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Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965), also known as RDJ, is an American actor. A son of a filmmaker, Robert Downey Sr and one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, his films as a leading actor have grossed over $14 billion worldwide. In 2008, Downey was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and from 2013 to 2015, he was listed by Forbes as Hollywood's highest-paid actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. At the age of five, Downey made his acting debut in his father Robert Downey Sr.'s 1970 film Pound. He subsequently worked with the Brat Pack in the teen films Weird Science (1985) and Less than Zero (1987). Downey's portrayal of Charlie Chaplin in the 1992 biopic Chaplin earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Actor and his first Academy Award nomination. Following a stint at the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on drug charges, he joined the TV series Ally McBeal in 2000. He won a Golden Globe Award for the role. Downey was fired from the show in 2001 in the wake of additional drug charges. He stayed in a court-ordered drug treatment program and has maintained his sobriety since 2003. Downey made his acting comeback in the 2003 film The Singing Detective, after Mel Gibson paid his insurance bond, and went on to star in the black comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), the thriller Zodiac (2007) and the action comedy Tropic Thunder (2008). He also played Sherlock Holmes in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009), which earned him his second Golden Globe, and in its 2011 sequel. Downey gained global recognition for starring as Iron Man in ten Marvel Cinematic Universe films, from Iron Man (2008) to Avengers: Endgame (2019). Downey received acclaim for his role in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023), winning an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Lewis Strauss. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for playing multiple characters in the black comedy miniseries The Sympathizer (2024). He made his Broadway debut that year, playing the title role in Ayad Akhtar's McNeal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Downey Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Many years in the future, humans have accumulated so much garbage that they begin to jettison it into space. Over time as garbage begins to collect in orbit, another moon is formed, the Garbage Moon. Some medical/laboratory waste is thrown away, and unfortunately that contains some rats who have been exposed to some such treatment that makes them incredibly intelligent, capable of human speech, and able to exist without oxygen. The lab rats have managed to survive and create a colony on the garbage moon. NASA notices the activity on the new moon, and sends people up to investigate. Two astronauts (Aloysius and John) are tasked with the mission, and they are friendly enough as colleagues but they are very different men. Aloysius wants to continue observing the rats, but John thinks it's a waste of time and they should kill the rats; unfortunately before anything can be fully discussed, John is accidentally killed. The rats interpret this as Aloysius being their hero, and saving them. They begin a dialogue, and while Aloysius continues to study them, he tells the moon rats how their cousins on earth are treated. He's ashamed but he's honest. The moon rats realize that there is a way to give everyone what they want, and convince Aloysius to take a delegation back to earth. There is division between rats who think their moon should be for moon rats only; classic xenophobic struggle.
