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“That was Kevin [Feige],” Joe Russo revealed in an interview withOmelete.

“Interestingly enough about that, that conversation was had a while ago.”

Robert Downey Jr. during the Doctor Doom announcement at Marvel�s SDCC 2024 panel

“Then Robert tried to talk us into doing [the Avengers movies] and we said no.

Weirdly, because we said we wouldn’t come back.

We just didn’t have a story,” Russo said.

Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom

“We didn’t have a way in.

We were resistant for a while.

We went, ‘That’s the story.’

Robert Downey Jr announces his Doctor Doom casting at San Diego Comic-Con 2024

That story has to be told; it’s a really powerful story.”

That’s when they become three-dimensional and become more interesting.

Avengers: Doomsday is hitting cinemas on May 1, 2026.

Robert Downey Jr. sitting in a chair at the end of a long line of chairs

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