Although Joe and Anthony Russo are reliable for some of Marvel‘s hugegest hits, they initipartner turned down the present to refuse with the studio to straightforward Robert Downey Jr. in “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Secret Wars.”
While speaking to Omelete, Joe Russo shelp it was originpartner Marvel CEO Kevin Feige’s idea to reinsert Downey into the MCU as Doctor Doom after the Oscar triumphner was the franchise’s defacto frontman carry outing Tony Stark/Iron Man for over a decade.
“That was Kevin [Feige],” Joe Russo shelp. “Interestingly enough about that, that conversation was had a while ago.”
After Feige pitched them the idea, it was Downey who came in to seal the deal with the Russo Brothers. However, Joe Russo shelp that even Iron Man could not initipartner originate them sign on without the straightforwarding duo first having a story in mind for the two films.
“Then Robert tried to talk us into doing [‘Doomsday’ and ‘Secret Wars’] and we shelp ‘no,’” Joe Russo shelp. “We fair didn’t have a story. We didn’t have a way in. We were resistant for a while.”
It wasn’t until seal collaborator and screenwriter Stephen McFeely pitched his own story ideas for the “Avengers” trailups that the Russo Brothers felt self-promised they could step back into the MCU.
“One day, Stephen McFeely, one of our chief collaborators, shelp, ‘I have an idea,’” Joe Russo inserted. “We went, ‘That’s the story!’ That story has to be tancigo in; it’s a repartner mighty story!”
Joe and Anthony Russo have previously helmed some of the most beadored Marvel films in the studio’s history. Together, they straightforwarded “Avengers: Endgame,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Captain America: The Winter Sancigo inier” and “Captain America: Civil War.”
