Robert Downey Jr. Had Talks for Fantastic Four Role (Confirmed)

In a new video celebrating 2008's Iron Man, it's further confirmed that Robert Downey Jr. did, in fact, have conversations to play Doctor Doom in a Fantastic Four project.

While the world has come to know the actor mostly as the one and only Iron Man, in a different timeline, he could have been the infamous Doctor Doom.

In The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which was published in late 2022, the book casually dropped a quote from Favreau that "Marvel had already met with [Robert Downey Jr.] before... to play Doctor Doom." 

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