![]() "Part of the pressure came from Jon Favreau, who called us up after he read the script…and said to us, ‘Are you really going to kill Iron Man?’” recalled Anthony Russo, while Joe Russo took it from there: “I remember pacing on the corner of a stage, on the phone with Favreau trying to talk him off a ledge. flipped Favreau into full-on begging mode. ![]() ![]() In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the Russo brothers said the decision to kill off an Avengers movie O.G. That’s a long way of saying that, if Favreau had gotten his way, Iron Man might still be alive in the MCU. He reportedly pleaded with the Russo brothers to spare Stark his now-famous onscreen death, telling the directors that audiences were likely to start melting down if the beating heart behind Earth’s Mightiest Heroes were permanently to fall silent. Iron Man director Favreau went to bat hard for Tony Stark after first learning the tragic end that Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo had planned for the iconic Robert Downey, Jr.-portrayed character. Either way, Happy Hogan actor (and Mandalorian mastermind) Jon Favreau reportedly had a heroically hard time coming to terms with Tony Stark’s demise, once he’d taken an early peek at the character's fate in the script for Avengers: Endgame. Or maybe all that time spent on The Mandalorian with the adorable Baby Yoda was making him sentimental. Maybe everything Happy Hogan and Iron Man had been through together seemed like too much shared history to toss away.
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