The first Iron Man movie was a massive success, but Robert Downey Jr. explains Marvel had a plan for the film's failure.
The actor offered a few tidbits from makingin the process, indicating that it was always their intention — him and Jon Favreau — to make a great movie:
Another full-circle story. I exchanged my previous obsession with an obsession for this role and landed it — and lest we forget, it was Favreau who was pushing for me but knew he had to play the politics or he would have no leverage moving forward. Then we proceeded to launch a historic run of what is now the cinematic universe with [Jon] Favreau and I essentially doing our version of a big-budget [Robert Downey] Senior movie.
But Marvel didn’t have high hopes for the film’s financial success. “Not too many people were thinking Iron Man was going to have an opening weekend or do much of anything, so we were a little bit left alone,” the actor revealed. The movie was “ready to be written off if it tanked,” he went on, explaining that he finds out more every day about howRDJ talks about how he’s still learning things about Iron Man, how it was financed and how the studio was prepared to write it off if it failed. .
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