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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
Editing by Dan Lebental
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) May 2, 2008
Running time 126 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $135 million
Money made Domestic:
$315 million
Worldwide:
$566.7 million

Iron Man is an American comedy shi-fi 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 was positively welcomed from both audience and film critics. It was the number one movie in the United States in its opening weekend.

Release Dates

Country Premiere
 Argentina 30 April 2008
 Belgium 30 April 2008
 Brazil 30 April 2008
 Switzerland 30 April 2008 (French speaking region)
 Switzerland 30 April 2008 (German speaking region)
 China 30 April 2008
 Colombia 30 April 2008
 Denmark 30 April 2008
 Ecuador 30 April 2008
 Spain 30 April 2008
 France 30 April 2008
 Hong Kong 30 April 2008
 Hungary 30 April 2008
 Indonesia 30 April 2008
 Iceland 30 April 2008
 South Korea 30 April 2008
 Kazakhstan 30 April 2008
 Morocco 30 April 2008
Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico 30 April 2008
 Malaysia 30 April 2008
 Norway 30 April 2008
 Panama 30 April 2008
 Peru 30 April 2008
 Philippines 30 April 2008
 Poland 30 April 2008
 Singapore 30 April 2008
 Slovenia 30 April 2008
 Thailand 30 April 2008
 Taiwan 30 April 2008
 Ukraine 30 April 2008
 Uruguay 30 April 2008
 Venezuela 30 April 2008
 United Arab Emirates 1 May 2008
 Austria 1 May 2008
 Australia 1 May 2008
 Czech Republic 1 May 2008
 Germany 1 May 2008
 Estonia 1 May 2008
 Finland 1 May 2008
 Greece 1 May 2008
 Croatia 1 May 2008
 Israel 1 May 2008
 Italy 1 May 2008
 Kuwait 1 May 2008
 Lebanon 1 May 2008
 Lithuania 1 May 2008
 Latvia 1 May 2008
 Netherlands 1 May 2008
 New Zealand 1 May 2008
 Portugal 1 May 2008
 Russia 1 May 2008
 Sweden 1 May 2008
 Slovakia 1 May 2008
 South Africa 1 May 2008
 Canada 2 May 2008
 United Kingdom 2 May 2008
 Ireland 2 May 2008
 Pakistan 2 May 2008
 Romania 2 May 2008
 Turkey 2 May 2008
 United States 2 May 2008
 Egypt 7 May 2008
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 8 May 2008
 Nigeria 9 May 2008
 Vietnam 16 May 2008
 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. 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.

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