Robert Downey Jr. is coming again to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in subsequent 12 months’s Avengers: Doomsday. It’s an enormous deal as a result of no single actor is as accountable for the success of the MCU as Downey. Had the unique Iron Man not been the success it was, we seemingly wouldn’t be right here right this moment, and it’s unbelievable that the film labored in addition to it did, contemplating they had been principally making it up as they went alongside.
Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark is completely one of many coolest characters within the MCU, and you’ll inform as a result of he’s typically carrying sun shades, an adjunct that he wears considerably greater than most of his Avengers buddies. It seems the explanation for the glasses, at the least in a single key scene, was as a lot for perform as style, as Downey as soon as informed Vainness Honest he wore them to cover the very fact he was studying his strains. Downey mentioned…
There’s a scene the place he’s doing a weapons take a look at, and he says, ‘Is it higher to be feared or revered? Is it an excessive amount of to ask for each?’ And Jon [Favreau] and I had been actually writing that, line for line, as we went alongside taking pictures it that day. And I placed on sun shades as a result of it was all on cue playing cards.
It’s unclear if Tony Stark’s penchant for sun shades was born solely from this scene, or not, or if the continued use of sun shades was executed for a similar purpose, however it actually wouldn’t be shocking. If Downey wasn’t initially going to be carrying sun shades in a scene that takes place on a vibrant sunny day within the desert, then why would he in so many different scenes?
I had by no means come throughout this clarification earlier than, and whereas all of it makes good sense, it’s additionally type of fascinating that this was one thing that wanted to be executed. For a franchise that may change into revolutionary for the best way that it appeared to place thought into creating connections between totally different characters and movies, the primary Iron Man wasn’t thought out prematurely in any respect.
It makes the success of the movie, in addition to the franchise that may comply with from it, all of the extra outstanding. The potential for making a misstep is definitely elevated if one doesn’t actually have a plan. Clearly, nonetheless, what Favreau and Downey knew they wished to make was precisely what it wanted to be. Downey continued…
It was that form of factor the place you go, ‘It’s extra essential that we really feel like we’re simply developing with this and we prefer it, and there’s no trick we are able to’t make use of to cowl the truth that we’re form of making it up as we go alongside.’
Contemplating the huge measurement of the Avengers: Doomsday forged, making up as they go alongside seemingly has not been an choice. Nonetheless, followers will probably be excited to see Robert Downey Jr. once more, though contemplating his Physician Doom masks, he’ll most likely skip the sun shades.