{"id":505034,"date":"2026-06-17T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505034\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:47:11","slug":"robert-downey-jr-avengers-doomsday-wont-let-down-marvel-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505034\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr.: &#8216;Avengers: Doomsday&#8217; Wont Let Down Marvel Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/robert-downey-jr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robert-downey-jr\" data-tag=\"robert-downey-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Downey Jr.<\/a> can\u2019t say much about \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/avengers-doomsday\/\" id=\"auto-tag_avengers-doomsday\" data-tag=\"avengers-doomsday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>,\u201d the upcoming Marvel tentpole that reintroduces him to the franchise as the villainous Doctor Doom, but he is assuring comic book movie fans that it will live up to the hype. Speaking <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/robert-downey-jr-officially-addresses-the-pressure-of-his-mcu-return-and-doom\/\" target=\"_blank\">to CBR<\/a> alongside co-director Joe Russo, the Oscar winner said the movie \u201clanded in a place that I think will more than suffice\u201d for fans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAnd it\u2019s not even about how I executed it,\u201d Downey added. \u201cIt\u2019s about the way it\u2019s been structured, and the other characters. There\u2019s something going on in \u2018Doomsday\u2019 and forward that is literally the only antidote to: How do you not have these films be let down after an \u2018Infinity War\u2019 and an \u2018Endgame?\u2019 And boy, have we labored long and hard to bring that down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOf course, Downey could not reveal what that thing in \u201cDoomsday\u201d and \u201cAvengers: Secret Wars\u201d is. Joe Russo said \u201cthere are a lot of surprises\u201d in the new movie, adding: \u201cI think [\u2018Doomsday\u2019] is the most emotionally complex of all of them. And in a lot of ways, the most mature of all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s an incredible amount of gratitude we have going into these two,\u201d Downey also noted. \u201cOne epic at a time.\u00a0\u2018Doomsday\u2019\u2026 just the gratitude to be able to do it. To still be engaging with people who are critical when we fall short, but who understand how difficult it is when we get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDowney\u2019s villain debut in \u201cDoomsday\u201d follows his tenure playing the superhero Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The character exited in 2019\u2019s \u201cAvengers: Endgame,\u201d after which Marvel\u2019s track record got bumpy with blockbusters (\u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home,\u201d \u201cDeadpool vs. Wolverine\u201d) and flops (\u201cThe Marvels,\u201d \u201cAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania\u201d) alike. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d opens in theaters Dec. 18 from Disney and <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/marvel-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvel-studios\" data-tag=\"marvel-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marvel Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr. can\u2019t say much about \u201cAvengers: Doomsday,\u201d the upcoming Marvel tentpole that reintroduces him to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2561,93,61,60,2702,270,26953],"class_list":["post-505034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-marvel-studios","tag-movies","tag-robert-downey-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505034","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=505034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}