Three years after the fact, Robert Downey Jr. candidly reflects on the failure of his big-budget blockbuster Dolittle and the lesson it taught him.
Dolittle star Robert Downey Jr. has reflected candidly on the movie's notorious failure. Dolittle, which was a big-budget adaptation of the Hugh Lofting children's book The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, was meant to kickstart the star's next big franchise after leaving the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT 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. 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.
Has Robert Downey Jr. Learned His Lesson from Dolittle? This shifting of priorities for Robert Downey Jr. came at a tough time for the industry. More or less immediately after Dolittle bombed out of theaters, the industry shut down worldwide during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. These factors seem to have combined and resulted in Downey Jr. being absent from movie screens for three years, with the Oppenheimer release on July 21 marking his first movie to premiere since Dolittle.
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