Chris Evans turned down a Nomad movie and "dozens" of Marvel pitches since Avengers: Endgame, and only said yes when he heard Robert Downey Jr. was coming back

Chris Evans has opened up about why he has returned for Avengers: Doomsday, admitting he turned down "dozens" of pitches from Marvel over the past eight years. "When we finished Endgame in 2018, Lou [D’Esposito] and Kevin [Feige] took me to dinner and they were like, 'We’d love to keep doing movies with Steve Rogers as Nomad,'" Evans told Entertainment Weekly after the Marvel SDCC 2026 panel. "And I said, 'Okay, well, what do you got?' They showed me a pitch, and it was a great pitch, but for whatever reason, it just didn't feel right at the time. It was also announced that a Ghost Rider movie with Ryan Gosling is happening and that David Jonsson is joining the cast of Black Panther 3.