The directors worked with the 59-year-old actor in several entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and his character was killed off at the end of the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame.
Robert Downey Jr. has expressed interest in reprising his role as Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Which presents a problem, since he died at the end of Avengers: Endgame. Speaking with GamesRadar at the Sands: International Film Festival, the film’s directors, Joe and Anthony Russo, seemed baffled at the notion of a Downey […]
Avengers: Endgame just recently celebrated it’s fifth anniversary and the film’s directors Joe and Anthony Russo have expressed skepticism about Robert Downey Jr.’s recent comments suggesting he would be open to reprising his role as Iron Man in the MCU. Earlier this month, Downey Jr. told Esquire magazine that he would happily suit up as
Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. recently said that he’d “Happily” play Tony Stark again in the MCU. He explained “It’s too integral a part of my DNA. That role chose...
HBO’s The Sympathizer enters the television lineup with two strikes against it. In the first place, the limited series’s 2015 source novel, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, was among the worst Pulitzer Prize winners in recent memory, a geopolitical navel-gazer that “thrilled” flattering book critics’ voguish anti-Westernism. In the second, the show’s conceit has already been […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he has qualified for California’s presidential election ballot, giving his candidacy a long-shot chance at collecting 54 electoral votes this fall. If his spot on the ballot is certified by the California secretary of state, which could happen in August, Kennedy would represent the American Independent Party. The secretary of state’s office confirmed to The Times that Kennedy’s candidacy had been submitted by the party. The party has a controversial...
On the third episode of The Sympathizer—HBO’s buzzy, A24-produced adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Viet Thanh Nguyen novel—Hoa Xuande’s protagonist, known only as the Captain, finds himself seated at a steakhouse table across from four wildly different men all played by Robert Downey Jr. It’s perhaps the most ambitious and mind-warping scene yet from the dense, twisty series—one that feels right in line with the thrilling visual language of master filmmaker Park Chan-wook, who helmed...
Robert Downey Jr. called it “mind-blowing” to see Jeremy Renner up on his feet and celebrating at Chris Evans‘ wedding last September. The Captain America actor tied the knot with Alba Baptista in a private ceremony in Cape Cod, Mass., and was surrounded by his longtime Marvel co-stars. Renner was hospitalized at the start of […]
Robert Downey Jr is synonymous with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For more than a decade and nine action movies, he played Iron Man, the series unofficial mascot, but he very nearly played another armoured Marvel character, the villainous Doctor Doom. Continue reading Robert Downey Jr nearly played Doctor Doom in a Fantastic Four movie MORE FROM THE DIGITAL FIX: Upcoming Marvel movies, Marvel movies in order, Marvel series...
A Florida man said his custom car was stolen while he was asleep on Monday, and the vehicle contained something irreplaceable: his mother’s ashes.
In Park Chan-wook's series adaptation, lead star Hoa Xuande engages veteran actor Robert Downey Jr., who dazzlingly plays multiple characters – a filmmaker, a CIA operative, a professor, and a congressman in their scenes together
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is challenging Donald Trump to a debate, and the former president is calling him a “Democrat plant.”