Marvel dashes fans’ hopes as they confirm Robert Downey Jr. WON’T return to the MCU

Robert Downey Jr. will not return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), it has been confirmed.

According to Stephen Broussard, Marvel Studios’ vice president of production and development, options for the 57-year-old Tony Stark actor to return are “not on the table.”

Iron Man died in Avengers: Endgame. He sacrificed himself for others and the emotional final scenes showed his funeral.

Broussard admitted that the MCU is in a big transition period as they move away from the Avengers narrative.

In a recent interview, he wondered how Marvel’s Phase Five will connect all the pieces that were released during Phase Four.

Goodbye: According to Stephen Broussard, Marvel Studios’ vice president of production and development, the options for the 57-year-old Tony Stark actor to return are “not on the table.”

Then he told her io9: ‘I think one of the meta-narratives of Phase Four was about new characters. It was about new people putting on cloaks.

‘If you look, like, Cassie [Lang in Quantumania] get a suit and kate bishop [in Hawkeye]new characters such as Jack are introduced in Werewolf by Night.

“After these first 10 years of Marvel storytelling, the torches are being passed, like when Robert Downey Jr. is gone. [on the] table and the like.

“So it was like a new generation came forward, which, again, has always happened in the comics.”

It comes as it was reported that Harrison Ford will be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

The 80-year-old star, who has appeared in some of the biggest movie franchises of all time, including Star Wars and Indiana Jones, looks set to hold a very important place.

It has been claimed that Harrison will replace William Hurt, who died in March at age 71, as General Thaddeus E ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross in the Marvel movies, according to Hot Mic with John Rocha and Jeff Sneider.

Change: Broussard admitted that the MCU is in a big transition period as they move away from the Avengers narrative (the first Iron Man was released in 2008)

Interesting: In a recent interview he wondered how Marvel’s Phase Five will connect all the pieces that were released during Phase Four (Iron Man 3 was released in 2013)

film cut shortly after he made the same claim.

The Thunderbolt character has already appeared in The Incredible Hulk, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Black Widow.

Now there will be a standalone Thunderbolts movie with Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan. Synopsis: A group of supervillains are recruited to carry out missions for the government.

It will reportedly launch on July 26, 2024, according to a fan page.

And according to reporter Sneider, Ford has now signed a deal with Marvel that will see him star in the upcoming Captain America: New World Order.

Despite this, Harrison previously claimed that Marvel had “killed” the success of its superhero movies by releasing too many of them.

The acting legend made the claim during a discussion about the next Indiana Jones movie, which is due for a 2023 release.

Actor: Iron Man died in Avengers: Endgame. He sacrificed himself for others and emotional final scenes showed his funeral

More: Said: ‘After these first 10 years of Marvel storytelling, the torches are being passed, like with Robert Downey Jr. no longer being [on the] table and things like that

Big Moment: It comes as it was reported that Harrison Ford will join the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)

Harrison, who first played the adventurer in Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, said, “I don’t really want to give them what they want to see, I want to give them something they didn’t expect to see.”

“The Marvel movies are a spectacular example of a hit that worked the other way around: They killed it off.”

Harrison suggested that he would not allow the franchise to go down the same path as the Marvel movies.

Speaking about his plans, Harrison said: ‘We’re not going to do another Indiana Jones unless we’re in a position to kill him. We want it to be the best.’

The actor also insisted that he would not commit to another Indiana Jones movie unless he was totally convinced by the project.

He explained: “We are determined to get it right before we get it done.”