Chapter 122: The Dark Knight

"Luo Bote, what are your plans after this?"

"Not sure. Probably just stay home, freeload, and wait to die — wait for my agent to call me."

Robert Downey Jr. laughed self-deprecatingly.

"No, I mean — your schedule's open early next year, right?"

"Huh? You're already shooting the sequel this fast?"

"No, not a sequel — the whole series."

Xu Can handed the document in his hand to Tang Ni. Inside was the upcoming Marvel film production plan, along with Iron Man's scenes.

August 2007, post-credits scene of "Lei Shen";

January 2008, "Iron Man 2";

Second half of 2008, "Chouzhelian Alliance";

First half of 2009, "Iron Man 3";

"Chouzhelian Alliance 2: Age of Ultron," "Captain America 3: Civil War," "Chouzhelian Alliance 3: Infinity War," "Chouzhelian Alliance 4: Endgame"!

"Hulk's World War," "Chouzhelian vs. X-Men," "Onslaught," "Dark Reign"…

But just from Iron Man's scenes, one could see that every film was a node, forming an incomparably vast network!

It was the first time Robert Downey Jr. had glimpsed Xu Can's cinematic universe!

Before this, no one in the entire world had ever played it this way.

At most, like "007" or "Harry Potter," forming a single-line series of films.

Under one shared universe, different characters weaving into a vast cinematic world — Robert Downey Jr. wouldn't even dare imagine it!

He even felt a kind of fear toward the young man beside him, more than ten years his junior,

Simply a monster!

"So? Any thoughts on joining in? There's plenty of time for you to shoot other kinds of films in between — you don't have to keep playing Iron Man."

But Robert Downey Jr. realized that even if he shot other films, Iron Man's influence would probably only sink deeper and deeper.

Yet with such a massive plan, if he didn't join, he'd probably regret it.

"I'm in. Count me."

"Great. Then our contract needs to be readjusted too — 'six-eight-three.' I'll have legal talk to you later. Don't worry, I won't shortchange you."

"Thanks, Xu. Back then you could've picked Tom Cruise to play the role, but you stuck with me…"

"Hey, we're bros. I just felt you were Tony Stark."

"So you think I'm actually an asshole?"