![]() ![]() Despite all the negativity and wariness surrounding the suggestion, however, the director didn’t take “no” for an answer and instead made it his responsibility to show the people at Marvel Studios that he knew exactly which actor he wanted to play the starring role. in the lead role and was rejected multiple times. during a recent interview with the Texas radio station 100.3 Jack FM, and revealed to the hosts that while Iron Man he brought up the idea of casting Downey Jr. convince Marvel Studios to cast him as the centerpiece of the newly created Marvel Cinematic Universe? Jon Favreau, that’s how.įavreau, the Swingers star who would go onto direct Iron Man and Iron Man 2 - says he knew RDJ was the right man for the role and fought the studio tooth and nail for the casting to happen.įavreau opened up about casting Robert Downey Jr. That question was answered with aplomb in 2008, as he would go onto star in two career-defining films: his Academy Award-nominated turn in Tropic Thunder, and, of course, as Tony Stark in Iron Man. was a working actor again, but the question then became whether or not he could truly reignite his A-list career and become the movie star he once looked destined to be. In the coming years, Downey would continue to inch back into the mainstream, as he’d go onto star in critically-acclaimed films such as Good Night, and Good Luck, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints (an awesome movie that I suggest you check out), A Scanner Darkly, and Zodiac.ĭowney Jr. Gibson, who was a close friend of Downey’s since the pair starred in Air America, paid Downey’s insurance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective, paving the way for him to be cast in Gothika alongside Halle Berry, although 40% of his pay was withheld until filming wrapped.įrom there, the career comeback was officially full steam ahead, as Downey was then cast to star alongside Val Kilmer in the cult black comedy crime hit Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which was the directorial debut of famed screenwriter Shane Black (who, as fate would have it, would go on to direct Iron Man 3). And yet, despite his proven and obviously immense talent, the Academy Award nominee found it difficult to secure acting jobs, as production studios were unable to obtain insurance for the troubled actor, thus making hiring him all the more difficult.Ĭoincidentally enough, Downey’s breakthrough back into the industry would come thanks to an actor would go onto to disgrace himself in the coming years: Mel Gibson. got clean and was ready to begin working again. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.Finally, though, after what would prove to be his last arrest in April 2001, Downey Jr. ad-lib), and he’ll be back front and center in next year’s still-untitled “Avengers 4.” Head over to Deadline to read Feige’s entire interview on the original “Iron Man’s” 10th anniversary. reprised his role as Iron Man most recently in this summer’s “Avengers: Infinity War” (which included another Downey Jr. ![]() They expect us to be inspired by the comics as opposed to being slavishly devoted to them.”ĭowney Jr. “What I love now - 20 movies in - is how fans expect the MCU to change and adapt. “I think it did inspire us on all the movies,” Feige said. Tony Stark not reading off the card and not sticking with the fixed story? Him just blurting out ‘I am Iron Man?’ That seems very much in keeping with who that character is.”įeige said he felt comfortable not removing Downey Jr.’s ad-lib because “it was something very much in keeping with the comics character and what he could have done.” “If you’re changing something for no reason, that’s one thing, but if you’re changing something because you want to double-down on the spirit of who the character is? That’s a change we’ll make. When “Thor” came to the big screen, for instance, he did so without his decades-long secret identity Dr. ![]() Fans embraced the reveal, which encouraged Feige to be open to taking chances on future projects. “That success inspired us to go further in the trusting ourselves to find balance of staying true to the comics and the spirit of the comics but not being afraid to adapt and evolve and to change things,” Feige said, alluding to how in the comic books it took several years for Stark to finally go public with his real identity. ![]()
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