We’re getting into the ultimate countdown to Avengers: Doomsday, and the stakes couldn’t be greater, on and offscreen. Whereas the Avengers, New Avengers, Incredible 4, X-Males, the kingdoms of Wakanda and Talokan all desperately battle to keep away from annihilation by the incursions wiping out the multiverse, the enigmatic determine of Physician Doom will step into the breach, making an attempt to assert remnants of the Marvel Multiverse as his personal, to forge a brand new actuality of his making.
Marvel Cinematic Universe icon Robert Downey Jr. is returning to play Doom in Avengers: Doomsday and its sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars. There was lots of hype round Doom’s MCU debut, and simply as many questions on how Downey will play the villain and how much lore is constructed round him.
All the world is questioning what we’re getting with Doom in Doomsday, and one of many individuals who is aware of that reply greatest is Anthony Mackie, who performs Sam Wilson, aka the brand new Captain America. Mackie was lately requested by ET if it was epic going toe-to-toe with RDJ as Doom whereas filming on set. The reply Mackie gave will definitely get some followers in an uproar: “Nicely, no, as a result of, like, it wasn’t him; Robert don’t battle! No! Hell no!”
For those who watch the video, it’s fairly clear that Mackie is simply being flippant (as he’s wont to do in interviews). In his extra critical response, he praised the enjoyable side of constructing Marvel motion pictures and attending to reunite with previous co-stars he hasn’t seen for the reason that earlier crossover movies.
“Look, you realize, these motion pictures, they’re like summer season camp, Mackie stated. You already know, everyone comes collectively, and it’s like, ‘Oh, how have you ever been? Oh, you might have a child now. Oh, wow, you’re married now!’ It’s simply a kind of issues the place you simply meet up with everyone.”
Oddly sufficient, Downey isn’t talked about immediately within the record of individuals Mackie name-drops as the brand new and previous acquaintances frolicked with on set. It must be no secret to any longtime MCU fan that taking part in Iron Man allowed Robert Downey Jr. to avoid lots of the on-set calls for his co-stars had. Motion sequences usually used a CGI rendering of the Iron Man armor, whereas Downey merely recorded traces and facial seize from a sales space, which had been then used for the close-up scenes inside Tony’s helmet, whereas interfacing together with his armor’s AI. Doom might be simpler than that, as Downey is probably going solely wanted for very close-up pictures the place his face is seen by the masks, or (clearly) any scenes of Doom unmasked. The remainder may be dealt with by a stunt double, together with all of the battle choreography. So perhaps there’s a bit extra fact than humor in Anthony Mackie’s “joke” in regards to the man within the Doom go well with?
We’ll discover out when Avengers Doomsday hits theaters on December 18th.