The Russo Brothers have been already engaged on a brand new mission with Robert Downey Jr. after they obtained the decision to return for Avengers: Doomsday.
The viewers at San Diego Comedian-Con obtained an enormous shock when not solely was it revealed that Joe and Anthony Russo would direct Avengers: Doomsday (and Avengers: Secret Wars) however that Robert Downey Jr. could be taking part in Physician Doom. Nonetheless, the Russo brothers advised GamesRadar+ that they’d already been engaged on one other mission with Downey Jr. earlier than they obtained the decision.
“We’re all very close,” Joe Russo stated. “We had been working on another project before Marvel approached all of us – so we’re working on another project with Robert – and there was a story that evolved through conversations that we got very excited about. Because it’s always got to be the story.” It’s unclear what this secret mission was, however maybe they’ll return to it as soon as they wrap up Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.
As for Avengers: Doomsday, all Joe Russo would say is that we are able to count on one thing “really explosive” with the film. “Why would we come again if we didn’t really feel like we had a narrative that had that risk of being on an equal footing with Infinity Struggle and Endgame except there’s a kernel there for an concept that’s actually explosive?“
Downey Jr. has beforehand defined that the Physician Doom prepare began rolling a few yr in the past when Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige sat down with the actor and his spouse and producing companion, Susan Downey. “Probably a year ago, because Feige and I have kept in touch,” Downey stated. “We’re buddies. Favreau and Feige and I’ve stored in contact. I’m shut with the Russo brothers. We now have different enterprise we’re doing. So there’s this little group of fellow vacationers, and I had this intuition that I needed to go to Bob Iger. And I had an concept, exterior of the cinematic universe, for a way I may very well be of service to what’s occurring within the parks and all their location-based vitality. And Susan and I have been sitting down with Feige at one level, and he stated, ‘It just keeps occurring to me that, if you were to come back…’ And Susan was like, ‘Wait, wait, come back as what?’“
Downey continued, “After which we each realized, over time, that it was one other factor that simply disproves any doubt anybody may ever have about that man. [He’s] a really subtle, artistic thinker about, ‘How can we not go backwards? How can we not disappoint expectations? How can we continue to to beat expectations?’ And he introduced up Victor von Doom, and I appeared into [the] character, and I used to be like, ‘Wow.’ And in a while, he goes, ‘Let’s get Victor von Doom proper. Let’s get that proper.’“
Avengers: Doomsday is slated for a Could 1, 2026 launch, adopted by Avengers: Secret Wars on Could 7, 2027.