Robert Downey, Jr. appeared on Ellen today and reluctantly confirmed a rumor that’s been floating around for months: Iron Man 4 is a go.
Downey stated that negotiations are still taking place, but we doubt Tony Stark would guarantee the thing on live TV unless it was more or less a done deal.
It shouldn’t be a surprise given the blockbuster success of Iron Man 3, but there were rumblings that Downey was eager to hang up his rocket suit.
With Avengers: Age of Ultron hitting theaters in May of 2015, IM4 will mark the seventh time Downey’s rocked the manicured Stark goatee.
Only Hugh Jackman has played the same superhero as many times, having portrayed Wolverine in seven different films in the X-Men franchise.
No release date has been set for IM4 yet, but industry analysts are guessing the movie will hit theaters in either 2017 or 2018.
That means, of course, that Downey will be in his 50s by the the time production even starts.
Hopefully, they’ll be able to include a scene in which Tony torches his issue of AARP magazine with his hand cannon.
So needless to say, we’re looking at an exciting slate of blockbusters in the next few years. 2015 alone will bring Age of Ultron and Star Wars: Episode 7. Is there any way we could slip into hyper-sleep until next summer?
