HO-LY SHIT, ROBERT DOWNEY JR. WAS JUST ANNOUNCED AS DR. DOOM IN THE UPCOMING AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY MOVIE
Based on that Stone Cold level pop and sticking the signature pose, I think it's safe to say MY BOY STILL GOT IT!!!
Albert L. Ortega. Shutterstock Images.RIP my dog TONEY STARK, WELCOME TO THE WORLD my dog VICTORE VON DOOM (or maybe a variant of my dog TONEY STARK?). I don't know how all this is going to work, but I believe the thinking for most people during the announcement went like this:
1. WHAT THE FUCK?
2. HOLY SHIT!
3. Ehhhhhh, I really don't know how I feel about this since there are other actors that could play that super important role that hopefully will be an over arching villain for years in the MCU.
And I'm with those people every step of the way. Iron Man was my favorite character during the glory days of the MCU and I loved how they didn't plan on bringing back Robert Downey Jr. to play Iron Man or any of his variants during this (being polite) extremely uneven multiverse saga.
So bringing RDJ back to play a massive Marvel villain in the upcoming Avengers movie(s) kinda does that in the biggest ways possible. HOWEVAH, we are also in the multiverse saga with Secret Wars being the follow up to Doomsday.
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So God knows where the hell they are actually taking Dr. Doom or any of the characters in 2-3 years and there are a million ways this can go extremely wrong.
But I feel confident in the ship having a smooth takeoff and landing if the Russo Brothers are the ones flying it considering they are batting 1.000 with MCU movies, including the most ambitious crossover event in history and the perfect conclusion to a decade of movies. I also feel confident in Kevin Feige bringing us home, but that's admittedly because I still have all the good vibes from Deadpool & Wolverine rattling around in my brain.
This feels like a good thing as well.
I broke down all this on last week's My Mom's Basement and think the wrestling analogy plays.
WCW having Hulk Hogan as a main eventer for years followed by Hollywood Hogan becoming a main eventer feels lazy. But it was an epic switch seeing the face of good become the face of evil and helped save a struggling once proud franchise (sound familiar?).
Long story short, this may suck and this may rule, which feels very on par with the multiverse saga that a wise man told me at the movies this weekend just wasn't working. I look forward to seeing the conflict in Tom Holland's eyes as he fights the variant of his hero, hearing the amount of money Mickey Mouse paid Robert Downey Jr. to take this role (I personally believe they gave him rights to the parking lot money from Magic Kingdom for the rest of his life), and reading just what exactly their plans were for Dr. Doom, the next two Avengers movies, and Kang if Jonathan Majors didn't completely fuck things up.
Needless to say we will be covering all this in great detail on My Mom's Basement ASAP, so make sure to subscribe to get our reactions as soon as the episode drops. Until then, check out our recap/review of Deadpool & Wolverine.
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