Budget Concerns Shortening Downey Jr.’s Time In ‘The Avengers’? Oh Marvel.

For a company that has seemed deadset on compromising the quality of individual movies in favor of building up to a corporate-climax next summer with The Avengers, I’m often confused as to why they’d be cheap. Rumors about budgetary concerns have plagued the production, cropping up in stories about where they’d be shooting, or getting Norton to come back to play Banner. Now they allegedly could influence how much Tony Stark appears in the flick.

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An article on the economics of big budget movie-making features a quote from “one producer familiar with Marvel’s dealings”, which suggests that, in order to keep costs down, the movie’s biggest name star Robert Downey Jr. will work only three or four weeks, while the film maximizes the screentime of still relatively cheap actors like Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans.

If this is true, it’s lame as fuck. As I mentioned earlier, Marvel has been so busy jacking off to the concept of the SUPER MOVIE with all of them appearing that it’s taken its toll on the individual scripts. Oh, whatever. That sucks. But to now parlay that bullshit all into cutting costs in the Splodey Supreme Orgasm Time flick they’ve been working towards just reeks of douchery.