Some interesting facts about marvel
Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of superhero films produced by Marvel Studios. These films are based on characters from Marvel comic books. MCU produces television series, animated series, movies, and short films. Marvel has one of the biggest fandoms in the world and has many record-breaking movies.
1. The first MCU movie – Marvel cinematic Universe was started in 2008 with the release of Iron Man. It was rated 7.9 by IMDB and collected more than 300 million dollars at the box office.
2. Iron Man was a challenge given to Stan Lee – Stan Lee AKA the godfather of marvel was given the challenge to make a superhero that will be different from the normal superheroes, and that’s when Stan Lee came up with the idea of Iron Man who can transform himself into machines.
3. Thor: Ragnarok in Japan – In Japan people were not familiar with the concept of Ragnarok, so Marvel decided to rename the movie Mighty Thor: Battle Royale in Japan .
4. Stan Lee wanted to play the role of Odin- In an interview, Stan Lee was asked about his favorite character to which he replied Odin and told the interviewer about his wish to play Odin one of the strongest characters in MCU.
5. 4 Black Widows – Scarlett Johansson(Black Widow) was pregnant during the shoot of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Marvel didn’t want to cut the action scenes of Black Widow so they hired some stunt actors instead to perform the major stunts while Scarlett did the verbal scenes in the movie.
6. Why Spider-Man has a hyphen in it? – While designing Spider-Man Stan Lee didn’t want to have a character that people would call a copy of Superman as Superman was introduced before by DC, so Stan Lee decided to have a hyphen in Spider-Man.
7. Peggy’s unscripted scene in ‘The First avenger’- When Steve Rogers Steps out of the chamber becoming a muscular man Peggy just could not control herself from touching shirtless Steve. This was non-scripted but the director’s liked the scene so much that they decided to have it in the movie.
8. Venom was created by a fan- During the contest hosted by marvel in 1982, a guy named Randy Schueller submitted a drawing similar to spider-man with the black suit. Marvel liked the concept so much that they finally decided to buy it for around $ 250.
9. Unscripted line in Thor: Ragnarok- During the fight scene between Thor and Hulk, Thor says, ”he is a friend from work.” This line was suggested to Chris Hemsworth by a fan who came to meet him during the break.
10. Robert Downey Jr. was nearly rejected for Iron Man- Marvel producers didn’t like his alcoholic habits of Robert Downey Jr. and thought it would not be suitable for him to play the role of Ironman, but Jon Favreau insisted that Robert should play this role, and later it turned out pretty well.
11. Longest Avenger movie – With the running time of 182 minutes Avengers Endgame is the longest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and no doubt it’s the highest-grossing film too.
12. Voice for Groot- Vin Diesel the voice artist of Groot recorded all his lines of him in several different languages including German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and more so that fans could enjoy movies with his original voice worldwide.
13. Tom Holland was not given the script of Avengers Infinity War due to his habit of revealing too many secrets to fans before release.
References - 30 Marvelous Facts About Your Favorite Marvel Movies - ReelRundown
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