Favreau's Iron Man Survival Pitch for Endgame

0:00On April 23rd, John Favreau had a different vision for Iron Man's fate in Avengers Endgame. Back during development, the Iron Man director pitched the Russo brothers a version where Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark survives the big battle, and walks away alive. He even called Joe and Anthony Russo to push back hard against killing off the character. Favreau worried it would hit kids too deep, since so many grew up watching Tony Stark as their hero. Favreau kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe by casting Downey as Iron Man back in 2008. They teamed up again for Iron Man 2 in 2010, and Favreau stuck around playing Happy Hogan, Tony's right-hand guy. These days, though, Favreau owns up that he was wrong on this one. He praises how the Russo's nailed the emotional weight, especially with Gwyneth Paltrow, and Downey bringing real hard to those final moments. He even teared up watching it. Now Downey's jumping back into Marvel, but as the bad guy Dr. Doom in Avengers, Doom's day hitting theaters this December, keeping that MCU fire.

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