Robert Downey Jr. has revealed that conversations about his Marvel return to play Physician Doom began a 12 months in the past.
The 59-year-old actor left the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) after Iron Man died in 2019’s ‘Avengers: Endgame’, however has been confirmed to return to the franchise because the Implausible 4 villain in Joe and Anthony Russo’s upcoming movies ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’, and has now detailed the story of how Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige pitched the brand new function to him and his spouse Susan Downey.
Throughout an look on ‘The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter’ podcast, he recalled: “Susan and I had been sitting down with Feige at one level, and he mentioned, ‘It simply retains occurring to me that, if you happen to had been to come back again…’ And Susan was like, ‘Wait, wait, come again as what?’
“After which we each realized, over time, that it was one other factor that simply disproves any doubt anybody may ever have about that man.
“[Feige is] a really subtle, inventive thinker about, ‘How can we not go backwards? How can we not disappoint expectations? How can we proceed to beat expectations?’
“And he introduced up Victor von Doom, and I regarded into [the] character, and I used to be like, ‘Wow.’ And in a while, he goes, ‘Let’s get Victor von Doom proper. Let’s get that proper.’”
After the actor realised he needed to play the villain, Downey Jr. and Feige went to Disney CEO Bob Iger’s home to pitch the concept and located that the manager was an enormous fan of the plans.
The ‘Oppenheimer’ star recounted: “So then I mentioned to Kevin, ‘Can I’m going discuss to Bob Iger?’ He goes, ‘About?’ I’m going, ‘About every thing.’
“We go to Iger’s pad, and we sit down and begin saying, ‘I simply actually need to be…’ He goes, ‘I prefer it.’ I used to be like, ‘He likes it.’
“He goes, ‘Come by the Imagineering campus.’ Feige and I’m going to the Imagineering campus and — you need to discuss two guys that aren’t straightforward to have their minds blown, not to mention on the similar time.
“I am unable to say an excessive amount of about it, however what’s going on there proper now’s so past my expectation of what was doable.”
