It’s a Hollywood ploy as old as time – and one that probably explains why the Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger still have acting careers. If your venerable old action saga is struggling to recoup the greenbacks it did in the early days, just bring back the guy (and let’s face it, it always seems to be a guy) who made it such a success in the first place.
This is the whole reason movies such as Terminator Genisys and Terminator: Dark Fate exist (for better or worse). But if Marvel fans had hoped that the suddenly struggling superhero mega-saga might be restored to its former glories by bringing back Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man, they will now have to look elsewhere for their returning comic book messiah. Marvel supremo Kevin Feige has put the kibosh on the idea in an interview with Vanity Fair to discuss the latest phase in Downey Jr’s much-garlanded career, pointing out that to reintegrate this version of Tony Stark would ruin the finale of Avengers: Endgame, in which the character sacrifices himself for the greater good.
