{"id":38343,"date":"2016-04-21T18:33:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=38343"},"modified":"2016-04-21T18:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:33:02","slug":"robert-downey-jr-joins-spider-man-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/21\/robert-downey-jr-joins-spider-man-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr, Joins SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING While Michael Keaton Backs Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/robert-downey-jr-675x338.jpeg\" alt=\"robert downey jr\" width=\"675\" height=\"338\" \/>Wasn&#8217;t Robert Downey Jr. supposed to stop doing Marvel films a while back? I guess someone forgot to tell him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/robert-downey-jr-joins-spider-885829\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> states the actor has signed on to reprise his role as Tony Stark in <strong>Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/strong>. His appearance in the film adds more connective tissue between the film and the Marvel Cinematic Universe and expands on the connection between the character that starts in <strong>Captain America: Civil War<\/strong>. No word as to the size of the role or if the suit of armor will be making an appearance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38119\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/michael-keaton-675x373.jpg\" alt=\"michael-keaton\" width=\"675\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those of you who greet this news with excitement, hoping for a snarky gibe-off with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/13\/michael-keaton-talks-spider-man-homecoming\/\"> Michael Keaton<\/a>, I have bad news for you. <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/04\/spider-man-michael-keaton-out-iron-man-robert-downey-jr-1201741663\/\">Deadline<\/a> states that the actor&#8217;s name has been removed from consideration for the villain role in the film. The search continues for the actor who will be playing Tom Holland&#8217;s antagonist in the film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spider-Man: Homecoming <\/strong>opens July 7, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Robert Downey Jr.&#8217;s Tony Stark will be continuing his mentor ship of Peter Parker in the 2017 film. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/21\/robert-downey-jr-joins-spider-man-homecoming\/\" title=\"Robert Downey Jr, Joins SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING While Michael Keaton Backs Out\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7496,426,357,8234],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-captain-america-civil-war","8":"tag-michael-keaton","9":"tag-robert-downey-jr","10":"tag-spider-man-homecoming"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38343"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=38343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}