Marvelin sarjakuvafilmatisointien voittokulku lasketaan yleensä alkaneeksi vuoden 2008 elokuvasta Iron Man, jonka pääosassa nähtiin Tony Starkina Robert Downey Jr. Lopulta saaga päättyi ainakin jollain tavalla 23 elokuvaa myöhemmin rainassa Avengers: Endgame.
Kun Iron Mania oltiin puuhaamassa, ei monikaan uskonut, että elokuvasta jotain isompaa tulisi. Dialogiakin suurimmaksi osaksi improvisoitiin kuvauksissa. Kyseessä oli eräänlainen kokeilu, johon monikaan ei uskonut. Tämä vapautti tekijät luoviksi itseään toteuttamaan.
"Well, I mean, first of all, because not too many people were thinking that Iron Man was even going to have an opening weekend or do much of anything, so we were a little bit left alone. I find out more every day about how that thing was financed, it was basically ready to be written off if it tanked. And so anyway, it was the perfect thing where there were not a lot of creatively aggressive eyes on us. And by the time they gave it to us, it was like united artists, like the lunatics took over the asylum. And I remember Jeff Bridges, too, he was like, 'Man, we're doing a $200 million independent movie, man.' And there was just that sense that, of course, it was much more organized."
Kiitokset, Comic Book