- VisionQuest‘s creator briefly floated the thought of a Tony Stark cameo within the Marvel TV present
- The collection has quite a few ties to Robert Downey Jr’s iconic MCU character
- Terry Matalas knew it was a non-starter, so it by no means moved ahead
VisionQuest‘s showrunner has admitted he’d have preferred to have included a Tony Stark cameo — however was nicely conscious that he was “not going to get” Robert Downey Jr to seem within the Marvel TV present.
Chatting to me on the Disney+ collection’ UK junket, Terry Matalas name-dropped Stark as a personality he would have included if money and time had been no object. However, as Matalas additionally famous, although it could’ve been “great” to shock audiences with a shock look from Downey Jr, the possibilities of him truly agreeing to pop up within the Wanda/Imaginative and prescient TV trilogy capper had been successfully zero.
Requested whether or not Marvel positioned any limitations on the story he wished to inform and/or established characters he wished to make the most of, Matalas replied: “No. I imply, it often comes all the way down to finances. If we had extra money and time, you would embody something, perhaps even a flashback to Tony Stark coping with the supply code [that he uses to make his artificial intelligence (AI) programs].”
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It is not an outlandish suggestion for Matalas to make. In spite of everything, Stark helped to create Imaginative and prescient and Ultron, aka the deuteragonists of VisionQuest, method again in 2014’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. Moreover, he made myriad AIs to assist him with varied duties within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) earlier than — spoiler — his heroic sacrifice in Avengers: Endgame.
With Imaginative and prescient, Ultron, and the opposite synthetic beings constructed by Stark showing in VisionQuest, it is not unreasonable to imagine {that a} Downey Jr cameo was bandied about within the writers room. Add within the story that the Marvel Section 6 challenge tells (don’t be concerned, I will not spoil something right here), and a Stark look makes much more sense from a story standpoint.
Nonetheless, Matalas knew it could be nigh-on inconceivable to contain Downey Jr in any capability, so that concept was consigned to the scrap heap as rapidly because it took kind.
Responding to my follow-up about whether or not he broached the topic of a Downey Jr cameo with Marvel executives, Matalas stated: “We’re not going to get Downey Jr right into a Marvel present.
“It might’ve been great,” he added. “However, we’re only a TV collection, so you may’t actually have the entire… I imply, there are limitations, proper? You’ve got grand concepts however, all through the event course of, it’s important to say ‘nicely, we won’t do this, so how can we distill down that concept into one thing that might work?’. Hopefully, we bought there, however we’ll see [how viewers react to our story].”
For extra forward of its launch, learn my VisionQuest evaluation to see what I fabricated from all eight episodes (once more, no main spoilers housed inside!). Then, discover out when every chapter will air by testing my VisionQuest launch schedule information.
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