Iron Man (movie)
| Iron Man | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jon Favreau |
| Produced by | Avi Arad Kevin Feige |
| Written by | Screenplay: John August (uncredited) Mark Fergus Hawk Ostby Arthur Marcum Matthew Hollaway Comic Book: Stan Lee Larry Lieber Don Heck Jack Kirby |
| Starring | Robert Downey Jr. Gwyneth Paltrow Jeff Bridges Terrence Howard |
| Music by | Ramin Djawadi |
| Cinematography | Matthew Libatique |
| Edited by | Dan Lebental |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | May 2, 2008 |
Running time | 126 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $135 million[1] |
| Box office | Domestic: $315 million Worldwide: $566.7 million |
Iron Man is an American science fiction superhero movie based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man. It is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe group of movies. It was released in different countries on dates between April 30, 2008 and May 2, 2008. The movie is about Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.), a billionaire industrialist who is captured by terrorists in Afghanistan. The movie received very good reviews, and as of May 5 holds a 94% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was the number one movie in the United States in its opening weekend.
Release Dates
| Country | Premiere |
|---|---|
| 23x15px Argentina | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Belgium | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Brazil | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x16px Switzerland | 30 April 2008 (French speaking region) |
| 23x16px Switzerland | 30 April 2008 (German speaking region) |
| 23x15px China | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Colombia | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Denmark | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Ecuador | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Spain | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px France | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Hong Kong | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Hungary | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Indonesia | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Iceland | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px South Korea | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Kazakhstan | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Morocco | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Mexico | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Malaysia | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Norway | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Panama | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Peru | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Philippines | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Poland | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Singapore | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Slovenia | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Thailand | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Taiwan | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Ukraine | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Uruguay | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px Venezuela | 30 April 2008 |
| 23x15px United Arab Emirates | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Austria | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Australia | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Czech Republic | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Germany | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Estonia | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Finland | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Greece | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Croatia | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Israel | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Italy | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Kuwait | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Lebanon | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Lithuania | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Latvia | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Netherlands | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px New Zealand | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Portugal | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Russia | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Sweden | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Slovakia | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px South Africa | 1 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Canada | 2 May 2008 |
| 23x15px United Kingdom | 2 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Ireland | 2 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Pakistan | 2 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Romania | 2 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Turkey | 2 May 2008 |
| 23x15px United States | 2 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Egypt | 7 May 2008 |
| Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | 8 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Nigeria | 9 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Vietnam | 16 May 2008 |
| 23x15px Japan | 27 September 2008 |
Plot
Tony Stark (Downey) is the CEO of Stark Industries, a company that makes weapons and bombs. He flies to Afghanistan to show off a new weapon called the "Jericho" missile to the United States Army. He and four other soldiers drive off in a Humvee, which is then attacked. One of the attack weapons was a bomb that Stark Industries had made. The soldiers are killed. Stark is badly injured by shrapnel from the bomb and is kidnapped.
Stark wakes up in a cave to find a man named Ho Yinsen standing over him. Yinsen tells Stark that he took out as much shrapnel as he could. He also installed wires connected to a car battery to stop the rest of the shrapnel from reaching his heart and killing him. Raza, the leader of the terrorists, orders Stark and Yinsen to build a Jericho missile for him. Stark builds an arc reactor that produces clean power. He uses it to replace the car battery that he has been carrying around.
Stark and Yinsen then build an armored suit for Stark to escape in. Because Raza demands that the missile be ready the next day, Stark decides they must escape soon. But his suit is not ready yet. So Yinsen picks up an assault rifle and starts shooting to give Stark more time. When the suit is ready, Stark defeats Raza and his men. Yinsen is badly injured and dies. Stark sets fire to the whole camp and lifts off using the armored suit. He crashes and the Army finds him and his friend, James Rhodes.
When he arrives home, Stark announces that he is closing the weapons division of Stark Industries. He then spends his time downstairs building a new armored suit and a new arc reactor more powerful than the last one. Stark tells his secretary, Pepper Potts (Paltrow), to destroy the old arc reactor, but she instead puts it in a glass box. On the first test of his second armor, Stark goes up into the atmosphere and the suit freezes up. He rebuilds it to work in cold conditions and paints it red.
At a party, he learns that Obadiah Stane (Bridges), who is second-in-command at Stark Industries, and others are secretly selling weapons to Raza and his men. He tells Potts to go into Stane's office and find the shipping records so he can fly to the places and destroy the weapons. Stane finds out that Pepper Potts has the information.
So Stane builds a suit based on Stark's first suit, the Mark I, which Raza found in the desert and gave to him. He names his suit the Iron Monger. But his scientists cannot make an arc reactor to power it, so he goes to Stark's house to steal his. He paralyses Stark with a small device that Stark built, and takes the arc reactor out of his chest. Without the arc reactor, Stark cannot live long. He goes back to his workshop to find the original arc reactor. He breaks the glass box and puts the old arc reactor in his chest. Then he puts on the Mark III suit to fight Stane.
Potts and a group of government men go to Stark Industries to arrest Stane, but they find him in the Iron Monger suit. Stark and Stane fight. Stark has Potts blow up the large arc reactor at Stark Industries to kill Stane. In a few days, the photographs of the fight appear in newspapers. The press call Stark's armor Iron Man. A government agency, S.H.I.E.L.D, tells him that he should say that he was on a boat during the events, so his role as Iron Man in the fight is kept secret. But during a press conference, Stark says that he is Iron Man.
After the movie credits, a man named Nick Fury tells Stark that he is not the only superhero around and that he would like to discuss the Avengers Initiative with him.
Sequel
Because this movie did so well, Marvel made a sequel. It is called Iron Man 2 and was released in April, May and June 2010. The different release dates were for different parts of the world.[2] Iron Man also appears in other Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, like The Avengers.
A third movie, Iron Man 3 was released on May 3, 2013.
References
- ↑ Horn, John (2008-04-17). "Will Iron Man be the summer's strongman?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-06-21. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Iron Man 2". IMDB. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
Other websites
- Official Iron Man website
- Iron Man on IMDb Script error: No such module "EditAtWikidata".
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