Jon Favreau objected to Robert Downey Jr.’s decision. to kill Iron Man in Avengers: Endgame, say the Russo brothers.

Jon Favreau, Director of Tony Stark’s First Independent MCU Film Iron ManHe wasn’t sure the hero should die. Avengers: EndgameAccording to the Rousseau brothers.

in a video interview vanity fairThe duo talked about their most memorable scenes in projects like society, captain america civil war And his latest movie, the one on Netflix. gray man. But the duo begins to fall apart at Tony Stark’s last moment. Avengers: Endgamewhere he reveals that he acquired all of the Infinity Stones and placed them in his suit to restore half of the world’s health that was destroyed by Thanos. Avengers: Infinity War.

The brothers talk again about how they worked through several lines to be the last Starks before finally using something inadvertently provided by the film’s editor, Geoffrey Ford. “It’s probably the most pressure we’ve ever had trying to develop a line [Christopher] Marcus and [Stephen] McPhee in any of those movies,” says Joe. “You don’t want to spoil Tony Stark’s results.”

But in the process of discussing how star Robert Downey Jr. was staged, they also revealed that part of the pressure surrounding Stark’s final moment was regular MCU and Iron Man director Jon Favreau.

“Part of the pressure came from Jon Favreau, who called us after reading the script and said, ‘Are you really going to kill Iron Man?’” Anthony said.

Joe goes on to describe a phone call with Favreau in which he had to “talk to him” about his decision to focus on one of the MCU’s most popular characters. “I remember being on the phone in the corner of the stage and Favreau trying to talk to him from the rafters because he was like, ‘You can’t do this. It’s going to impress people, and you don’t want them to leave the movies and go into traffic,'” he recalled, before saying, “We did it anyway.”

Both admit they understand Favreau’s concerns, especially since “he didn’t go through the process like we did,” says Anthony. “We would have had the same reaction if someone had talked about it.”

So why did they continue? according to john infinity war s the last game The director duo felt they “got that arc that is redemptive and emotional and exciting and hopeful, even though he sacrificed his life.”