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Robert Downey Jr. was within the working for 'Unbelievable 4' earlier than he was solid in 'Iron Man,' Marvel director Jon Favreau says

  • Robert Downey Jr. was almost solid in “Unbelievable 4,” Marvel director and star Jon Favreau says.
  • Favreau made the revelation throughout a dialog with Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. 
  • He additionally credited Downey Jr. with serving to others, akin to Gwyneth Paltrow, signal onto the venture.

The director of “Iron Man” says that Robert Downey Jr. was initially auditioning for a job in “Unbelievable 4” previous to being solid as Tony Stark within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

Jon Favreau, who additionally performed the function of Stark’s chauffeur and private assistant Comfortable Hogan, made the revelation throughout a current sit-down dialog with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. In a video posted to Marvel Leisure’s YouTube channel, the pair reminisced on the “Iron Man” movie’s origin story in honor of its fifteenth anniversary. 

The primary “Iron Man” was launched in 2008, kicking of the beginning of the MCU as followers understand it at present. 

 

Across the four-minute mark of the 21-minute dialog, Favreau and Feige ruminate on how casting Downey Jr. for the function modified all the things about manufacturing — and for the higher, they are saying. 

Feige mentioned that they had been contemplating “another folks,” however that Downey Jr. was the clear selection, to which Favreau mentioned he knew the actor was being thought-about for one more superhero function previous to “Iron Man.”

“I keep in mind that Robert had are available in for a common on it and I keep in mind you had all met with him already for like Physician Doom or one thing, on one other venture,” Favreau mentioned.

“I believe he had come via on ‘Unbelievable 4,’ so all people type of knew who he was,” he added. “I keep in mind sitting down with the man and I used to be like ‘Jeez, he is simply bought it in him, he is bought that spark in him in his eye and he is prepared.'”

Michael Chiklis, Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, and Chris Evans in "Fantastic Four."

Michael Chiklis, Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, and Chris Evans in “Unbelievable 4.”

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After their preliminary assembly, Favreau mentioned he recalled discussing the actors who’d auditioned with Feige in his workplace — and each knew there was one thing particular about Downey Jr..

“We had been pointing to his headshot and saying ‘We gotta attempt to determine this out,'” he mentioned. 

As soon as they locked in Downey Jr., all the things else match into place, Favreau continued. “That is when my life bought rather a lot simpler as a result of A, he understood the voice of the character after which one after the other folks had been simply signing onboard as a result of now it grew to become one thing attention-grabbing.”

He went on to say that castmembers akin to Gwyneth Paltrow, who performed Stark’s love curiosity Pepper Potts, and Jeff Bridges, who performed the movie’s villain Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger, signed on.

“All of it galvanized at that time,” he added. 

Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau talking on the set of Iron Man

Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau on the set of “Iron Man.”

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From there, Feige mentioned he remembers Favreau with the ability to breathe a sigh of reduction and saying he might now “simply make the film.”

When it got here all the way down to it, Feige credited Downey Jr. with the following success of Marvel Studios, which has gone on to provide 42 movies.

“We would not be on this mess if it wasn’t for you,” Feige mentioned, recalling what he would say to Downey Jr. on “darkish days” whereas working films afterward. “We would not have a studio if it wasn’t for him.”