{"id":412598,"date":"2026-04-23T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412598\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:04:09","slug":"jon-favreau-tried-to-stop-iron-mans-death-in-avengers-endgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412598\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Favreau Tried to Stop Iron Man’s Death in ‘Avengers: Endgame"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJon Favreau<\/a> is finally admitting he was wrong to warn Joe and Anthony Russo against killing off Tony Stark\/Iron Man in 2019\u2019s \u201cAvengers: Endgame<\/a>.\u201d Favreau gave rise to the Marvel Cinematic Universe when he cast Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man in the 2008 movie of the same name. They re-teamed for 2010\u2019s \u201cIron Man 2,\u201d with Favreau continuing to work with Downey in other Marvel movies by playing Tony\u2019s assistant and driver Happy Hogan.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI called the Russos. I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know about \u2014 I don\u2019t think people \u2014 I don\u2019t know if people are going to like \u2014 I don\u2019t know! I think it\u2019s going to really impact people because there they were kids that grew up with that character,’\u201d Favreau remembered on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d about objecting to Iron Man\u2019s \u201cEndgame\u201d death.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut I have to tell you, it was handled so well by them,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd Gwyneth [Paltrow] and Robert [Downey Jr.] did such a wonderful job acting, and I think it added a poignancy to it. I think they did a wonderful job. I was wrong. I was wrong. I was choked up! Even though it\u2019s a movie, those characters have been part of my life for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Russo brothers originally revealed in a Vanity Fair video interview<\/a> that Favreau was staunchly against their decision to kill off Iron Man, with Joe Russo saying: \u201cI remember pacing on the corner of a stage on the phone with Favreau trying to talk him off a ledge because he\u2019s like, \u2018You can\u2019t do this. It\u2019s gonna devastate people, and you don\u2019t want them walking out of the theater and into traffic.\u2019 We did it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDowney is now returning to Marvel, not not as Iron Man. He\u2019s taking on the villainous Doctor Doom in this December\u2019s \u201cAvengers: Doomsday<\/a>,\u201d which Favreau said he\u2019s \u201cexcited\u201d to watch. The filmmaker lobbied for Downey\u2019s Iron Man casting at a time when Downey\u2019s personal struggles had made him a pariah in Hollywood. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe was great for Tony Stark,\u201d Favreau said. \u201cAs soon was we cast him, everything else was easy decisions. There were a lot of Marvel movies before that\u2026 other \u2018Spider-Man\u2019 movies, \u2018X-Men.\u2019 Nobody knew who Iron Man was. I knew with Robert in that role \u2014 to cast someone who is that good of an actor in that type of role \u2014 it created something that was bigger.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Favreau\u2019s full interview on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d in the video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Favreau is finally admitting he was wrong to warn Joe and Anthony Russo against killing off Tony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2561,77346,93,61,60,28304,2702,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-412598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avengers-doomsday","9":"tag-avengers-endgame","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jon-favreau","14":"tag-marvel-studios","15":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}