Marvel Studios’ head honcho Kevin Feige and director Jon Favreau not too long ago reminisced about the inception of the studio and the long-lasting resolution to forged Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, as Iron Man marks its fifteenth anniversary.

Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, recalled laying the muse of the studio, “I remember on later movies – we’ll talk about them on the 15th anniversary of those – there were dark days. I would say to Robert, ‘We wouldn’t be in this mess if it wasn’t for you,’ meaning we wouldn’t have a studio if it wasn’t for him. Or you” he stated to Favreau.

Director of Iron Man motion pictures, Jon Favreau revealed how he knew Robert Downey was the correct match for Iron Man, “I remember sitting down with [Robert] and I was like, he just got it and he’s got that spark in him and his eye and he’s ready. Once it was him, that’s when my life got a lot easier.”

Praising Downey’s excessive requirements for the movie, Favreau says, “had a very [high] standard that he wanted to hit with, not wanting this to feel basic. He wanted it to be special”.

Releasing a number of big-budget movies yearly, Marvel comics have turn into a world phenomenon. But it wasn’t all the time this manner, as comedian e book movies weren’t as mainstream as they’re now, and definitely not the sort that might earn over a billion {dollars} on the field workplace.

However, the whole lot altered with the discharge of the primary Iron Man film in 2008.