The Strange & Rushed Making of Iron Man 2

Before Iron Man 2 even started filming, Marvel was already under pressure. Terrence Howard was out, Don Cheadle was suddenly in, Emily Blunt had lost the Black Widow role, Mickey Rourke was negotiating after his comeback in The Wrestler, and Jon Favreau was trying to make a sequel while Marvel was also building toward The Avengers. In this video, we go through the strange, rushed production of Iron Man 2 — how the sequel came together, why the script kept changing during filming, how Marvel loaded the movie with future MCU setup, what happened behind the scenes with the cast, and why the finished film ended up feeling so different from the first Iron Man. Subscribe for more Marvel and film retrospectives in the lead-up to Avengers: Doomsday.