Here’s how Robert Downey Jr. was picked to play Doctor Doom
The concept of Robert Downey Jr. as the baddie Victor Von Doom goes way back to before the star was ever cast as the superhero Iron Man’s alter ego
- LOS ANGELES — The concept of Robert
Downey Jr. as the baddie Victor Von Doom goes way back to before the star was
ever cast as the superhero Iron Man’s alter ego.
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- Joe Russo, who is directing the next two Avengers movies
with his brother Anthony, recently revealed who had the genius idea to bring
Downey back as the Fantastic Four villain. It was
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- none other than Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige.
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- “That was Kevin,” the younger Russo recently told the
online outlet Omelete, reports deadline.com.
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- “Interestingly enough about that, that conversation was
had a while ago.”
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- Victor Von Doom was ultimately portrayed in the 2005 film
by actor Julian McMahon and Downey went on to debut as Stark in 2008’s Iron
Man, but Feige held onto the idea of casting Downey as Doom.
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- This time around, once Downey agreed, the actor tried to
talk his Avengers: Endgame directors into getting the band back together for
the upcoming Avengers: Secret Wars and Avengers: Doomsday. The duo demurred at
first, according to Joe.
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- “Robert tried to talk us into doing it and we said ‘no.’
We just didn’t have a story. We didn’t have a way in. We were resistant for a
while.”
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- The brothers did eventually spark to a concept.
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- “One day Steve McFeely, one of our chief collaborators,
said, ‘I have an idea.’ We went, ‘That’s the story!’ That story has to be told.
It’s a really powerful story.”
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- The directors would divulge much until Joe offered: “The
only thing I will say about the movie is this: We love villains who think
they’re the hero of their own stories. That’s when they become three
dimensional and they become more interesting.”
