Robert Downey Jr. Elaborates On IRON MAN 4 Return And His Injury Filming IRON MAN 3

Robert Downey Jr. Elaborates On IRON MAN 4 Return And His Injury Filming IRON MAN 3

The Age of Ultron star talks lengthily about whether or not he would do Iron Man 4, and how his age is catching up to him, which leads him to discuss the injury he got while filming Iron Man 3. Check it out

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By DCMarvelFreshman - Oct 03, 2014 09:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Avengers
Source: Deadline


"That’s all being talked about on a bunch of different levels right now," said Robert Downey Jr. when Deadline asked about him not returning for Iron Man 4 and where his future lies as the Armored Avenger. "To me, it comes down to what’s the half-life of people enjoying a character? It’s different on TV, where you expect the longevity over seasons while movies get a two or three year break. Marvel keeps stepping up its game, and I appreciate the way Kevin Feige and all the creatives there think. They are as in the creative wheelhouse as any great studio has been at any point. So it becomes a matter of, at what point do I cease to be an asset to what they’re doing, and at what point do I feel I am spending so much time either shooting or promoting these films that I’m not actually able to get off the beachhead and do the kind of other stuff that is good for all of us. Each one of those movies is spread over two years and some people fit other things in. But I’m not 42, I’m turning 50 and now I’ll have two small kids instead of one grown one, and eight Team Downey projects with people who are imagining I’m not just spending Warner Bros’ money out of vanity, but that I’m taking it seriously. It all has become this thing that has to be figured." Whether or not Downey will renegotiate his contract with Marvel Studios to do Iron Man 4, we still have next year's Avengers: Age of Ultron as well as the 2018 third superhero assembly to see the actor portray the philanthropist Tony Stark.

Speaking of Age of Ultron, Downey had said during a previous interview that he would no longer be a leading man when he turns 50, and it prompted the two-time Oscar-nominated actor to recall a realization while filming the 2015 Marvel sequel this past year.  "...Then again, I don’t even know what a leading man is, nowadays," he started. "I think it has always been someone who can carry a story. I also think about how much easier it was to remember on this last Avengers that I’m 20 years older than pretty much everyone there. That’s pretty much the cast. Ruffalo and I are a little closer in age and maybe Spader has a couple years on me, but you know what I mean." The interviewer jokingly asked Downey if he then became aware that the cracking joints he heard while filming Age of Ultron were his own, and not Chris Hemsworth's. "Well, hearing the cracking of my own bones on Iron Man 3, I finally came out of what can only be described as a five year flight of fancy where I thought, if Sherlock Holmes can do this, it means I can," the actor replied. "If Tony can jump from one part of a scaffold to the other and not bust his ankle, well then let’s do it two or three times and go to lunch. Looking back, I’m surprised and really embarrassed that some middle aged guy was thinking like that. And I honestly don’t think like that presently. But I also know that it could happen again, this bit of a hypnosis that would make someone think that way. There’s also this weird thing, where I wish somebody could just come in and tell me what is really going on when people so identify me with a character like Tony. Or sometimes the smarter, younger gals they look at me and they speak with an American accent and I’m Sherlock to them." About that ankle injury he sustained back in 2012 while filming Iron Man 3, which had halted production for almost a month, Robert Downey Jr. then discussed how it happened. "Yeah... I was doing a wire jump, and Shane Black, who I adore, came on and said, 'We’re going to try to get this before lunch,'" Downey explained. "I’d been sitting around all morning, and I got up and I put on my boots and walked out, and put on the wire and said, “Jump to there?” We were in North Carolina and there were these stairs that I had to get up to get up to the floor where the bedrooms were and I busted my ankle. For some reason or other I took off the boot, whatever I did, I got to the top of the stairs and I tripped, and kind of and banged it on something and hit the ground. Right then, Susan came around the corner, she goes, “All right. Are you finally going to accept the fact that you’re injured and that you’re not a kid. Just look at you on the floor there. Look at you!” And she kind of kept walking through the kitchen and I was just lying there on my side, and it is just throbbing and I just started laughing. I was like, Jesus Christ. Why is it always that you realize things when you’re lying there, resplendent on a wood floor, writhing in pain?" Check out the source link to read the full Deadline interview where Robert Downey Jr. jokes that he would return as Tony Stark in Iron Man 4....if his friend Mel Gibson is directing. What do you think?



Marvel Studios presents Avengers: Age of Ultron, the epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to the Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure. Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron stars Robert Downey Jr., who returns as Iron Man, along with Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk. Together with Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, and with the additional support of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill, the team must reassemble to defeat James Spader as Ultron, a terrifying technological villain hell-bent on human extinction. Along the way, they confront two mysterious and powerful newcomers, Wanda Maximoff, played by Elizabeth Olsen, and Pietro Maximoff, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and meet an old friend in a new form when Paul Bettany becomes Vision. Written and directed by Joss Whedon and produced by Kevin Feige, Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963. Get set for an action-packed thrill ride when The Avengers return in Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron on May 1, 2015.
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MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 10/3/2014, 9:36 AM
I really don't know about Iron Man 4. It'd have to be IM1 and TWS good for me to accept.
ruadh
ruadh - 10/3/2014, 9:36 AM
Any movie with him as Tony Stark, I will definitely see at least once in the theater.
DrKinsolving
DrKinsolving - 10/3/2014, 9:38 AM
I would definitely see Iron Man 4 in the Theatre....

