Robert Downey Jr. known for his role as Iron Man in the Marvel Universe, did recent interview and shared his thoughts on the 2020 movie by Stephen Gaghan to The New York Times Magazine. Dolittle was badly received and reviewed as one would know given its 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Downey said, “I finished the Marvel contract and then hastily went into what had all the promise of being another big, fun, well-executed potential franchise in Dolittle.” Downey continued, “I had some reservations. Me and my team seemed a little too excited about the deal and not quite excited enough about the merits of the execution. But at that point I was bulletproof. I was the guru of all genre movies.”
Dolittle was based on Hugh Lofting the second Doctor Dolittle book, and Downey stated, “Honestly, the two most important films I’ve done in the last 25 years are The Shaggy Dog because that was the film that got Disney saying they would insure me. Then the second most important film was Dolittle because Dolittle was a two-and-a-half-year wound of squandered opportunity.”
Downey has since begun making a change by not limiting himself to being in front of the big screen and has gone behind the scenes joining his prouder wife, Susan Downey, in producing. As a result, Downey’s new project has him producing a Netflix documentary called Sr, which addresses his relationship with his father living with Parkinson’s disease.
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