Robert Downey Jr. Wanted Bill Murray For A Role In IRON MAN But The Two Couldn't Connect

@hulagan: I think Murray's mental health is slowly deteriorating and I say that based on personal interactions I've had with him. So when he says something nonsensical like "I don’t like to have a situation placed over my head" you have to get out your dementia decoder ring, set it to the appropriate degree, and decipher.

Here is my translation of it..."I'm getting old,frail, the outside world is starting to frighten me, and I can't handle the pressure"

He could be an understandable senator for Iron Man.

i don't think he's losing his mental health,i think he just wants to live his life,not commit to anything so he can do what he wants,and he doesn't need to do anything because he's set for life,let the man have fun

Maybe the dude just doesnt want to make big movies anymore. Rather be in smaller films with smaller roles or more meaningful.

Iron Man 4! Bill Murray is awesome!

He'd make a great war machine ;)

He was up for Pepper Potts. It's a damn shame..

Who doesn't love Bill Murray. My dad met him years ago on a golf course. He was working on the computers that control the irrigation and accidentally sprayed Mr. Murray. He walked over to my dad, told a joke, and just laughed about it. I say let the man do what he wants. He's earned that.

I'm sorry Intruder, have you seen anything from that movie yet? I remember everyone said he was going to win one for nine, saying it was better than There Will Be Blood. And yes that year Russell Crowe was a million times better than Denzel. Training Day is incredibly overrated. Denzel basically won that award for playing a parody of a crooked cop. It was so over the top and stupid. Watch A Beautiful Mind again.

the dude rules. i like his recent choices so far why change it.

i've never seen hurricane i think i'll watch it later today.

the score for a brilliant mind is ammmmmmmmmmmazing. i listen to it at least a few times a month.

Really Intruder? Had to bring up Heath Ledger. Everyone knows he deserved that so that is a moot point. Denzel didn't bring it in training day. If you watched any of his other amazing performances (Philadelphia, Glory, Malcom X, The Hurricane) you can tell he phoned that one in. It was a parody and nothing more.

I'm assuming bbarber2322 doesn't watch any movies besides comic book movies. For Bill Murray watch Lost in Translation and Groundhogs day.

Also, when you have some free time watch LA Confidential, Master and Commander, The Insider, A Beautiful Mind. If anything Gladiator was his most overrated role, and Nailbiter check that movie out. It is a great character study driven by Crowe's outstanding performance.

Yeah Intruder all I see is a parody, and the least deserving of anything he has ever done. This speech is incredible, subtle, yet you can feel the emotion boiling underneath.

Denzil is easily the finest actor of our generation. He's a walking masterclass for the core emotions an actor needs to convey with overplaying it. Watch him in He Got Game... gets me every time in that last scene.

Bill has all his mental faculties about him. He is just a little eccentric and his own person. He likes being that way. Not sure how they couldn't reach him. All they ave to do is attend one of the many celebrity golf tournaments that he plays in.

I am not a big Crowe fan. He's okay, but another one of those actors that just bugs me. The more I think about it, I do have quite a list of those. Decent actors, but just irritate me for some reason. :-P

Denzel is outstanding in Hurricane. Denzel is Denzel though. He's good even in sucky movies.

@batlizard

"Never go full retard."

I think in his statement about 'situations being placed over his head" refers to Marvel Studio policy of contracting actors to numerous possible films instead of one single role in one single film. Jeebus, didn't Chris Evans have to sign on to a possible 7 movies?!! Murray don't play that way.

Man, I love Groundhogs Day... But Oscar worthy???

@Nailbiter

On this planet. I'm re watching it again, and it is an okay crime drama but there are many other movies that are much better in the genre. Hell even Michael Mann did it better with Heat and Collateral. It's nowhere near the worst movie on the planet but it's quite mediocre when you start comparing it to its contemporaries. I'm re watching it again tonight, but I'm sorry Denzel has been better, and basically played a caricature of a crooked cop.

I don't know why people are ripping Bill for not wanting to do a movie role. He has worked really hard to put himself in the position that he is in now. He loves doing indie movies and doesn't want to be involved in big budget pieces where his skills won't be utilized to their full potential.

i'd take Training Day over Heat and Collateral.

Id take Training Day over Collateral but Heat over both.

Bad decision IMO! Bill Murray is a comeidan, always, so his role would have been to be funny. That is RDJ/Tony Stark's role in the film, to have more than one funny guy would probably throw off the movie chemistry