Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has shut down rumours that Robert Downey Jr. will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

Talking to Self-importance Truthful for a brand new profile piece on Downey, Feige has revealed that Marvel Studios won’t be bringing again the Iron Man actor after the character was killed off in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.

Feige mentioned, citing Downey Jr.’s remaining efficiency as Iron Man: “We’re going to hold that second and never contact that second once more. All of us labored very arduous for a few years to get to that, and we’d by no means wish to magically undo it in any approach.”

Moreover, Avengers: Endgame administrators Anthony and Joe Russo shared that Downey Jr. was “reluctant” to re-shoot a single line of dialogue after formally wrapping his scenes.

Robert Downey Jr. on the premiere of ‘Iron Man’. Credit score: Sean Gallup by way of Getty Pictures

“We’d already mentioned tearful goodbyes on the final day of capturing. Everyone had moved on emotionally,” Joe Russo mentioned. “We promised him it could be the final time we made him do it — ever.”

Anthony Russo added: “That was a tough factor for him to do, to come back again to select up that line. When he did come again, we had been capturing on a stage immediately reverse the place he auditioned for Tony Stark. So his final line as Tony Stark was shot actually a pair hundred ft from his authentic audition that obtained him the function.”

Robert Downey Jr. most just lately starred as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer alongside Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh and extra. In a five-star evaluation, NME wrote, “Oppenheimer is a monumental achievement in grown-up filmmaking.”