Downey announcement a bit of a downer

Just as quickly as he got their hopes up, Robert Downey Jr. has dashed fans’ hopes for an Iron Man 4 movie, revealing that there are currently no plans for another installment despite claiming just hours before that he has been in negotiations with Marvel. The 49-year-old got everyone excited early on Tuesday when he told Ellen DeGeneres on her chat show that the studios have drawn up plans for a fourth Iron Man film and several other Marvel superhero flicks for the near future. He told the host: "I know there’s going to be a bunch more Marvel movies, and they have big ideas of how to do it best, and we’re in the middle of negotiations,” before confirming: “Ok, yes. Yes.” Hmm… It seems either Robert got his wires crossed or he received a furious phone call from Marvel after the interview as just hours later during his appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman, Rob did a complete u-turn on his previous comments, telling Dave that there will definitely not be another Iron Man film at all. "There's no plans for an Iron Man 4. It's a valid question why not. Like, it hasn't made enough money or something? Yeah, I guess they have too much money, or something,” he told Letterman. But it's not as big a shock as a 60-year-old man coming round from an operation to find that he had been circumcised without prior permission. That happened to a Scottish man named David Duffy, who has been given £2,000 in compensation from Glasgow Royal Infirmary following the incident, as well as a pretty red-faced apology from the hospital. He reportedly woke up to find 11 stitches where he once had foreskin and, understandably, wasn’t best pleased. He had actually been scheduled to have his penis straightened - and that procedure was, incidentally, successful. It was just the unwanted freebie that was the problem. Much as we’d love to rise above the cheap pun, what a cock-up.