Captain America: Civil War features Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) in a prominent role, but as the title says, this is Cap’s show. So given that situation, does that make Iron Man the villain by default?
Pondering that question while sitting on the set of Civil War, Downey replied, “It’s difficult for me to think of Tony in those terms, but when you read the comic, it’s like, ‘Man, Tony, you’re blowing it, dude!’”
Producer Nate Moore also brought up the Marvel comics source material, remarking, “When we decided to do Civil War, you read the books again and you realize he really is the villain. He makes a series of decisions that all of us would go, 'Well, that’s questionable if not evil, to do X,Y, and Z.' So we wanted to kind of take those off the table. He’s not cloning Thor, those kinds of ideas that are really fun when you read them on the page, but I think in publishing, it took me a couple years before I was cool with Tony Stark again. In the film, I think the big focus for us in breaking the story was making Tony’s argument so compelling that you go, ‘He’s kinda right.’ And then making Cap so compelling that you go, ‘He’s kinda right. For very different reasons. And they’re both motivated by two very different things.”
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Pondering that question while sitting on the set of Civil War, Downey replied, “It’s difficult for me to think of Tony in those terms, but when you read the comic, it’s like, ‘Man, Tony, you’re blowing it, dude!’”
Producer Nate Moore also brought up the Marvel comics source material, remarking, “When we decided to do Civil War, you read the books again and you realize he really is the villain. He makes a series of decisions that all of us would go, 'Well, that’s questionable if not evil, to do X,Y, and Z.' So we wanted to kind of take those off the table. He’s not cloning Thor, those kinds of ideas that are really fun when you read them on the page, but I think in publishing, it took me a couple years before I was cool with Tony Stark again. In the film, I think the big focus for us in breaking the story was making Tony’s argument so compelling that you go, ‘He’s kinda right.’ And then making Cap so compelling that you go, ‘He’s kinda right. For very different reasons. And they’re both motivated by two very different things.”
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