Noah Jupe will be the latest actor to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the  Hamnet  and  A Quiet Place  star tapped to play a top-secret role in  Avengers: Secret Wars. 

The superhero team-up movie, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and produced by Marvel chief Kevin Feige, is the follow-up to  Avengers: Doomsday.  That movie doesn't debut until Dec. 18, but production on  Secret Wars  is set to begin later this year (ahead of a Dec. 17, 2027 release date), kicking casting rumors into high gear.

Marvel had no comment on Jupe's casting.

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As a child actor, Jupe garnered attention for his standout turns in the TV series  The Night Manager  and  The Undoing,  before breaking out on the big screen with  Honey Boy  (for which he earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination) and the  Quiet Place  movies. The British actor recently appeared in Chloe Zhao's Oscar-winning film  Hamnet  alongside Paul Mescal, Jessie Buckley and his younger brother, Jacobi Jupe.

 Secret Wars  will likely reunite Jupe with his most recent co-star, Sadie Sink, who played the Juliet to his Romeo in a production of Shakespeare's classic on London's West End. Sink made her MCU debut as the mutant Jean Grey in July's  Spider-Man: Brand New Day  and will reprise her role in the forthcoming  X-Men  movie from Jake Schreier.

 Doomsday  follows as Marvel superheroes from three distinct universes - namely the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and several of Fox's O.G. X-Men - are set on a deadly collision course and face an existential threat unlike anything they've ever encountered: Victor Von Doom.

Marvel's new Big Bad is played by Robert Downey Jr., whose original  Avengers  character Tony Stark/Iron Man died in 2019's  Endgame.  The film features a sprawling cast of A-listers, including Chris Evans (returning as Steve Rogers), Chris Hemsworth, Pedro Pascal, Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie, Florence Pugh, Vanessa Kirby, Channing Tatum, Simu Liu, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Tom Hiddleston.

Not much has been revealed about  Secret Wars,  which is said to be even larger in scale than  Doomsday,  le

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