Nowadays, it’s hard to look at Robert Downey Jr. and not think about Iron Man and the Iron Man, starring Downey as the eponymous hero, and has since produced over 20 movies, with a lot more currently in development.
Iron Man was the hero who started it all, and Downey reprised his role for nine more movies, including his cameo in Black Widow, in 2020), and after that he will be free to take part in as many different projects as he pleases – and definitely more than he has done in the last decade.
Downey’s film credits in the last 10 years are mostly Marvel properties: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, where he played the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and which left viewers with a big cliffhanger, waiting to be solved in the near future.
Following The Nice Guys, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Downey “played” the body of Sid Shattuck, found by Gosling’s character at a party.
Downey already has some projects waiting to be released and in development that are not part of the Marvel universe. He stars in the fantasy adventure comedy Sherlock Holmes 3, as fans have been waiting for years to know how he survived the Reichenbach Fall in this version (and how Watson is going to react). The end of Robert Downey Jr.’s time in the MCU doesn’t mean the audience won’t get to see more of him – he’s just going to change genres and characters from now on.
