Robert Downey Jr. met for Doctor Doom in 2005’s Fantastic Four
Robert Downey Jr. was revealed at this yr’s Comic-Con to be taking part in Victor Von Doom in the upcoming Avengers, however the star practically performed him earlier than.
The tail-end of July has seen one thing of a defibrillator stunning some life again into Marvel. Not solely has the anticipated movie Deadpool & Wolverine turn out to be an enormous opening and sending followers dwelling with giddiness over some immensely deep cuts from the comedian ebook movie world, however Marvel Studios’ panel from Comic-Con has dropped some large upcoming information as properly. The largest reveal (which additionally appears to be type of a controversial one) was Robert Downey Jr.’s return to the MCU, this time as the long-lasting villain Doctor Doom in the subsequent Avengers entry, Doomsday.
World of Reel is now reporting that it was revealed in an uncovered interview between Kevin Feige and Jon Favreau that Downey Jr. had met with Feige to presumably play Doctor Doom in 2005’s Fantastic Four from twentieth Century Fox. Feige was a producer on that movie and as he and Favreau replicate on their first MCU movie Iron Man, Favreau says,
I keep in mind that Robert had come in for a common [meeting] on [Iron Man] and also you had already met with him for Doctor Doom or one thing.”
Favreau continued, “I think he had come through on Fantastic Four. So everybody knew who he was. I remember sitting down with the guy and I was like, ‘He’s got that spark in his eye and he’s ready.’ That’s when we were in your office and we were putting to his headshot and saying we’ve gotta try and figure this out [for Iron Man].”
The a part of Victor Von Doom would finally go to Julian McMahon, who was on the hit FX present Nip/Tuck on the time. McMahon would play Doctor Doom reverse the Fantastic Four forged that included Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Jessica Alba as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm/The Thing and a pre-Captain America Chris Evans as Johnny Storm/Human Torch. 2005’s Fantastic Four wouldn’t turn out to be the variation that followers have been hoping for, however the movie would turn out to be a success and warrant a sequel that introduced in The Silver Surfer together with Galactus.
Galactus will probably be making an look in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. However, Doctor Doom is often known as a villain that’s carefully tied with Marvel’s first household, so it’s potential we see a tie-in with Victor Von Doom previous to Doomsday, almost certainly in a post-credits scene.
