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 The
 Russo Brothers
 have revealed that they first turned down the offer to direct both
 Avengers: Doomsday
 and
 Secret Wars
 , as well as who was behind
 Robert Downey Jr
 ’s return to the franchise as Doctor Doom.


 In a new interview,
 Joe Russo
 said that it was the Marvel CEO Kevin Feige’s idea to
 bring Downey back as Doctor Doom
 after his heroic death as
 Iron Man
 in 2019’s
 Avengers: Endgame
 .


 “That was Kevin,” he told
 Omelete
 . “Interestingly enough about that, that conversation was had a while ago.”


 “Robert [Downey Jr] tried to talk us into doing it and we said, ‘No.’ We just didn't have a story. We didn't have a way in, right? We were resistant for a while.”


 “And then one day [
 Endgame
 writer] Steve McFeely, who's one of our key collaborators, said, ‘I have an idea.’ And we went, ‘That’s the story. That story has to be told. It's a really powerful story.’”

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 Joe
 and
 Anthony Russo
 previously directed some of the
 Marvel Cinematic Universe
 ’s most popular and highest-grossing films like
 Endgame
 , which made $2.79bn worldwide,
 Avengers: Infinity War
 in 2018,
 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
 in 2014, and
 Captain America: Civil War
 in 2016.


 Downey’s portrayal as Victor Von Doom
 , which was
 announced at at ComicCon last year
 , will not be the first the character appears in the MCU, as Julian McMahon first played the role in 2005’s
 Fantastic Four
 , which also s
 tarred Ioan Gruffudd
 as Reed Richards, Jessica Alba as Sue Storm,
 Chris Evans
 as Johnny Storm, and Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm.


 There is very little information on
 Avengers: Doomsday
 available except that Downey is playing the titular villain, and the Russos intend to give nothing else away.


 “The one thing I will say about the movie is this: we love villains who think they're the heroes of their own stories. That's when they become three-dimensional and when they become more interesting. And when you have an actor like Robert Downey, you have to create a well-shaped three-dimensional character for the audience,” Joe Russo said.


 Avengers: Doomsday
 is set to hit theatres in 2026, while the Fantastic Four reboot hits theatres this July.

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 The Fantastic Four: First Steps
 stars
 Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby
 , Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn as the heroic quartet, with
 British actor Ralph Ineson as the villain Galactus
 and Julia Garner as the Silver Surfer.


 At the time of Downey’s casting announcement,
 the Russo brothers said it was made possible due to the multiverse
 – a series of different worlds featuring characters old and new, which makes unlimited possibilities available.


 This suggests that Downey will be playing a villainous variant of
 Tony Stark
 /Iron Man. It’s believed this idea was thought up after the
 axing
 of
 Jonathan Majors
 from the MCU; his character Kang the Destroyer was originally meant to be the primary villain in a forthcoming Avengers film.


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Russo Brothers Disclose Why TheyRejected Avengers: Doomsday, Even After Robert Downey Jr.'s Plea

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The Russo Brothers have revealed that they first turned down the offer to direct both Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars , as well as who was behind Robert Downey Jr ’s return to the franchi…