So Iron Man, Captain America Thor, Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, I just love everything at

the heart of the Spidey universe.

Wonder Woman, Black Widow, in Hawkeye, Gamora, and Star Lord.

At the box office, no one wields more power than superheroes.

They gross billions of dollars, break records, and mint new movie stars.

But whether you think superheroes are the only reason to go to the movies these days,

or they're the death of cinema, you've got to know how they took over Hollywood.

And Marvel at the time was in very poor shape.

There was piles of furniture in the corner with a post-in note that's it's sold.

They were selling filing cabinets for cash.

He doesn't seem like a second-tier character anymore, but it's like, who's Iron Man?

I was petrified.

I remember thinking, oh my god, I've made a really emotional comic book movie.

I hope people are gonna go for it.

And I hope we all get to work in this town again when it's all said and done.

It's a story of audacious ideas, an incredible luck.

A story of how a very unlikely group of people turned Marvel from a bankrupt comic book publisher

to the most successful movie studio of the modern era.

We were nothing company, so the idea that we could actually make movies was an astounding

idea.

And if you thought the fights on screen were fierce, wait till you hear what went on

behind the scenes.

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