Sebastian Stan says the Avengers Doomsday cast never worked from a full screenplay. In an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, he said Marvel kept him on scattered scenes instead, a secrecy tactic that leaves the film’s real shape hidden even from one of its own leads.
“Honestly, I have absolutely no idea because we didn't even have a script,” Stan said. “We were just shooting scattered scenes.” He added, “It's a different way of working, continuous, constantly evolving.”
Marvel's spoiler wall
Before the Cannes Film Festival in May, Stan said the producers did not want the cast to read the script in its entirety, “to avoid journalists asking us questions.” That is the practical logic behind the production method: keep the information fragmented, then let the film assemble in postproduction rather than on the page. An earlier cast reveal laid out four returning names, and Stan’s comments show how tightly Marvel has been holding the rest of the film together.
Anthony Russo and Joe Russo never gave Stan a completed version of the script, even though he will play Bucky once more in Avengers: Doomsday. That leaves the cast in an unusual position for a franchise film of this size: working in pieces, but still expected to protect the larger story from leaks.
Bucky, Doom, and the setup
Bucky is now part of the New Avengers after the events of Thunderbolts, so Stan’s return sits inside a broader reset rather than a standalone cameo. Robert Downey Jr. is set to play Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, and the film is said to unite the new Avengers, the original X-Men, the cast of Black Panther, Captain America, and the Fantastic Four against him.
The latest trailer teased history between Sue Storm, Reed Richards, and Victor Von Doom, while the teaser reveals that Doom has lost everything he loved. That kind of structure makes Marvel’s scattered-scene approach easier to understand: if the film is juggling multiple story lines and multiple generations of characters, a partial script keeps any one performer from seeing the full board.
On September 25, Marvel plans to re-release Endgame as Avengers: Endgame Encore, which suggests the company is still willing to use its older films to keep attention on the larger universe while withholding the clearest answers about Avengers: Doomsday. Stan’s line is the useful one here: he was in the cast, but he still had no idea what to expect. That is not a production footnote; it is the production model.
