Navigating the Amount of People Who Could Be in Avengers: Doomsday Sounds Like a Nightmare

While the internet hangs onto every casting announcement for the Marvel Cinematic Universe for narrative speculation, it turns out the truth behind who gets to be in the next big tentpole might be a little less exciting. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the Russo Brothers (Electric State) discussed going back to the drawing board with Marvel to work on the next two Avengers films, Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, which will feature former Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. turning heel to play Doctor Doom. This isn’t the first time they’ve done something this risky with the franchise’s leading star. Joe Russo recalled approaching Downey, at the time still leading the MCU as Iron Man, to be the bad guy in Captain America: Civil War —”a movie that wasn’t even titled after his character. And it was the pitch of our lives. And he said, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’ He liked the risk, to Robert’s credit, and that choice led the explosive upside to Infinity War and Endgame.” In the ... Read full article.