Kevin Feige says Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man isn't coming back to the MCU: "We would never want to magically undo it"
Dec. 4, 2023No, Iron Man isn’t coming back
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Kevin Feige has definitively shot down rumors that Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man will be returning to the MCU.
A report fromVarietyrecently claimed that the original six Avengers – Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, Chris Evans’Captain America, Scarlett Johansson’sBlack Widow, Jeremy Renner’sHawkeye, Chris Hemsworth’sThor, and Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk –could potentially be reuniting for another movie.
Of course, Iron Man heroically sacrificed himself to save the world inAvengers: Endgame, meaning any return would involve bringing him back to life and seriously undercutting that emotional moment. As Feige toldVanity Fair, that’s just not on the cards.
“We are going to keep that moment and not touch that moment again,” Feige told the publication. “We all worked very hard for many years to get to that, and we would never want to magically undo it in any way.”
Evans has also debunked the speculationthat he’ll be donning the red, white, and blue once more. “I always see those reports too, and it’s news to me,” he commented. “I think every couple months, someone says they’re getting Downey, and Hemsworth, and Scarlett, and everyone’s coming back… No one’s spoken to me about it.”
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I’m a Senior Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site’s Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.
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