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Summary
- Deadpool & Wolverine almost had a Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man cameo.
- Tony Stark would have appeared in the Deadpool & Wolverine scene with Happy Hogan early in the movie.
- Ryan Reynolds tried hard to get Downey Jr. for the scene, but Doctor Doom was the priority.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe almost had Robert Downey Jr. reprising the role of Iron Man in Deadpool & Wolverine.
In a new interview with IndieWire, Deadpool & Wolverine screenwriters Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, who wrote the two first films, were asked if they had initially tried to have Downey Jr. back as Tony Stark in the scene with Jon Favreau’s Happy Hogan. It turns out that the MCU audience was close to having the beloved actor back in Deadpool & Wolverine, as the writing duo revealed the following:
Paul Wernick: We had wanted him to do a cameo. We had written that scene [to start] with Happy and Downey.
Rhett Reese: Ryan Reynolds read the scene with both of them, so in the hopes we could get Downey. But he also wanted Favreau, because they’re a great combo, and they were all in the scene together.
Wernick: Behind the scenes, we didn’t know about the Doctor Doom. And there’s no way he was going to do both. And then we said, “Oh, Downey doesn’t say ‘no’ to Ryan Reynolds, does he? No one says no to Ryan Reynolds.” And Ryan gave him the hard press. We wrote scenes, and Downey read the scenes, but what we didn’t know behind the scenes was this Doctor Doom thing.
Source: IndieWire