Interestingly, it seems that Downey was in talks to don a different set of armor for a more-malevolent Marvel movie role.īack in 2005, licensee studio Twentieth Century Fox, having achieved bellwether success with the X-Men movies, was set to unveil the first major movie adaptation of the Fantastic Four (sans director Roger Corman’s unreleased effort), marking a major coming out party for Marvel Comics’ First Family. Of course, the film brought a winning formula that ultimately proved epochal for not only the comic book movie genre, but the film industry as a whole. Not only was it a Hail Mary moment for the upstart Marvel Studios over its attempt to bring old Shellhead into the mainstream, but its selection of the notoriously-troubled Robert Downey Jr. As surreal as it may now seem, 2008’s Iron Man was initially dismissed as yet another visually-driven but unexceptional comic book movie for an era filled with them.
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