SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details for Deadpool & Wolverine. Robert Downey Jr. was close to reprising his Iron Man role in Deadpool & Wolverine.
In a new interview, co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick reveal that Downey was written into one of the scenes and even read for it.
However, Downey turned down the part as he was already in talks to return to the MCU as Doctor Doom. “We had wanted him to do a cameo.
We had written that scene [to start] with Happy and Downey,” Wernick told IndieWire in a recent interview. Downey was to reprise his role of Tony Stark in a scene at the beginning of the film where Reynolds’ Deadpool uses a time machine to jump into the Sacred Timeline to pitch the idea of joining the Avengers.
Read more on deadline.com