If there’s one factor comedian e book followers can agree on, it’s that simply because a character is dead doesn’t imply they’ll’t return for extra adventures. There might be a prequel, a miraculous resurrection, a model from one other universe… there’s no restrict, actually. So when Robert Downey Jr. begins speaking about possibly playing Tony Stark once more, it’s value paying consideration.
Iron Man kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we now comprehend it in early Could 2008; Downey’s portrayal of the character immediately made him a fan favourite, one thing that carried by way of 10 Iron Man, Avengers, and Avengers-adjacent motion pictures. That each one resulted in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, when Iron Man sacrificed himself to save lots of everybody from Thanos. There was a funeral and all the things! However 5 years on—and 16 years after first taking part in the character—Downey, who simply picked up an Oscar for Oppenheimer, says he’s not ruling out a return.
Chatting with Esquire (through Deadline), the actor was requested if he’d ever put Stark’s high-tech armor on once more to deliver the character again. “Fortunately. It’s too integral part of my DNA. That position selected me,” he mentioned, earlier than shouting out the top of Marvel Studios. “And look, I at all times say, By no means, ever wager towards Kevin Feige. It’s a dropping wager. He’s the home. He’ll at all times win.”
With Marvel presently in a state of figuring out its own future after some current bumps in the blockbuster road, possibly determining a option to deliver again certainly one of its most beloved heroes—something that’s been part of rumors in the past—would make sense. What do you suppose: would you wish to see Downey return to the MCU?
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