OT Robert Downey Jr Returns To The MCU...

[Chris Craig]

As Dr Victor Von Doom

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/...or-von-doom-avengers-doomsday-1236088170/amp/

 

[PCmor7]

I'll wait to see what they do with this, but I'm hoping it's some kind of fake-out. My initial reaction was displeasure.

First, Majors' legal issues aside, I thought they should have just recast Kang. If there's any character that can be recast in the Marvel Universe, it's Kang. It's a great villain and I hate to see them abandon him that quickly.

Doom, obviously, is maybe the best villain in Marvel's rogue's gallery, and I'm apprehensive about him being thrown in this way, changing horses in mid-stream.

The irony that they are recasting Iron Man as Dr. Doom because they didn't recast Kang is king of amusing.

 

[Chris Craig]

I'll wait to see what they do with this, but I'm hoping it's some kind of fake-out. My initial reaction was displeasure.

First, Majors' legal issues aside, I thought they should have just recast Kang. If there's any character that can be recast in the Marvel Universe, it's Kang. It's a great villain and I hate to see them abandon him that quickly.

Doom, obviously, is maybe the best villain in Marvel's rogue's gallery, and I'm apprehensive about him being thrown in this way, changing horses in mid-stream.

The irony that they are recasting Iron Man as Dr. Doom because they didn't recast Kang is king of amusing.

Same. I find it to be a very strange revelation. Robert Downey Jr is Tony Stark. It's going to be very strange and maybe impossible to see him as another character, especially Doom, seeing as he is the foundation of the Avengers.

I agree they should have just recast Kang. Have the "real" Kang be another variant. Looking different wouldn't have mattered if they wrote it well. It makes no sense to just abandon the story line with all the build up.

It's pretty ironic. A big announcement to make people forget about Kang? Who needs Kang, RDJ is back. I wonder if they will have Von Doom be from a different part of the multiverse. In our world he stayed Tony Stark and used his knowledge for good. In this other world he became evil and took up the name Victor Von Doom. Otherwise I don't see how they are going to do it. He's just too high profile. It's going to mess with viewers heads. They whole time they are going to be like, nope not buying it, that's Tony Stark.

 

[Phatguysrule]

I'm caring less and less about this franchise the longer this continues.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[Chris Craig]

I'm a dude playing the dude, disguised as another dude!

 

[Everything Beagle]

I'm caring less and less about this franchise the longer this continues.

I lost all interest after Endgame. I think the first spiderman film was the last MCU movie I watched. I might catch GotG3, someday, but other than that... meh.

 

[julius]

Someone explain to me how Tony Stark can be Dr Doom, and explain it in a way that even @THE HCP could understand.

 

[PCmor7]

Marvel's done a couple of stories where Dr. Doom ends up as Tony Stark or some variation of that. I think the one was in the second Civil War story, Iron Man is killed and Doom becomes Iron Man for some reason. Another was an alternate reality where Doom switched bodies with Stark. I've heard Feige's using one or the other of those as a template. I don't find either option appealing.

 

[PDXFonz]

RDJ is a good actor, but I agree that it’s weird casting Iron Man as Victor Von Doom

 

[Chris Craig]

RDJ is a good actor, but I agree that it’s weird casting Iron Man as Victor Von Doom

He's an Oscar winning actor. He really puts himself in his characters. I think he has the capability to play Doom far different than Stark. The question is whether they are going to be two very separate characters or whether they are just variants of each other and Dooms mannerisms and quips will be much like Starks? If it's the latter, it's going to be hard to separate the two characters in viewers minds. I don't want to be stuck on nope that's Tony Stark the whole time, and have it ruin the movie.

 

[PDXFonz]

Marvel's done a couple of stories where Dr. Doom ends up as Tony Stark or some variation of that. I think the one was in the second Civil War story, Iron Man is killed and Doom becomes Iron Man for some reason. Another was an alternate reality where Doom switched bodies with Stark. I've heard Feige's using one or the other of those as a template. I don't find either option appealing.

This would make sense, and I could see it. I'd guess that anything to get RDJ to return to the MCU would be done by the writers seeing how he was really the individual who got that Franchise going with his portrayal of Tony Stark.

Agree with it or not, it will increase and perhaps revitalize interest in the MCU.

 

[Sheldon Shape]

Weird to see people still watching MCU stuff if they aren't children. It's so generic and vanilla. I'm more of a Nolan/Snyder DC guy. Hell, I'm excited for Joker 2.

 

[Chris Craig]

Weird to see people still watching MCU stuff if they aren't children. It's so generic and vanilla. I'm more of a Nolan/Snyder DC guy. Hell, I'm excited for Joker 2.

Nolan's movies are still the best of the DC movies so far. Too bad he ended the story after three films.

I like Snyder's take on DC. It's gritty and dark akin to Nolan. I would have like to have seen him do a Batman movie. The Batman movie series with Pattison isn't on par.

Not sure how Guns new DC is going to look. Batman brave and the bold is going to be strange. The Superman movie is going to be straight out of the comics. While I like the softer tone of Christopher Reeves' Superman, Synders Man of Steel was the best representation of Supes to date. It felt more realistic and I enjoyed the more serious tone. Made the drama and the action better. There are more stakes. We see how people would really react...calling him a god and hating him for it...bring freaked out a bit.

Gun did a hell of a job with Guardians and a pretty good job remaking Suicide Squad so, trying to give him a chance.