Feige on a Shelling Development

Producer Kevin Feige talks to Comics Continuum on the Iron Man’s production from the Tom Cruise rumor to casting Robert Downey Jr.

“These movies have a time and have a place, and nobody knows when they are. It’s all about when they come
together,” said Kevin Feige, Marvel’s president of production. “There were a
number of scripts that were developed. It was set up other studios in the past,
and for whatever reason — the scripts never quite worked or whoever was running
the studio at the time didn’t quite see it or didn’t quite get it or the right filmmakers weren’t popping up or were interested.

“We were very lucky that we, as Marvel, got the rights back. And we sat
down and it was a clean slate. We didn’t look at or use any of the drafts that
had come before. We said, listen, it’s us now. We have no excuses. We’re going
to have to be the ones to answer the tough questions. Let’s look back at the
comics, let’s look at the origin, and how can we bring that to life.

I fell that Marvel has learned enough from Hollywood, meaning what to do and what not to, it’s time for them to take charge and gives us full packaged comic book films.