Why the hell did they cast Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom?
This whole article could be that single question repeated with different inflections. Why the hell did they cast Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom? Why the hell did they cast Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom? Why the hell did they cast Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom? And so on. But after Kevin Feige took the stage at Comic-Con and announced that the erstwhile linchpin of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe would come back to play one of the most hotly-anticipated villains in franchise history, it’s a question well worth asking.
It’s no mystery as to why Robert Downey Jr. agreed to it, even after a successful Oscar campaign where he told anyone who would listen how good it felt to make Real Movies again: Any of us would do the same if someone dumped a pile of money the size of Mount Kilimanjaro on our front lawn. And being Doctor Doom should be at least marginally less time-consuming than being Iron Man.
