Robert Downey Jr.IS Iron Man... But For How Long?

You know who he is. Robert Downey Jr.’s involvement in the Iron Man franchise has been kept tightly under wraps ever since speculation first started that he may not be returning for the fourth movie. Iron Man without RDJ? Impossible! Preposterous! And not completely out of the question. If Downey knows anything for sure, he didn’t let it slip during his chat with Entertainment Weekly on the set of Avengers: Age of Ultron.

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“It’s that thing of: Why give up the belt when it feels like you can barely get jabbed?” he says—then adds a caveat. “Most people are saying that right when they get knocked out.”

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So what we’re picking up from this is: unlike previously reported, Downey does not want to leave Iron _Man._At this point, however, it’s all in the hands of the studio. Fingers crossed that Downey gets to continue his long and storied run as the genius billionaire playboy philanthropist. Nothing would be the same without him.