2024-01-15 06:28:00
At present it is unimaginable to see Iron Man have a face other than Robert Downey Jr.. But, although it is difficult to believe, that it almost didn’t happen when the performer signed on to play a superhero before the 2008 film arrived in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (UCM) and became a success, opening up the possibility that they would continue with more films and create an unmatched universe.
This took place between the ’90s and ’00s, when the superhero genre began to take off.
It was there that Hollywood studios began to fight for the rights to comics and the idea of adapting the adventures of Deathlok with Downey Jr. at the head of the cast.
This character, who turns out quite unknown to the publicis a powerful character in the line of cinematic icons such as Terminator, Robocop or even Iron Man himself.
Who is Deathlok?
Its story, created in the 70s, focuses on an American soldier named Luther Manning that following dying in battle it is resurrected as a cyborg who seeks to use his body as a lethal machine in combat, but the plan goes awry when the character’s human soul protrudes above the metal and resists cruelty and violence.
Paramount Pictures He was going to be the one in charge of adapting it to the big screen (a studio that later partnered with Marvel to develop Iron Man in 2008 prior to the purchase of Disney). The direction was going to be in the hands of Paul McGuigan and the script was going to be by David Self.
“It wasn’t a rumor, it was true. I had been working with Marvel and screenwriter David Self on the film, but then the studio put it on the back burner. I was very interested, but Marvel changed their mind,” McGuigan told the outlet. Gizmodo regarding the project.
He added: “The script was really good. David Self is no slouch, he’s a great screenwriter. And the idea of nanotechnology was fascinating. “It would have been a good movie.”.
Some of the sketches of what the actor would look like under this robotic armor. Marvel visual artist Constantine Sekeris shared on his Instagram account the first and only designs he made for the character. “[Deathlok] It never continued beyond this,” he wrote alongside the post.
“We never got any major notes other than mention of the character, so I made it with a crazy design aesthetic. I don’t really know why, but at the time it was ‘cool,’ probably influenced by other films of that era or the mentality of the other projects I was working on,” he concluded.
Yes ok The reason why the project did not go ahead is unknown.one thing is certain: if Robert Downey Jr. had been in this film, the course of Marvel would have changed completely, since it would be very unlikely that the studio would hire him once more for Iron Man, a character that is currently He knows that he is one of the most important in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and that he contributed a lot to the franchise.
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