Robert Downey Jr. is stepping out for the premiere of his new Max series!
29.05.2023 - 00:31 / deadline.com
When you hear the name Tony Stark the actor that comes to mind is Robert Downey Jr. as he played him in the MCU starting with 2008’s Iron Man. However, Downey was not always going to play the billionaire philanthropist and was in talks to play a whole different character.
“I remember you had all met with [Downey] already for like Doctor Doom or something on another project,” director Jon Favreau said in a conversation with Marvel boss Kevin Feige. “I think he had come through on maybe Fantastic Four, so everybody sort of knew who he was.”
Favreau and Feige sat down for a retrospective look at the film that started the MCU 15 years ago.
Victor Von Doom was ultimately portrayed by Nip/Tuck star Julian McMahon in the 2005 film. For Favreau, casting Downey in Iron Man was the component that was missing that made the film work.
“He was the puzzle piece that made it all work,” Favreau said. “I remember sitting down with the guy, and I was like, ‘He’s got that spark in him in his eye and he’s ready.’ That’s when we were in your office, and we were pointing to his headshot, saying, ‘We got to try to figure this out.'”
Favreau continued, “Once it was him, that’s when my life got a lot easier because he understood. He understood the voice of the character. And then one by one, people were just signing on board because now it became something interesting.”
Feige noted that the “tone that you and Robert discovered on that movie, I would say became the template in a way for much of what the MCU became.”
“I remember on later movies – we’ll talk about them on the 15th anniversary of those – there were dark days. And I would say to Robert, ‘We wouldn’t be in this mess if it wasn’t for you.’ Meaning, we wouldn’t have a studio if it
Robert Downey Jr. is stepping out for the premiere of his new Max series!
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While it will definitely (as Kevin Feige so eloquently puts it in the same discussion below) go down as one of the best decisions in Hollywood history, there has already been so much written about Robert Downey, Jr. being cast as Tony Stark in 2008’s “Iron Man.” However, in a new interview with Feige and filmmaker Jon Favreau, it’s revealed that RDJ could have shown up in a Marvel film years before his “Iron Man” debut.
Iron Man director Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr. was initially considered for a different role in the film that kickstarted the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Downey first starred as Iron Man (aka Tony Stark) in the titular 2008 film, and went on to reprise the role in a further nine MCU entries, including two direct sequels to Iron Man (released in 2010 and 2013, respectively).
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