Cillian Murphy is one of the actors of the moment thanks to his performances on Peaky Blinders and Oppenheimer, and Marvel Studios fans would love to see him joining the MCU to play one of the most popular villains from the comics. And he may be up to it.

The Fantastic Four are joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe very soon, after Disney finally got the X-Men and the first family of superheroes back by buying Fox, and that means that Dr. Victor Von Doom could also soon appear in some Marvel Studios project, something fans have been asking for since forever because he’s one of the most famous villains in the comics.

Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy has been a fan favorite choice for the role for a long time, and now the actor has an answer for the ones asking him to play Doctor Doom. While speaking with Josh Hororwitz on his Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, Murphy said:

“If someone sends a script. It’s always about the script.”

The actor shared a similar response when asked about the chances of joining Ryan Gosling as a Ken in a potential Barbie sequel. For the Irish star the story is the most important thing, but he has already been part of some mainstream productions and has already played a villain within the superhero genre in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy, so there’s no doubt he would consider playing Doctor Doom if the script’s good.

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Who’s Dr. Victor Von Doom?
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He was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for The Fantastic Four #5 in 1962, as the monarch of the fictitious country of Latveria. When originally conceived, Doctor Doom was thought as the idea of Death, wearing an iron mask as a reference to The Man in the Iron Mask. Victor is a man looking for vengeance against the world, because under his mask he’s imperfect, something he can’t tolerate.

Through the years and his many appearances in different stories, Doctor Doom has faced different heroes within the Marvel Comics gallery, although still remaining as the main enemy for The Fantastic Four. Sometimes he has even been presented as an anti-hero, helping some characters to defeat evil instead of being the guy to defeat.

After a complicated childhood and losing both of his parents, Victor developed great abilities as a sorcerer and a technopath, and once he gets to the United States to study, he meets Reed Richards and automatically dislikes him. While trying to build a machine to communicate with the death, Victor ends up hurting his face and that’s how he gets his scar and gets expelled.

He wanders around the world until a group of Tibetan monks rescue him. He spends some time there, learning from them while building his future armor with an iron mask, which he ends up attaching to his body since he put it on before it was cold, finally becoming Doctor Doom.

With his new identity, he returns in order to get even from the ones he thinks are responsible for what happened to him, this including Reed Richards and The Fantastic Four.