Robert Downey Jr. is returning to the MCU in a a lot much less heroic function than ordinary.
At San Diego Comic Con‘s Marvel panel in Corridor H on Saturday, the Russo Brothers and Marvel President Kevin Feige revealed Downey Jr. as Victor Von Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, the brand new title for Avengers 5. The Russos have been formally confirmed because the helmers of Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, that are scheduled to hit theaters in 2026 and 2027, respectively.
“Joe and I’ve come to doubtlessly see a street ahead with the largest story that Marvel comics ever instructed,” Anthony Russo stated about Secret Wars. “It is the primary comedian ebook run that I learn as a child that made me fall in love with comics.”
Nonetheless, to arrange “the magnitude of the filmmaking, the vastness of the storytelling, the world colliding epic-ness of all of this,” Anthony Russo revealed the “unimaginable potentialities within the Marvel multi-universe” and launched Downey Jr. as the person to take up the villain’s iconic masks and cloak.
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Simply introduced in Corridor H:
The Russo Brothers return to direct Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Physician Doom. Solely in theaters Could 2026. #SDCC pic.twitter.com/oqnSwWKnYn— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) July 28, 2024
Downey’s introduction as Tony Stark in 2008’s Iron Man kickstarted the MCU and rocketing the actor into the popular culture stratosphere. For over the last decade that adopted, he performed Stark in 10 Marvel titles: Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, The Unimaginable Hulk, The Avengers, Captian America: Civil Battle, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity Battle and Avengers: Endgame.
Downey Jr. has gone on the document not too long ago that he’d be open to returning to Marvel in some capability, however nobody had Victor Von Doom in thoughts. An epic casting announcement, to make sure, it’s going to be fascinating to see how the Russos arrange his introduction and inclusion in Marvel’s film canon shifting ahead.
“New masks, identical process,” Downey Jr. stated to a cheering crowd, including: “I like taking part in difficult characters.” And I feel it is protected to talk for everybody after I say, we like watching him do it.
