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Don Cheadle was offered a spot in the Marvel Cinematic Universe while at his child’s birthday party. In a new interview with GQ, the 58-year-old shed light on joining the MCU in 2010’s Iron Man 2, which saw him step in for Terrence Howard as James “Rhodey” Rhodes aka War Machine. “I was at my kid’s laser tag birthday party, and […]
Iron Man is among the 25 latest movies selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. As pointed out by IndieWire, it’s the first Marvel Cinematic Universe entry to receive such an honor. “Iron Man was the very first film Marvel Studios independently produced. It was the first film that we had all of the creative control and oversight on […]
First, the bad news: Marvel has reportedly pulled the plug on its much-anticipated Armor Wars series. The good news? It’s being reworked into a feature film. The project was originally planned as a Disney+ original starring Don Cheadle as Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes, a.k.a. War Machine. The actor and Marvel chief creative officer Kevin Feige teased the show during this month’s D23 Expo, where they revealed […]
Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched in 2008 with the release of Iron Man, the movie rights for the character were turned down by New Line Cinema, which had acquired the rights from Fox in 2000. According to a Hollywood Reporter source, New Line opted not to pursue Tony Stark’s story because Bob Shaye, who ran the studio at the time, argued […]
The Russo Brothers have revealed that Iron Man director Jon Favreau personally called them in an attempt to stop them from killing off Tony Stark in Endgame. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the director duo said that Favreau, who launched the MCU with Iron Man and later directed its sequel, really didn’t want Robert Downey Jr.’s character to die in […]
A new Vulture report has shed more light on the behind-the-scene chaos of Iron Man 2. According to MCU insiders, Mickey Rourke laid out several strict demands before accepting the role as villain Ivan Vanko/Whiplash, despite his unfamiliarity with the character or the Iron Man comic. “What’s Iron Man 2? What’s Iron Man?!” he reportedly asked when he received a […]
Scarlett Johansson will bid farewell (maybe) to her Marvel character Natasha Romanoff next month with the long overdue standalone film, Black Widow. Since Romanoff made her debut in 2010’s Iron Man 2, the character has undergone considerable growth that culminated in her sacrifice in Avengers: Endgame in an effort to obtain the Soul Stone. Similarly, Johansson has pushed the studio […]
Some Iron Man fans are pleading with Marvel to bring Tony Stark back to life. As pointed out by Variety, a new billboard in Los Angeles is calling on the studio to revive the character of Iron Man, who died saving the universe in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. Robert Downey Jr. portrayed the superhero for over a decade, appearing in stand-alone […]
Robert Downey Jr. made a well-deserved comeback to Hollywood by the time Iron Man launched the MCU, but there was certainly some growing pains. In a clip from his interview on My Next Guests Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, the former MCU star spoke about what it was like working on the 2008 film, which was released […]
With a robust catalog dating back to 1928, Disney’s move to create a streaming platform was a no-brainer. The much anticipated Disney+ is finally here— and with over 7,000 titles, there’s an endless amount of content to binge-watch. From classic fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, to original Disney […]
