Henry Cavill Rumored for ‘Key’ Marvel Role

The former Superman is being tipped as a big new recruit by Marvel, but the company has made no official announcement as of yet (not that it would!).

Henry Cavill is Agent Argylle in 'Argylle,' directed by Matthew Vaughn.

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Henry Cavill is the subject of new Marvel rumors.
Characters speculated include Doctor Doom and Captain Britain.
There has been zero official word yet.

Once upon a time, Justice League’.

But then it all seemed as though the “Snyderverse” was struck with a lump of Kryptonite and the films began to stumble.

There was a glimmer of hope for Cavill around the time of ‘Superman character), scuttled that.

It was doubly tough for Cavill, who had been given the go-ahead to tease more from his version and had quit successful The Witcher’ to focus on his big screen career.

Now, though, there are refreshed rumors that he might end up in that other big bastion of the superhero genre, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

What role could Henry Cavill take in the MCU?

Marvel Comics' Captain Britain. Photo: Marvel.

Speculation has swirled for a while that Cavill might end up making the leap to Marvel, but nothing concrete has landed so far.

He’s been linked to roles such as Captain Britain (as the name suggests, a UK take on Captain America), which we could see introduced ahead of the next Avengers team up.

Marvel Comics' Doctor Doom. Photo: Marvel.

And The Fantastic Four’ has led to renewed chatter about him playing Doctor Doom.

The current word comes from scooper MyTimeToShineHello on Twitter, who has shot down the Doom talk but points to Cavill accepting another role.

As always, we’ll have to wait and see whether this becomes anything more than talk.

What else is Henry Cavill working on?

Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix's 'The Witcher.' Photo: Jay Maidment.

Avowed nerd Cavill has been driving development of a live-action Prime Video service.

While that bubbles away in the background, he appeared in Apple’s deep pockets, would seem to preclude that for now, but we’ll wait and see on that front.

More promisingly, he’s leading the cast of Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ (due in theaters on April 19th) and his tongue-out moment in the trailer is already generating memes.

And beyond that, he may well pick up a sword again if/when Highlander’ starts shooting.

So even if Cavill doesn’t end up ing the MCU, he does at least have plenty to keep him occupied.