Slightly beneath a yr in the past, Marvel Studios dropped the bombshell information at San Diego Comedian-Con that Robert Downey Jr. was returning to the MCU to play Physician Doom in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. And it wasn’t simply most people that was stunned by Downey’s involvement in these two upcoming Marvel motion pictures. Chris Evans, who starred reverse the Iron Man actor in a number of MCU motion pictures as Steve Rogers, a.okay.a. Captain America, was additionally a part of the crows, and he used a pizza analogy whereas describing how he reacted to the massive information final summer time.
Evans has been making the press rounds to speak about Materialists, the 2025 film launch he stars in reverse Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal. However naturally Marvel-related topics have additionally been developing, and whereas talking with ScreenRant, he had this to say about RDJ’s return whereas seated subsequent to Johnson:
After I first heard it, I used to be like, ‘Huh?’ But it surely’s nearly like cheese and the crust. You are like, ‘There’s nothing extra we will do with this pizza,’ and then you definitely’re like, ‘Oh, rattling. You realize? What else? What if we did this? (makes flipping movement). Whoa.’
Anybody else hungry for pizza now? I can perceive Chris Evans’ preliminary confusion since that’s how I felt when the information about Robert Downey Jr.’s new function within the MCU. In spite of everything, Tony Stark sacrificed his life in Avengers: Endgame to wipe Thanos and his military from existence, bringing an finish to his 11-year story. Positive, there was the opportunity of a Tony Stark variant from one other universe displaying up, however I sincerely didn’t assume Downey would return to this franchise so quickly.
However evidently Marvel Studios discovered one other solution to put together the proverbial pizza, and now Robert Downey Jr.’s will get to go away a villainous imprint on the MCU after greater than a decade of taking part in a hero. Chris Evans seems like he’s wanting to see how RDJ does taking part in Physician Doom, and this casting truly establishes one other connective thread between them. Doom is historically depicted because the Implausible 4’s arch-nemesis, and earlier than he was forged as Captain America, he performed Johnny Storm, a.okay.a. The Human Torch, within the Implausible 4 motion pictures from the 2000s, in addition to in final yr’s Deadpool & Wolverine.
Though there have been rumors that Chris Evans will return to the MCU as properly, doubtlessly even by making a cameo look in The Implausible 4: First Steps, he denied this again in January. So assuming he’s telling the reality, he’ll get to see with the remainder of us how Robert Downey Jr. does taking part in Physician Doom when Avengers: Doomsday is launched on December 17, 2026.