Benedict Cumberbatch says he was wrong about Doctor Strange not appearing in the next 'Avengers' movie: 'Don't ever believe anything I say'

• Benedict Cumberbatch told Variety he won't be in the next "Avengers" movie, but now he's saying he was wrong.
• Cumberbatch might be joking; Marvel stars love to play coy with the press to avoid spoilers.
• He next stars as a grieving father in "The Thing With Feathers," which just premiered at Sundance.

Marvel fans already knew they hadn't seen the last of Doctor Strange, but we might be getting more of him sooner than we thought — at least if Benedict Cumberbatch's latest comments are to be believed.

On the red carpet for the premiere of his new film "The Thing With Feathers" at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Business Insider asked Cumberbatch about his recent Variety interview, in which it seemed he had accidentally spilled the beans that his MCU hero Doctor Strange wouldn't be appearing in the upcoming "Avengers: Doomsday," out next year.

"I got that wrong, I am in the next one," Cumberbatch told BI when asked if he'd gotten any sternly worded emails from the notoriously spoiler-averse Marvel team as a result of his previous comments.

When I pointed out that other Marvel stars have straight-up lied about their involvement in certain movies before (like Cumberbatch's "Spider-Man: No Way Home costar Andrew Garfield, who gleefully kept secret one of the most satisfying MCU cameos ever), Cumberbatch quickly played coy once again: "Don't ever believe anything I say," he said with a smirk.

Reps for the film did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

The film, which will see the surprising return of "Iron Man" star Robert Downey Jr. in a new role as the villainous Doctor Doom, marks the beginning of the next chapter in the MCU, based on the "Secret Wars" saga from the comics.

In his Variety interview, Cumberbatch said Doctor Strange is "in a lot" of "Avengers: Secret Wars," the 2027 sequel coming out after "Doomsday." (Both are being directed by returning Marvel filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo, who directed the last two "Avengers" movies.)

In the meantime, Cumberbatch can next be seen in writer-director Dylan Southern's "The Thing With Feathers," a darkly comic horror film where he plays a man grieving the sudden death of his wife, leaving him a single father to two young sons. Cumberbatch's character, simply called Dad, spirals into despair and encounters an anthropomorphic giant crow, a seemingly malevolent creature that accompanies the family through their grief journey.

Southern called the film a "passion project" for both him and Cumberbatch, who also produces.

Though it's quite a different role from the Marvel sorcerer who made him an international star, Southern said Cumberbatch put his signature no-holds-barred work ethic into the performance, which required him to go to some dark emotional places.

"It was mesmerizing to watch," Southern told BI. "He really went there."

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