Robert Downey Jr. on “The Avengers”
By Jamelle Bouie - Dec 4th, 2008 at 11:20 amRobert Downey, Jr. recently gave his thoughts on the upcoming Avengers movie:
MTV: You know that “The Avengers” movie is the one every comic book fan is salivating for.
Downey: That means 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.
MTV: Are you guys discussing “Iron Man 2″ as a story that will feed directly into “Avengers”?
Downey: It seems natural that it would at least introduce that factor. My inclination is to bring it another step. 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.
I think Downey’s concerns are misplaced; if we take Nick Fury’s assertion seriously–that the world of superheroes is much larger than what Tony Stark imagines–then that leaves room for any number of possibilities. It is, for example, entirely possible that heroes like Hank Pym, Captain America, or Vision are operating in the world Tony Stark inhabits, and he just doesn’t realize it.
Of course, a character like Thor is a little harder to handle, since according to Marvel’s mythology he is actually a god. But I think the film makers can take a page from the Ultimates, and simply leave the question of Thors’ powers unanswered, at least for the first film.
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