Robert Downey has started crying after hearing for the first time that his Tony Stark aka Iron Man will be going to die in the film named Avengers: Endgame. This news has been revealed by Marvel’s most successful director duo named Anthony Russo and Joe.
The stories have been revealed in the latest book named “The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe” by Tara Bennett and Paul Terry, the Russo Brother, along with several other Marvel associates and actors about making its 23 films.
Almost for ten years, Robert Downey Jr has played the role of Iron Man. He has started to play the role of Iron Man in the MCU in 2008. And making his way for the Infinity Saga and structuring Marvel Studios as one of Hollywood’s most successful banners. Eventually, Iron Man has laid down his life to bring back half the humanity and decimate the Mad Titan Thanos and his army, by snapping his finger in Endgame.
The director Joe and Anthony Russo has revealed the ultimate fate of Tony Stark’s story by recalling the moment when Robert Downey Jr in the book. “When we started winding down the pitch and getting to his death, Robert started crying. And when we were done, he said, ‘That’s f**king awesome.’ According to Business Insider, Joe said in the book, “That’s when we knew that we had to do it. Because he felt it”.
The Russos have also recalled their meeting with Robert Downey Jr after the release of the film named Captain America: Civil War in order to discuss how they have planned to take the character graph of Iron Man ahead. Joe also remembered the moment when the actor got to know about his “sacrifice to save humanity” “In a way, it’s almost like a death in the family. When you’re saying to someone, ‘All these people you’ve loved and have hung out with for 10 years? That’s all gonna go away because we want to tell a story a certain way.'”
Anthony has said, “What we wanted to do is communicate the entire pitch to Robert, to sort of taking his temperature on it, because he had so much creative ownership over the character”. As per the report by Business Insider, Joe Russo has said, “We were like, ‘If Robert gets this if Robert feels this, then we know we’re in a good place'”.
The director duo named Joe and Anthony Russo are also called the Russo Brothers which has directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame for Marvel Studios.