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Kevin Feige has hinted at Marvel moving away from Kang and towards Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom for the MCU's next Big Bad before Jonathan Majors was dropped by Marvel following the actor's conviction for assault.
"There's nobody we're closer with than Robert. Ever since Endgame, we would see each other quite a lot. It was unspoken for a long time of 'What could we do and how could we do it?'" Feige told Fandango.
"Years went by and we started thinking of this way to do it. I want to say early 2023 and we started saying, 'We actually think this could really work.' I went to his abode and pitched him this idea… He was very excited about it."
Doom will appear in both Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. The first unveiling of the character – aside from his brief appearance in the Fantastic Four post-credits scene – took place at CinemaCon, with a trailer confirming that Downey Jr. will speak with an accent in the film.
