Filming has commenced on Avengers: Doomsday, and its titular star, Robert Downey Jr, has been sharing various photos from the set on social media. Nothing too spoilery of course, mostly just pics with himself and his castmates. But his most recent post, which we found out about via the folks at Collider, shows RDJ’s “Doom workstation essentials.” Most of these so-called “essentials” were things like a Tate’s Bakeshop latte and a pack of Kleenex. However, there was one clue as to how he was approaching his take on Doctor Doom. And that’s a copy of Marvel Comics’ Doom one-shot from last year, by Sanford Greene and Jonathan Hickman. You can see Robert Downey Jr.’s post below:
So what can we glean from this particular comic book’s inclusion in Robert Downey Jr’s post? After all, there are 60 years of great Dr. Doom comics to choose from, so why choose one that’s less than a year old? Well, in the official description for the comic, it says “With Valeria Richards at his side, Doom goes on a quest to harness more power than any human has ever wielded before in order to try to stop Galactus from bringing about the death of the universe.” All of that sounds like a likely scenario for Victor von Doom’s arc in the film, although Valeria Richards might be replaced with her brother, Franklin.
Doom co-writer Jonathan Hickman has been a big influence on the MCU. A lot of the characterization of Thanos came from Hickman’s work. Also, many of Thanos’ minions from Infinity War and Endgame are Hickman creations. In addition, the idea of Multiversal incursions is something Hickman came up with for his Avengers storyline, “Time Runs Out.” And it’s likely that Avengers: Secret Wars will draw a lot of inspiration from Hickman’s 2015 version of Secret Wars. Probably more than the original version. Hickman is one of the best writers to ever write words for Victor von Doom. So at least we know RDJ is looking at the right material when crafting his version of Marvel’s greatest villain.
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