Jon Favreau says Robert Downey Jr. was in talks to play a different Marvel character before Iron Man
“He was the puzzle piece that made it all work,” Favreau explained. “Once it was him, that’s when my life got a lot easier,” Favreau said. “Because he understood. Julian McMahon as Doctor Doom in ‘Fantastic Four’.20th Century Fox/Marvel/Kobal/Shutterstock He understood the voice of the character. And then one by one, people were just signing on board because now it became something interesting.” Meaning, we wouldn’t havea studioif it wasn’t for him....