Iron Man was the film that started the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), although it wasn’t the start of the timeline of events. While today is dear to the hearts of fans and the team that worked on it, production didn’t go as smoothly as we’d envisioned, according to a new interview with Jeff Bridgesa Wonder even discarded the script for the feature film on the first day of shooting.
“It was Marvel’s first attempt at making movies,” Bridges told Vanity Fair. “It was very lucky to have it Jon Favreau there and [Robert] downey jrbecause they’re both great improvisers and we spent a couple of weeks working on the script and rehearsing together because we didn’t like the original script and I was like, oh yeah, we fixed that, we fixed that. “
He continues, “Then the first day of shooting came and Marvel kind of threw away our script that we were working on and said, ‘No, that’s not good. It has to be this and that.’ And then there was a lot of confusion about it. What our script was, what we wanted to say. We spent hours in one of our trailers, going through the lines and exploring how we were going to do it.
According to the Iron Monger villain’s interpreter, Favreau reached out to fellow writers for advice on how to proceed with the script.
“It absolutely drove me crazy,” he recalls. “Until I made a little change in my brain that was, ‘Jeff, just relax. You do a $200 million student film artist and you just improvise and that’s what we ended up doing.”
Iron Man is available on Disney+.
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