Joe Rogan and Robert Downey Jr dream up Ironman\u2019s possible Marvel return YouTube: Joe Rogan \/ Marvel-DisneyRobert Downey Jr. may have hung up the red and chrome helmet after ten blockbuster appearances in Disney\u2019s superhero franchise, but Joe Rogan believes he\u2019s found a way to bring him back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With Downey\u2019s next major film release, Dolittle, dropping this week, the Marvel star has once again found himself in the headlines less than a year after (spoilers) he sacrificed himself as Tony Stark to stop Thanos in Avengers: Endgame. Ironman joined a small group of characters that had died across the 23-film series, including Scarlett Johansson\u2019s Black Widow and Paul Bettany\u2019s Vision, but Joe Rogan said he thinks the door to RDJ playing the iconic hero \u201cisn\u2019t quite shut.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t believe it is, you guys can travel through time now, you\u2019ve already opened up that potential door,\u201d Rogan said, and laid out exactly how he imagined the leader of the Avengers could storm back onto the silver screen. \u201cHere\u2019s how I see it,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey go through a few semi-lackluster Avengers movies without you, and there\u2019s a moment where the world\u2019s at stake, and they realize they need a super-genius\u2026 and then they figure out how to restart that time machine. \u201cThe audience sees you, imagine when you step out of that thing. The way people would freak out when you came out of that thing. Take a few years off, do a few Doctor Dolittes, a few Sherlock Holmes, and then think about it.\u201d \u201cLet me ask the question then \u2013 if I picked the jersey back up and put it back on, wouldn\u2019t you feel a little bit like\u2026 crap,\u201d Downey Jr. shot back, and added he would have to be given a \u201csuper compelling argument\u201d to change his mind. \u201cTo me, starting up that character again is off the table. I feel like I\u2019ve done all that I can with that character, and it would take a really good series of events to change that. And the other thing is, I want to do other stuff, too!\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s just incredible, our culture never encourages taking a break, never encourages saying \u2018don\u2019t chase that thing,\u2019 and I love the idea that if you are good at what you do, then it\u2019s not about time, it\u2019s about deciding when to pick up the mantle.\u201d According to Downey, he may also be the furthest he ever has been from wanting to return to the red-and-chrome armor of one of Earth\u2019s mightiest heroes. After months of press tours and red carpets for his final Avengers outing, he finally got to sit down for a dinner with Johansson, Jon Favreau, Kevin Feige, and VFX digital specialist Victoria Alonso this week and \u201csay goodbye.\u201d \u201cI think it was the perfect time [to leave Ironman behind]\u2026 I had dinner with a few of the Marvel folks the other day, had some crudit\u00e9s and talked sh*t, and I got to have another moment of closure,\u201d the Ironman star revealed. \u201cI saw all these videos of people freaking out and losing their minds when Tony snapped [the Infinity Gauntlet] and I realized it was such a massive cultural thing, but then I had that dinner and it felt like closing the circle for the last time, a bit.\u201d For Marvel fans, the news that Ironman may never again return to the big screen with Robert Downey Jr. behind the mask may be disappointing, but that doesn\u2019t mean the Cinematic Universe is coming to an end by any means. In fact, it seems like Disney\u2019s series is still very much on the rise. The Johansson-led Black Widow is set to release in April, and \u2018WandaVision\u2019 and \u2018The Falcon and The Winter Soldier\u2019 are both expected on Disney Plus later this year, too. Basically, it\u2019s the perfect time to be a superhero fan \u2014 franchise-leading names like RDJ and Chris Evans may have stepped away after Endgame, but Fiege\u2019s vision for an ever-growing MCU doesn\u2019t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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