And the story of Iron Man was really the story of Robert’s career.”īut what is the story of Robert’s career? Robert Downey Jr in a still from Less Than Zero. “Certainly by studying the Iron Man role and developing that script I realised that the character seemed to line-up with Robert in all the good and bad ways. “Everybody knew he was talented,” Favreau recounted in a later interview to a Texas radio station.
Ten years later, Downey Jr will apparently be paid close to $100 million for Avengers: Infinity War, the latest in the now 19 film-strong MCU. But director Jon Favreau fought for him every step of the way, convinced that he was the only man for the job. In the mid-2000s, when the film was initially being planned and the ambitious Marvel Cinematic Universe was but a glimmer in producer Kevin Feige’s eye, Downey Jr was a star well past his prime, having developed a reputation as an unreliable screw-up with a history of drug abuse. Marvel did not want to cast Robert Downey Jr in the role of Tony Stark in the first Iron Man.
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