Marvel reportedly spent big to bring back Robert Downey Jr. and the Russo brothers

Variety reports that Marvel is spending $80 million to lure the Russos backmost to nonstop Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, the 2 films that volition bring the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s ongoing Multiverse Saga to a close. Both films are besides acceptable to beryllium produced by the Russos’ AGBO outfit alternatively than Marvel’s emblematic in-house accumulation team, and volition reportedly statesman shooting successful London alternatively than Atlanta, wherever Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame both filmed.

Marvel is besides said to beryllium spending “significantly more” connected Downey’s payday to spot him re-join the MCU arsenic Doctor Doom alternatively than Iron Man — a twist that has immoderate comics precedent, but besides seems to beryllium an exigency pivot successful effect to Marvel’s now-scrapped plans to spell all-in connected Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror. 

RDJ, whose show arsenic Tony Stark kicked disconnected the MCU, has commanded sizable Marvel salaries successful the past that spoke to the studio’s committedness to gathering the cinematic franchise astir him. That attack paid disconnected for Marvel successful the MCU’s aboriginal days arsenic the Infinity Saga films reliably broke container bureau records. But it’s besides portion of however the workplace has coiled up successful its existent epoch of projects that consciousness devoid of properly-cultivated gravitational centers.

Going backmost to the RDJ / Russo good could enactment retired for Marvel, peculiarly if audiences are really conscionable funny successful seeing acquainted faces. If Deadpool & Wolverine’s aboriginal container bureau office numbers are immoderate indication, that seems to beryllium the case. But arsenic overmuch wealth arsenic Marvel is spending connected its pivot to Doom, 1 hopes that the workplace is besides going to enactment retired immoderate bully films that unrecorded up to each this hype.