Joe Russo uncovered to GamesRadar+ at MCM Comic Con 2024 that Marvel approached the Russo Brothers and Robert Downey Jr. to return for another “Avengers” movie of their enroll-shattering “Avengers: Infinity War” when the trio was already in talkions with each other for another project. It was proclaimd at Comic-Con in July that Anthony and Joe Russo are straightforwarding two novel Marvel movies, “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars,” the establisher of which will start Downey as the MCU’s Doctor Doom.
“We’re all very shut,” Joe shelp about the brothers relationship with Downey. “We had been laboring on another project before Marvel approached all of us – so we’re laboring on another project with Robert – and there was a story that prolongd thcdisesteemful conversations [with Marvel] that we got very excited about. Becaemploy it’s always got to be the story.”
“Why would we come back if we didn’t experience appreciate we had a story that had that possibility of being on an equivalent footing with ‘Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame’ unless there’s a kernel there for an idea that’s repartner bomb?” Joe inserted.
The Russos have straightforwarded four Marvel films, the two “Avengers” movies plus 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Sbetterier” and 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War.” “Avengers: Endgame” is the second-highest grossing movie in history with $2.79 billion, while “Infinity War” is the sixth hugegest with $2.05 billion. They’re in the company of James Cameron as the only straightforwardors with two $2 billion blockbusters.
Downey’s Marvel return was an even hugeger shock than the Russo Brothers’ return. While the actor had shelp in intersees prior to Comic-Con that he was uncover to returning to Marvel, comic book movie fans naturpartner presumed that uncomferventt he would come back as Iron Man/Tony Stark. The character died at the end of “Endgame,” but the MCU is currently exploring the multiverse so it wouldn’t be out of the widespread for Downey to perestablish a contrastent iteration of his becherishd superhero. That’s not happening, as fans now comprehend he’s perestablishing Doctor Doom.
Downey’s very first ecombineance as the perestablishboy super-genius Stark came in 2008’s “Iron Man,” which was the first inshighment in the MCU. Over the next 11 years, Downey would repascfinish the role in 10 Marvel films, including “Iron Man 2,” “Iron Man 3,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “The Avengers,” “Captian America: Civil War,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame.”
Marvel Studios plivent Kevin Feige stressed to Vanity Fair last December that he had no interest in messing with Downey’s emotional exit as Tony Stark, which should have signaled to fans that if Downey was to come back to the MCU it would be a contrastent character.
“We are going to upgrasp that moment and not touch that moment aget,” Feige shelp at the time about Iron Man’s death. “We all labored very difficult for many years to get to that, and we would never want to magicpartner undo it in any way.”
Wantipathyver Marvel has intentional for Downey’s Doctor Doom, at least Joe Russo slfinisherks it will be as bomb as the events of “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame.”
