Anthony Mackie and Chris Evans spent five years making Marvel movies together as Sam Wilson/Falcon and Steve Rogers/Captain America. Their characters were close friends, with Steve bestowing the Captain America shield to Sam at the end of 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.

Those reports are "not true," the actor says. What do we really know about Marvel's upcoming Avengers: Doomsday? Really! First, Benedict Cumberbatch says he won't return as Doctor Strange, only to then immediately walk those comments back.

In Anthony Mackie’s new cover story for Esquire, Chris Evans revealed he told his Marvel co-star that he was the next Captain America in the MCU. “I inadvertently was the one who got to tell him that he was going to be Captain America. I didn’t know that he didn’t know,” Evans, 43, said in the story published Thursday.

“That’s not true, though,” Evans said when asked about the rumours. “This always happens. I mean, it happens every couple years—ever since Endgame. I’ve just stopped responding to it. Yeah, no—happily retired!”

Sorry folks, Chris Evans says he's not returning to Marvel for 'Avengers: Doomsday' and maybe never at all cause he's "happily retired."

Chris Evans and Anthony Mackie have a similar understanding of Captain America values, making them both worth of the MCU's shield.

Chris Evans is denying the reports claiming that he'll appear in Marvel Studios' Avengers: Doomsday. Evans has played Captain America/Steve Rogers in a number of MCU projects. His final outing as the character was seemingly in 2019's Avengers: Endgame;