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Jonathan Majors ‘Heartbroken’ Over Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom Replacing Kang in Next ‘Avengers’ Films; He’d Still Return to MCU ‘If That’s What Marvel Wants’
Jonathan Majors was supposed to play Kang the Conquerer in the next two Avengers movies. Now it is Robert Downey Jr. taking over as Doctor Doom.
Jonathan Majorstold TMZ that he’s “heartbroken” over the news that Robert Downey Jr. ‘s Doctor Doom will be the new villain of the next two “Avengers” movies, effectively replacing Majors’ Kang the Conquerer. Majors was dropped by Marvel in December on the same day he was found guilty of two misdemeanor counts of harassment and assault. He faced numerous other legal issues in the years that followed, which made some Marvel executives apprehensive to cast him as Tony Stark in 2008’s “Iron Man.”
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