‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ Casts Noah Jupe in Secret Role

Avengers: Doomsday is just a few months away, but Avengers; Secret Wars is just about to start shooting — and Deadline reports the film is still adding new actors despite its massive cast returning Doomsday.Per their sources, Noah Jupe has been “tapped for a secret role in the upcoming pic which is set to go into production later this year.” (Marvel had no comment in Deadline’s report.)Jupe recently appeared in Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet, and he just starred on the West End opposite new X-Man Sadie Sink in a well-received production of Romeo & Juliet.Getty ImagesGetty ImagesREAD MORE: Every Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies, Ranked From Worst to BestSo who is Jupe playing? I’ll throw out two potential roles for him off the top of my head. One is an older version of Franklin Richards, the son of Reed and Sue of the Fantastic Four. Although Franklin was still a little kid in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the multiversal shenanigans of Doomsday and Secret Wars could allow for alternate versions or time jumps in the films — remember how Avengers: Endgame jumped five years into the future? — which could allow for an older Franklin to appear in Secret Wars. And Franklin did play an import...