Yes, Marvel studios chose Iron Man to be Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first movie. The bigger question is why it didn’t choose spider man over Iron Man to be the first movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? It is reported that a group of school children chose Iron Man to be the first movie of MCU.
Marvel Cinematic Universe has introduced many heroes and villains since they began their journey. They have even ranked them, as some characters are louder and more popular than others. In 2008, When MCU started its venture by introducing Iron Man, he was considered to be one of Marvel’s second-tier characters. But it’s still hard to name an ultimate character as all of them played a major part and made the movies successful. Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, was downgraded as pseudo-villain by the comics in aftermath of the Civil War. From this, we can interpret how old is Tony Stark in the Endgame.
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Despite all of that, MCU decided to launch Iron Man in its first movie. Fortunately, it turned out to be a rewarding decision as Iron Man made over $500 million at the box office globally. This success made Marvel Cinematic Studios appear on maps everywhere. Both Iron Man and actor Robert Downey Jr have become more like household names to us. The Iron Man franchise which was seen with so much contempt back in the years has now become the most precious asset of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The sacrifice that Tony Shark aka Iron Man-made in Avengers: Endgame, has set a mark in the history of cinema.
Was Captain America- Fictional Superhero, the First Choice Of MCU?
When film historian Ben Fritz was asked to comment on this topic, he said the original plan of Marvel Studio Universe was to start it with Captain America but then things turned in favour of Iron Man and it appeared right to them at that moment. It indeed turned out to be a rewarding decision.
Ben fritz explained it in his book “The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies”.
It says” To decide which film to make first, Marvel convened focus groups. But they weren’t convened in order to ask a random cross-section of people which story lines and characters they would most like to see onscreen. Instead, Marvel brought together groups of children, showed them pictures of superheroes, and described their abilities and weapons. Then they asked the kids which ones they would most like to play with as a toy. The overwhelming answer, to the surprise of many at Marvel, was Iron Man.
“That’s what brought Iron Man to the front of the line,” said a person who helped to decide which movie Marvel would self-produce first”.
