From convict to the most popular Marvel character, Robert Downey Junior is back for more. At the San Diego Comic-Con this year, Marvel announced that he is back and is going to play the infamous character Doctor Doom in the next Avengers movies, “Avengers Doomsday” and “Avengers Secret Wars”. According to Forbes, moments after his unveiling, people went on social media and started posting about it. Some people were not happy with it, and some people were “praising the casting and calling it “genius “.” There is also excitement from the fans about the directors of the movies, Anthony and Joseph Russo, because the fans have faith in them and their ability to create a hit movie because of their last success, “Avengers Endgame”. People were also shocked because of the way Downey Jr. left things after that movie. At the end of Endgame, his character died after defeating Thanos, a tyrant, who wanted to destroy the universe and remake his own with him as the leader. After the excitement from the movie was over, he came out and said that he was done and that he was not going to play Iron Man again. Based on the article by Forbes, in 2023, Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios, said that they were not confident in “leaving the future of the films in somebody who famously had these legal troubles in the past.” Since RDJ’s absence in marvel movies, many fans have stated that Marvel itself has not been the same, which is the reason for the excitement from Marvel fans. In the time he was gone, there were many shows and movies released. Some of these include “The Marvels”, “Secret Invasion”, “Black Widow”, and “Hawkeye”. These are just some of the shows and movies that did not do well since RDJ has been gone. Up until this summer when the third movie in the Deadpool trilogy, “Deadpool and Wolverine” came out, Marvel was feeling a lull in their production. Deadpool three almost starred RDJ as a different version of Iron Man, but he denied Ryan Reynolds’ and Hugh Jackman’s multiple attempts to get him to come back. Him denying this role was most likely because he knew that he was going to be revealed as Doctor Doom soon after the movie was released. In conclusion, Robert Downey Jr.’s return to Marvel is definitely going to rebuild the franchise.
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Iron Man actor returns as Dr. Doom in new Marvel movie
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