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Robert Downey Jr. Would ‘Happily’ Return to Marvel, but His ‘Avengers’ Directors Say ‘We Closed That Book’ on Iron Man After ‘Endgame’ Death


Robert Downey Jr. said he would "happily" return to Marvel, but his "Avengers: Endgame" directors argue they "closed that book" on Iron Man.

There’s only one hiccup: Iron Man died in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” But the MCU’s ever-expanding multiverse certainly leaves the door open for Downey’s return (just look at Hugh Jackman, who is back playing a different iteration of Wolverine in this summer’s “Deadpool and Wolverine” after his original X-Men hero died in “Logan.”) In a recent interview with GamesRadar+, “Avengers: Endgame” directors Joe and Anthony Russo expressed some confusion over Downey’s Iron Man popping back up in the MCU after they killed the character off so heroically in their record-breaking film. For what it’s worth, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige didn’t appear too interested in bringing Downey’s Iron Man back to the big screen when he spoke to Vanity Fair last December.

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