Tom Cruise and the “no” to Marvel to play Iron Man

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the most important movie franchise ever seen in films. There are 32 movies, 33 with ‘The Marvels’, which opens on 10 November, that make up the universe of ‘The Home of Concepts’ headed by Kevin Feige. A world initiated in 2008 by Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. with ‘Iron Man’.

When speaking in regards to the American actor, Tony Stark involves thoughts. Downey Jr. has been the primary face of the MCU for the final 15 years and his departure in ‘Avengers: Endgame’, following Stark’s demise, has left a void that’s unattainable to fill.

However within the seek for an actor to convey the eccentric billionaire to life, there was a favorite amongst Marvel’s prime brass and it wasn’t Robert Downey Jr.

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The title was Tom Cruise, however it was by no means revealed why he did not settle for the function, till now. The e book ‘MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios’, written by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales and Gavin Edwards, has revealed the the reason why the star of the ‘Mission Unimaginable’ movies, refused to play Tony Stark.

“Ten years earlier, when the Iron Man rights had been at twentieth Century Fox, Tom Cruise, then thirty-four, had flirted with the concept of taking part in Stark,” say Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales and Gavin Edwards within the e book.

“In keeping with Feige, nonetheless, Cruise‘s asking charge on the time was greater than even a worthwhile studio like Fox was prepared to danger on an untested superhero property.”

Cruise‘s rejection gave Robert Downey Jr. the possibility to be Iron Man and turn out to be the worldwide phenomenon he’s at present.

We’ll by no means know what would have occurred if Tom Cruise had accepted the function, however with Marvel you by no means know, and there’s a risk that the actor might play an alternate model of the tech mogul in a future film.

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