Just saying, RDJ and Iron Man is so entertaining, and I wouldn't mind, actually I'd prefer one last Iron Man movie to tie everything together
grif
grif - 10/3/2014, 9:41 AM
[frick] all other movies dude. make im and tony stark movies forever. [frick] the haters.

the guy does not even need to wear the suit. just make a tony stark movie and i am in
m0th3r
m0th3r - 10/3/2014, 9:41 AM
I think they come to a compromise and we get another single or maybe two picture deal..

Iron Man 4...OR a Marvel's Science Brother's...Stark and Banner with their cranky old room-mate Hank Pym.. :)
ruadh
ruadh - 10/3/2014, 9:43 AM
If Tony dies, it will last probably five seconds. And that actually goes for any other Avenger. Peripheral people will die and come back later on.
DeusExSponge
DeusExSponge - 10/3/2014, 9:43 AM
If they can make Iron Man 4 in the same vein as Iron Man 1 and/or Captain America TWS, then I'm all for it. I liked Iron Man 3, but I think RDJ's Iron Man deserves a better swan song than what Iron Man 3 gave us.
BlackIceJoe
BlackIceJoe - 10/3/2014, 9:43 AM
I really wish there would be an Iron Man 4 movie. I don't think it will happen though. I am surprised Disney hasn't pretty much given him a black check to make the movie. The reason why is because the Iron Man movies make more then the other Marvel films. On a side note what Warner Brothers money is he talking about? Doesn't Robert mean the Disney money instead?
MsDarkPhoenix
MsDarkPhoenix - 10/3/2014, 9:44 AM
The amount of money that he would ask though... More than we are going to make during our entire lives probably...
yossarian
yossarian - 10/3/2014, 9:45 AM
No one is killing anyone. The whole over arcing theme of the MCU is survival. I know that's not adult enough for some people. But it's true.
DefcoN
DefcoN - 10/3/2014, 9:47 AM
He's the man.
DrKinsolving
DrKinsolving - 10/3/2014, 9:47 AM
@m0th3r

I agree, I really hope we get to see Stark, Banner, and Pym talking science....
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 10/3/2014, 9:47 AM
he should've walked off the ankle injury then walked off the set after reading the script .................
SpiderFraud
SpiderFraud - 10/3/2014, 9:48 AM
I'm so down for one more Ironman film.

Ironman 3 was really interesting, even with the flaws. I wouldn't mind Shane Black coming back, only if he can make Ironman feel like how he did in the first movie.

It would be cool if part 4 was the last outing and they get tJon Favreau to come back and direct with Shane Black.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 10/3/2014, 9:48 AM
SauronsBANE
SauronsBANE - 10/3/2014, 9:50 AM
Eh, no more Iron Man movies please. What would be the point after Iron Man 3 wrapped things up like that? Having the first movie AND the third movie end with the words 'I am Iron Man' is as close to full-circle as you're gonna get. A 4th movie would just feel tacked-on and unnecessary (and if anyone seriously thinks a 4th movie would be Iron Man vs the REAL Mandarin...I got a bridge to sell you haha). Stark's solo journeys should be over and done with. I'm more than happy to just see him in the next 2 Avengers movies.
Mrcool210
Mrcool210 - 10/3/2014, 9:58 AM
Im fine with him only being in Avengers 2 and 3. He deserves a break from the character.
ThedamnBatman
ThedamnBatman - 10/3/2014, 9:59 AM
I want this guys vocabulary
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 10/3/2014, 9:59 AM
If they're talking then the project will most likely get the walking...

Iron Man 4 is happening, just watch. lol
PAF
PAF - 10/3/2014, 10:03 AM
RDJ is the man. Such class.
DrKinsolving
DrKinsolving - 10/3/2014, 10:05 AM
It'll be interesting to see if they pass the torch on to another actor or if the character of Iron Man goes away for awhile and Marvel just brings in a new set of heroes and focuses on Dr Strange, ect....

Iron Man 1 holds up though, I saw it again last week and that movie is [frick]ing amazing
SauronsBANE
SauronsBANE - 10/3/2014, 10:07 AM
I hear you guys, but after Iron Man 3 made such a point to say that Tony Stark IS Iron Man...I don't see them making another movie that would be more Iron Man-centric or less Tony Stark-centric. Wouldn't that kind of contradict the entire point of Iron Man 3? To the MCU, there is now no difference between the two sides of the character. Iron Man 3 made that loud and clear.

So personally, I definitely don't see them going back, disregarding all of Iron Man 3, and making an Iron Man 4. But hey, I've been wrong before!
Pasto
Pasto - 10/3/2014, 10:10 AM
I know a girl who likes to peg on the first date...
ruadh
ruadh - 10/3/2014, 10:10 AM
@0megaDaGod

I would love a third Holmes, but am not holding out a lot of hope since Ritchie is doing the multi-picture King Arthur thing soon. Maybe they can get Matthew Vaughn or something...
TelaVizion
TelaVizion - 10/3/2014, 10:12 AM
People need to stop asking for a Iron Man 4. This is not Sony, Fox, or WB for that matter... Marvel have hundreds of characters to make movies for. This is no longer the age of making movies over and over again for the same character. He had his trilogy and is in the Avengers movies. You don't need anymore.
TelaVizion
TelaVizion - 10/3/2014, 10:12 AM
@ruadh maybe he'll slip in a 3rd Holmes b4 he starts the K.A. movies
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