The recent finale of VisionQuest on Disney+ included many surprises as it brought Vision’s (Paul Bettany) tale to a close, but one of the biggest didn’t happen: the return of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark.
While chatting with Brandon Davis, VisionQuest showrunner Terry Matalas said he wanted Tony Stark to speak with Katerina Wells (Mary McDonnell), but it would have been a pre-Iron Man Tony.
“There was a moment when I wanted to hear Stark calling and talk to Mary McDonnell and say, ‘You know, your time is up on this code,’” he said. “And it’s the old Tony; it was the Tony before the Jericho missiles.“
However, he added, “Things cost money. We’re on a television show budget,” and it “would have been a big ask to get Downey to come in and do it.”
Matalas said he didn’t even reach out to ask if it was possible, but after meeting Downey and getting to know him a bit, he admitted he “actually would have tried” to make it happen. That said, he wondered if a Stark cameo “might have taken away from what that story was.“
Although Stark was absent, the VisionQuest finale did include the return of a major MCU character and even did some setup for Avengers: Doomsday.
In his review, our own Alex Maidy found VisionQuest to be a “fun and emotional journey for one of the MCU’s underutilized characters closes this trilogy better than I could have hoped.“
He added, “Paul Bettany is excellent in his broadest portrayal of Vision, and James Spader is hilariously brilliant in a performance that improves upon his first turn as Ultron. I hope we get to see both actors return in future MCU projects. VisionQuest is not as unique or distinct as WandaVision, but it does work better than Agatha All Along.” You can check out the rest of his review right here.
Would you have liked to have seen (or heard) Tony Stark make a cameo in VisionQuest, or was he better left out of the story?