MTV recently caught up with Robert Downey Jr. (not hard, dude runs like a little bitch) to ask what he thought about the replacement of Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2.

“I think the important thing with the ‘Iron Man’ franchise is to not do too much too soon and to make sure we don’t piss off the public that put us in the position we’re in,” said Downey. “We’ve just got to keep rolling up our sleeves higher and further up the elbow. If we show up and we’re in the right head space and our heart’s in the right spot and we really think about the audience at every turn and we don’t try to stamp our hipness onto anything. It’s very interactive.”

Dude, f-ck the public.  Seriously, have you seen us?  Just lead and the retarded sheep will follow, as long as Cheaters isn’t on.

When asked if he had anything to do with the Howard/Cheadle switch, Downey immediately responded, “I had nothing to do with that decision. I love Terrence very very much. That’s all I’ll say because I haven’t talked to him yet.”  “I’ve always admired Don [Cheadle],” said Downey. “It’s one of those situations where I still don’t quite know what happened or why. Here’s what happens too: things happen and you wind up commenting on them before you’ve actually talked to the people and it’s in poor taste.”

Well of course he’s not going to say anything bad about Terrence Howard.  Can you imagine the tortured poetry that guy would write if he was sad?  He’d probably get up onstage and just stand there holding a snow globe over his head.  Someone in the back would hit a triangle, and he’d stare at the audience while a single tear rolled down his cheek.

At a recent press junket for Tropic Thunder, someone accidentally let in a guy who wasn’t a neutered sycophant… and chaos ensued!

…a large, heavily tattooed dj from a local morning show who obviously missed the memo on ‘junket etiquette’. Or any etiquette, for that matter. It was especially interesting to watch reactions as tattoo-boy asked former addict ROBERT DOWNEY JR. who he’d like to “drink a brew and smoke a blunt with”. Listen in to what happened before publicists swept in and escorted him to another area. [HollywoodOutbreak]

Other questions included, "You play a black guy in the movie, who’s a hot black chick in Hollywood right now?"  and, "Who would you rather do a love scene with, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, or Lindsay Lohan?"  You can hear most of the exchange here, but the most impressive thing about the tape is that even while all the PR douchingtons in the room are clearly freaking out, Robert Downey Jr. plays along and even seems to be having a good time.  In fact, the only people he chastises are the people who interrupt the guy.  Robert Downey Jr. is easily the coolest person in Hollywood.  All of the dude’s questions were pretty tame, so I can’t imagine how they justified kicking him out.  But in their defense, he does sound Mexican.  

With Judd Apatow producing a funny Sherlock Holmes movie with Will Ferrell and Sacha Cohen, Guy Ritchie is racing a serious take on Holmes of his own into production.  Today Variety reports that Ritchie’s version has picked up Robert Downey Jr. to star.

With Downey aboard, the film will go into production before a comedy that just coalesced at Columbia Pictures, with Sacha Baron Cohen playing Holmes, and Will Ferrell playing his crime-fighting partner Dr. Watson.
Columbia is fast tracking its project, which is being written by Etan Cohen ("Tropic Thunder") and produced by Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller.

Both these projects sound cool, and not that much alike.  But I’m glad they’re making them as fast as they can, because things are usually better when you rush the shit out of them.  Isn’t that right, ladies?  I mean, let’s hurry up and come already, we ain’t makin soufflés.