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Before the recent announcement that Robert Downey Jr. would return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Doctor Doom rather than Iron Man, he was in talks to play the iconic villain in 2005’s ‘Fantastic Four,’ according to ‘Iron Man’ director Jon Favreau and producer Kevin Feige.