Video: Iron Man 3 premiere: Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow on the red carpet in Los Angeles I mean there's such goodwill for the whole thing. It's just trippy to me when people outstay their welcome," he said. But I do have a producing partner here that I trust very much. We produced such epics as 'Sherlock Holmes,' a 14-month-old boy. We're kind of batting 1000 right now. In the new movie, Downey's Tony Stark character is stripped of his suit's powers and his technology and must recover using his own strength and wits. It is a journey in some ways similar to Downey's own recovery from addiction and other troubles earlier in his career, according to director Shane Black. "Because they're both sort of genius entrepreneurs in a way who have a self-destructive side maybe, but in a sense that Robert has come to terms with," Black said. Robert is looking back a little bit and saying here is this tormented version of me that I may have been more familiar with a few years back, and that's Tony Stark.