ahhh
shit makes sense
b/c it seems like it was shoe horned into the MCU
STARTING WITH IRON MAN
Arad: The first we made was
Iron Man. . . . [New Line] didn’t know what to do with it. I don’t want to put anybody’s name on it, because if they missed it, they just didn’t get it, and that’s totally legitimate. And we had two movies to start with. We had that and we had
Hulk with Universal. The key issue was Hulk was known, so we thought it gives us a leg up. We had the relationship with Universal, specifically on
Hulk. All of these movies were licensed when I was 11, and I’m 70 now. All of these things were old deals, weren’t good deals.
Feige: We didn’t have Spider-Man. We didn’t have Fantastic Four. [We had] the B-list characters—that was the
L.A. Times or somebody’s headline. I never really thought that because I knew that Iron Man was really cool and Hulk was, arguably, next to Spider-Man, the biggest character we had. I thought they all had amazing potential, but the goal was deliver these two movies, and make the best
Iron Manfilm we could, and make the best version of
Hulk, even coming five years after another version of
Hulk. It wasn’t, this is the first of a 22-movie cinematic saga.
THEIR FIRST COMIC-CON, 2006
Feige: I think that panel in a large part was to say that Marvel’s making movies themselves now, and here’s the information we have at this point. My favorite part of that is when somebody asked: “Is
The Avengers ever possible?” We had no real plans at that point. It was a pipe dream. So much of what we’ve done is based on a pipe dream.
Favreau: There was the sense of having characters available to them of Hulk, Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man—it led to the notion of Avengers as a lighthouse to aim towards. But it was only in very general terms. . . . So we had gone to Comic-Con and talked about what we were planning to do, but at the very beginning we announced a villain that we didn’t end up using.
Feige: Jon announced the Mandarin as the villain in
Iron Man.
Downey Jr.: It’s easy to get ahead of yourself. I remember when they said the Mandarin was supposed to be the bad guy in the first
Iron Man movie. That’s
later.
Feige: I think if we had run before we walked, we would have done all those things we said in the panel—which we didn’t.
^^Just some excerpts from the Interview. Can read the full one here. RDJ, Favreau, Avi Arad, and a couple others throw out some info too.
Full interview can be found here:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywoo...ack-at-iron-man-the-movie-that-started-it-all
