Robert Downey Jr. saved Captain America: Civil War from being a zombie movie

The final act of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Captain America: Civil War - which sees Iron Man fight both Cap and Bucky after learning a brainwashed Winter Soldier killed his parents - is one of the bes꧂t sequences in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date. Of course that scene - and indeed, the entire movie - would not have been possible without Robert Downey Jr., but the Russo Brothers had a backup plan in case they weren't able to work out a deal with the MCU's highest-paid ൩actor:
"There was a period where we did discuss a third act that revolved around the Madbomb from Cap mythology", Joe Russo told . "It didn’t have anything to do with Civil War, and if we couldn’t get Downey – in the very, very early conversations before we nailed him – somebo♌dy pitched the idea of a third-act that revolved around the Madbomb꧃, which makes people crazy. It almost like zombifies them – but not literally".
"Th🐲e notion of the Madbomb would have been Cap having to fight civilians and how he would he handle that", Russo conti🎶nued. "We were always trying to put him into these interesting moral conundrums because of his nature. That would have made a compelling third act because if civilians are the antagonists, how could he stop them without killing them?"
Cap vs zombified civilians is not an uninteresting way to go but that idea pales in comparison to what we actually got, which was two heroic friends beating the crap out of each other and the dismantling of the Avengers as we know it. When you consider the fact that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Civil War almost d🌱idn't include Black Panther as𓆏 well, it becomes increasingly fascinating to th🐠ink of what might have been.
Directed by Jo🎉e Russo and Anthony Russo, and starring Chris Evans, Robert Downey, Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Chadwick Boseman, Tom Holland, Anthony Mackie, and Sebastian Sไtan, Captain America: Civil War arrives in digital format in the US on September 2. The Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, and DVD hit the UK on September 5 and the US on September 13.
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