Robert Downey Jr. talks Avengers film direction; casting call reveals some Iron Man 2 details

Sure we all want to see an Avengers movie. To see Captain America, Thor & Iron Man team up to stop a greater threat would be beyond the greatest thing on earth. But one of the things that might bring the house down is this question: How do you put industrialist a Tony Stark, a plausible reality, in the same room with Thor, Son of Odin & keeper of Asgard, and expect for people to not laugh. Luckily, during an interview with MTV Movies, Robert Downey Jr. addressed this very issue:

“If we don’t get it right, it’s really going to suck. It has to be the crowning blow of Marvel’s best and brightest, because it’s the hardest thing to get right. It’s tough to spin all the plates for one of these characters,” Downey tells MTV, later adding: “The danger you run with colliding all these worlds is that Jon was very certain that “Iron Man” should be set in a very realistic way. Nothing that happened in Iron Man is really outside the realm of possibility. Once you start talking about Valhalla and supersized super soldiers and jolly green giants, it warrants much further discussion.”

Yup, so at least they’re thinking about it and I’m sure Robert Downey Jr. & Jon Favreau (who will be producing the film) won’t let the credibility they built on the Iron Man film go right out the window. Also, this casting call for the film might reveal some insight into the villain(s) that will be doing battle with our brave hero (Crimson Dynamo? Titanium Man?) in the Iron Man sequel, as well as a possible hint that a certain Russian assassin in the form of Black Widow might be showing up. Interesting….

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