As I predicted on Twitter earlier in the month, Marvel Studios’ big announcements at their Hall H panel for San Diego Comic-Con featured the confirmation that The Russo Brothers would be helming the ship for “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” alongside the casting of the new big bad.
Marvel surprised Comic-Con audiences and fans online that Oscar-winner Robert Downey Jr. (“Oppenheimer”) would be making his grand return to the MCU in the Doctor Doom role. We’ll now see RDJ’s take on Victor von Doom in both “Avengers: Doomsday” (an obvious title referring to Doctor Doom being the main villain) and “Avengers: Secret Wars.”
Given that Matt Shakman‘s “Fantastic Four” reboot (starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Julia Garner, Ralph Ineson, Paul Walter Hauser, and Natasha Lyonne) has just begun filming in London at Pinewood Studios UK and going to be part of the next two “Avengers” installments, there is an expectation that Robert could be first showing up there as Doom, too, although, its unconfirmed.
There has been a bit of a mixed reaction seeing such a high-profile Marvel actor returning after playing Tony Stark/Iron Man, instead of a new person being cast. We’ll see if the choice was ultimately made for a creative/narrative reason or simply a way to bank hard on using the Multiverse to mine audience nostalgia like they’ve done with massive hits using the Multiverse gimmick to bring back established Marvel actors like with “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
SOURCE: MARVEL STUDIOS
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