Iron Manimmense superhero of cinema
For the whole world, and first for a long time to come, the superhero with global popularity Iron Manalias the billionaire Tony Stark, has the features of Robert Downey Junior.. A perfect embodiment, which the American actor provided eleven times between 2008 and 2009, in films Iron Manmovie Avengersand appearing in several other MCU superhero films. If Iron Man’s first appearance at the cinema dates back to 2008, the interest of Hollywood studios in the character created by Stan Lee in 1963 dates back well before the start of the film directed by Jon Favreau.
Indeed, starting from the mid-90s, Hollywood tried to develop a project centered on Tony Stark/Iron Man. More precisely, these are 20th Century Fox studios interested. And to play him, they have their sights set on a ’90s male superstar, who is herself interested in taking on the role: Tom Cruise. In retrospect, this seems like a no-brainer. At the time, Tom Cruise was an actor famous for his performances in Top Gun, Rain Man, Born on July 4th, Days of thunder OR The company. In 1996, his incarnation of Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible by Brian De Palma is a new high. And it reveals his many talents, including action cinema.
Happy with the experience and the success of the film, he therefore wishes to insist on this line. Then it shows itself interested in the Iron Man incarnationin a film that would be developed by 20th Century Fox. But the actor and the studios will not agree…
Tom Cruise was too expensive
Interests converge between the studios and Tom Cruise, but there is a trap. In fact, as Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales and Gavin Edwards reveal in their book “MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios”, published in mid-October 2023, this is how on a financial level that it gets blocked. Reporting the comments of Kevin Feige, at the time a young producer hired by 20th Century Fox to work on Marvel Comics adaptations, they write:
Ten years earlier (the release of “Iron Man” in 2008, ed.), when 20th Century Fox had the rights to Iron Man, Tom Cruise, then 34 years old, toyed with the idea of playing Tony Stark. However, according to Kevin Feige, Tom Cruise’s requested fee was higher than even a profitable studio like Fox was willing to risk for a superhero who had not been “tested.”
In the 1990s a Hollywood star actor’s compensation could regularly be negotiated between 10 and 20 million dollars. For example, Jim Carrey received this amount for Trippedand Bruce Willis $14 million For Sixth Sense…We can therefore imagine that Tom Cruise’s salary demands for becoming Iron Man must have been in these waters, to which 20th Century Fox then responded NO.
And to get an idea of the prudence with which the studios finance a “first time”, let’s remember that for the film Iron Man in 2008, Robert Downey Jr was paid 500,000 dollars… The success of these films and more generally of the MCU, however, allowed the actor’s salary to multiply in the following years, making him one of the highest paid actors in the world. of the cinema.
Source: Cine Serie
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