But when director Jon Favreau took on Iron Man, one of the original Marvel comics, he wanted to ensure the end result wasn’t your average superhero movie.
Key to that plan was casting former drug addict, felon and Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr.
“Once I was able to cast Robert in it I said there’s the opportunity to make what happens between the action set pieces equally, if not more, interesting than the action,” Favreau says.
“It was an opportunity to overcome my greatest misgiving about the potential outcome of this film, which would be that it was a mediocre, big budget action movie that would make money and disappoint fans of my work.
“Robert offered the opportunity to play the type of humour that I like, the improvisation sort of feel to the material, and of course he helped attract the wonderful cast.”
That cast includes Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow, and Oscar nominees Jeff Bridges and Terrence Howard.
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