{"id":587656,"date":"2026-08-17T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/587656\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:30:11","slug":"robert-downey-jr-reprises-iron-man-role-ahead-of-avengers-doomsday-for-new-disney-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/587656\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr reprises Iron Man role ahead of Avengers: Doomsday for new Disney project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Downey Jr has reprised his role as Iron Man for a new Disney project ahead of the release of Avengers: Doomsday in December. Despite his death in Avengers: Endgame, the actor will return as Tony Stark in a new dark ride at the Disneyland Resort in California. <\/p>\n

Announced at this year’s D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, Disney confirmed that Downey Jr will star as Iron Man in Avengers: Infinity Defense, a new attraction at Disneyland. <\/p>\n

Also reprising their roles from the MCU are Anthony Mackie as Captain America, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, and Chris Hemsworth as Thor (via Entertainment Weekly<\/a>). <\/p>\n

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Ms Marvel star Iman Vellani has also reprised her role and will introduce guests in a video presentation before the ride starts. <\/p>\n

The new ride is set to open at the Disney California Adventure theme park in 2028, with all the stars having reportedly already filmed their scenes. <\/p>\n

At D23, Disney released some footage that will be shown in the finished attraction, with Downey Jr’s Iron Man saying: “Welcome to Avengers Campus. We built this place to recruit, inspire the next generation.”<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re a big part of that mission,” he continued, adding that guests will serve as heroes as they work together to battle the villain Thanos.<\/p>\n

Also announced at the fan event was a new attraction, Stark Flight Lab, which sees Tony Stark take guests on a journey while riding an arm fixed to a moving track. <\/p>\n

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Mackie also returns for that ride as Captain America, with Captain Marvel star Brie Larson joining them, having already filmed scenes. <\/p>\n

Speaking about Stark Flight Lab, Walt Disney Imagineering’s Executive Creative Director Brent Strong told the audience at D23: “Together, they will be your flight instructors as you discover what it\u2019s like to train like an Avenger,”<\/p>\n

Downey Jr last starred as Tony Stark in the 2019 hit Avengers: Endgame, in which his character died. He is set to return to the MCU this December as Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday.<\/p>\n

Avengers: Doomsday is released in cinemas on 18 December.<\/p>\n

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Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr has reprised his role as Iron Man for a new Disney project ahead of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[219001,143505,137241,146627,635,265910,637,146,85,46,195853,636,397,265909,237453],"class_list":["post-587656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-avengers","tag-collection-disney","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-marvel","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-b4cbd621-bbb8-44ee-8855-08154a6de01e","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-robert-downey-jr-reprises-iron-man-role-for-disney-project","tag-sponsored-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}