Robert Downey Jr Talks Iron Man 2

[GreenScar]

Not much, but it looks as though they're delving deeper into the Marvel Universe in the second one. Hope the second one is better than the first...

During today's Tropic Thunder press junket, Robert Downey Jr. was talking about his role in the Ben Stiller comedy. During the course of the interview Iron Man 2 was brought up by one of the journalists:

Downey: Iron Man 2 is in the works.

It's not going to be with the Hulk is it?

Downey: No.

Hmmm...not enough info me, so I wanted to dig a bit deeper, see what I could get out of him, so I asked more about the sequel:

But have ideas been thrown around for other cameos, since there's an Avengers project in the works?

Downey: Ya, it's a big world. It's kind of hard to navigate because you want to be able to set up The Avengers in Iron Man 2, but you don't want to um....

Take the focus off of Iron Man?

Downey: Ever. [laughs] It's such a big leap, before we were grounded in reality and now we're starting to go into the Marvel Universe. I don't know much about this, I just know that we go scene to scene to scene, and we have some great scenes which I think will be really surprising at how we took all of this goodwill and this success and we decided to do something ever more kind of risky and something that represents the way Jon thinks and the way I like to develop a character. So, it's going to be good.

Have other heroes been mentioned about making an appearance? Captain America? Thor?

Downey: I can neither confirm nor deny that. [That always means yes to me. -Ed] Honestly, nothing's set in stone right now.

So that was all I could get from him. The way he answered the question about Thor and Captain America and the look he gave me, was an indication (to me anyway), that something is more than likely in the works as far as cameos. Especially bringing up the fact that they are now moving more into Marvel Universe territory. Sounds exciting!

[That Purple Stuff]

Thor or Antman will be in it. Cap wont make an appearance until his movie

[Heart_Collector]

Thor was announced (more or less) to cameo in IM2 a long time ago, but the way Downey's talking it sounds like Mandarin and Fin Fang Foom might be possible. Any argument about breaking the confines of plausible fantasy are irrelevant since the other Avengers will show up eventually, anyway. I'm all for it.

[Lucy Diamond]

I'm thinking War Machine will defintely make it to the second one.

You remember that little cut where the Colonel looks back at the Mark I suit and says "Next time." Oh yeah...War Machine.

[That Purple Stuff]

Yeah War Machine WILL be in the 2nd one. How much? IDK, but they did say War Machine is in it