Variety.com Reports Robert Downey Jr. In Talks to Join Cast of Captain America 3, Kick Off Civil War
In an earlier post today, we reported that Marvel would be reviving the Civil War crossover mega-event in new comic books for Summer 2015. Now in an even bigger development, Variety.com is reporting that Robert Downey Jr. is in the final negotiating stages to join the cast of Captain America 3. The key quote from the article reads:
Robert Downey Jr. is on the verge of signing on to “Captain America 3,” a move that would bring the Civil War storyline from Marvel’s comicbooks to the bigscreen and trigger the start of a new phase of movies from Marvel Studios.
While there have been lots of rumors flying about a possible Civil War based movie hitting the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the future, there was much resistance to the idea from fans. The main problem being movie rights of certain characters in the Civil War story line, namely Spider-Man, are not owned by Marvel Studios. There have also been the normal bi-annual rumors of Sony being in talks to let Marvel use Spider-Man in the MCU just last week. Is this just a coincidence? Or is it all connected?
Either way, it seems that Marvel is set to ret-con the Civil War event so that Spider-Man may not be necessary. While that seems like a possibility, it's confusing that the promotional art for new Civil War comics prominently feature Spider-Man in his Iron Spider costume.
The Russo brothers and Robert Downey, Jr. have been teasing that big news would be coming sooner than later about Captain America and the future of Iron Man respectively. Man, they weren't kidding! This is pretty huge. What do you think this breaking development forebodes for the MCU?
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