They could replace RDJ with 50 Cent and we would still go see Iron Man 4.....
Marvel doesn't have to pay them shyt. The franchises will live on no matter who the actors are.
Keep thinking they can just replace RDJ.
Hell they can't even just replace Thor or Captain America at this point. Only ones "Replacable" Are Bruce Banner Black Widow and Hawkeye
People were saying this in the IM3 thread and it's such a bad argument. If you heard of Marvel Comics prior to 2000 than you probably heard of Iron Man. In terms of popularity only the X-Men, Hulk, and Spider-Man beat him out. It's like not knowing about the Flash, Aquaman, or Green Lantern. With or without RDJ there's a reason Marvel started this whole thing off with Iron Man and it ain't because he was an unknown.
Iron Man has always been one of Marvel's most popular characters and comics. Of course 'somebody' cared, if not then there would be no movies or even a thread like this to discuss it.
your probably right about thor but the other guy?
nobody knows who he is
Because there's a movie ain't proof of a character's popularity. Howard the Duck got a movie for fukk sake. The Crow did too. Blade got a movie and no one in their right mind would argue he's an A-list Marvel character.
The sole reason Iron Man got a movie is because Marvel didn't own the rights to X-Men. And the runner up is The Avengers, who has Iron Man. If Marvel had the rights to X-Men this thread wouldn't exist.
And heard of Iron Man =/= you gave a fukk about him. People act like every casual movie goer in the world is an avid comic reader.
Fred.
Iron Man was a C level character in the comics. Anyone who argues that is dumb AF.
The Avengers was the #1 movie OF ALL TIME. Keep thinking no one knows who Chris Evans is. Fans don't have to know his goverment. All they know is Captain America has a face. And if u replace that you fukkin the whole movement up!
Honestly not even Black widow and Hawkeye are replacable. But if ANYONE had to be replaced they would be the first to go as they would have the least uproar. But replacing the main stars of your flagship movies??? Yea ok.
Keep thinking they can just replace RDJ.
Hell they can't even just replace Thor or Captain America at this point. Only ones "Replacable" Are Bruce Banner Black Widow and Hawkeye
So you telling me Iron Man 4 would flop if they replaced RDJ? You kidding yourself....
Ironman is replaceable, just like Batman, Spiderman, Superman, and every other super hero that ever had a movie.
If Marvel had Spidey, X-Men, and Fantastic Four, Avengers would be background like SHIELD is in the Avengers movies.
Ask some 11 year old kid in Bumfukk, Nebraska if he cares about arc reactors or Pepper Potts or the development schedule involved with making Ironman 1. All he knows is that he's watching the new Ironman/Avengers movie with his mom/friends day 1, he's copping all that Ironman fresh merch, and he's dressing up as Tony Stark for Halloween. That doesn't happen 15-20 years ago. RDJ's a big reason for that.