‘I Came Into This And Called Joe And Anthony And Said, “Look, Don’t Write Me The Old Thor, We’ve

““Robert Downey Jr is hardly the obvious choice to play an iconic crime fighter,” sniffed USA Today in April 2007, when the then-washed up and scandal-ridden 42-year-old actor was announced as the improbable star of a forthcoming comic book film – you know, for kids.

Today, that sentiment reads like Albert Einstein’s famous 1895 school report, in which a Munich schoolmaster wrote that the 16-year-old future genius physicist and conceiver of the theory of relativity “will never amount to anything”.

But 11 years, 22 films and $18.8 billion in Marvel’s coffers later, Downey’s Tony Stark looks a lot like the single most inspired piece of casting in modern motion pictures. An actor no-one wanted to work with was playing a superhero with no special powers in a film no-one had asked for. Then he became the centre of the cinematic universe.”

– THE TELEGRAPH:  How Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man became the beating heart of Marvel.

Cinematic Parallels: Resident Evil: Village (2021) // God of War: Ragnarok (2022)

Why do they change Chris’ face all the time?

WE ARE THOR STANS FIRST AND PEOPLE SECOND

The power of Reigen truly can do anything

and that’s how it happened

I saw this and I had to share it with you guys. It’s making really fucking sad rn

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