90 – Weight in pounds of the Mark 1 suit. Favreau and Downey capitalized on the freedom to come up with a good deal of the dialogue and try out different versions of the scenes over different takes to see what works. The story beats were set, but the script that connected them was not. 2 – Cameras used for some dialogue scenes to capture improvised lines in the moment.… So we put goggles on all the bad guys, and wrapped them with scarves and just let it play out." They almost stopped production, but Favreau decided to press on because "cinematically it had such a great visual quality that if you wrote it into a script you could never really achieve those conditions artificially. 60 – Speed of the winds in miles per hour the crew endured over two days to shoot the exterior scenes for Tony's captivity in the desert, subbing the Olancha Sand Dunes for Afghanistan.It’s only a couple of pages, so I read it and it’s all about retribution, of which there is a great deal in this story.” Marvel estimates that Iron Man appeared in over 600 stories in the greater Marvel universe to pull from for the movie.ĥ80 – Words in the Book of Obadiah, making Jeff Bridges' research into playing Obadiah Stane very easy: “Obadiah is an interesting name, so I Googled it and discovered that it is the shortest book in the Bible. 469 – Issues in the first four volumes of The Invincible Iron Man comic series, first published in 1968.Marvel Studios decided to make Iron Man their first independent feature with director Jon Favreau. After a decade-plus of false starts, the rights reverted back to Marvel in 2005. Over the years, Tom Cruise and Nicolas Cage expressed interest in playing Tony Stark, and the project passed through the hands of Quentin Tarantino, Joss Whedon, and Nick Cassavettes. Iron Man kicked around Universal for a few years before Fox bought the rights in 1996, where it lingered for a few more years before Fox sold the rights in 1999 to New Line. The resounding success of Batman in 1989 must have sent studios searching for superhero properties. 1990 – Year when Universal first bought the rights to develop a feature adaptation based on Marvel's Iron Man comics.
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