Everybody has been asking Robert Downey Jr. to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And now he’s … however not as Iron Man.
At their huge San Diego Comedian-Con panel, Marvel Studios confirmed that the subsequent movie within the Avengers franchise is Avengers: Doomsday — the Avengers (and the Improbable 4, apparently) versus Physician Doom. And taking part in Physician Doom within the movie is … none apart from Robert Downey Jr.
You possibly can see (and listen to) the response to Downey’s reveal beneath.
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Downey will not be the one individual returning for Avengers 5 both. Marvel confirmed on the panel that Joe and Anthony Russo — the administrators of Avengers: Infinity Conflict and Avengers: Endgame — will likely be returning to direct each Avengers: Doomsday and its sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars.
The information marks a radical change of plans for the movie from what Marvel initially supposed. Marvel formally introduced Avengers 5 two years in the past, at San Diego Comedian-Con 2022. At the moment, the movie was dubbed Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, indicating that the film would deal with the time-traveling villain Kang, performed by Jonathan Majors.
However then Majors bought in bother with the legislation, and was fired by Marvel in December of 2023. Marvel quietly dropped The Kang Dynasty subtitle from the movie and started merely referring to the movie informally as Avengers 5. Throughout this era, the movie additionally misplaced its authentic director, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Destin Daniel Cretton. Clearly, it’s a wholly totally different mission now.
Avengers: Doomsday is scheduled for launch on Could 1, 2026. Avengers: Secert Wars is scheduled to observe on Could 7, 2027. (It might be value noting that within the Secret Wars comics of some years in the past, the primary villain is … Physician Doom.) I think that persons are all of the sudden going to be much more focused on each of those movies.
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