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All Ike Perlmutter and Alan Fine cared about was selling toys. There was supposed to be a Runaways movie until Perlmutter killed it because the cast was too diverse. According to him, girls and black people don't buy toys.

Alan Fine said the 2nd Avengers movie would have made an additional billion if he had been allowed to keep control as part of Marvel's Creative Committee. He sounds like a jackass.

Karen Gillan had to shave her head to play Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy. She had her hair turned into a wig and used it as her real hair on the short lived TV show Selfie.

When Joss Whedon added the post credit sequence to Avengers, no one at Marvel had any idea Thanos would became the big bad of the movies. He just thought it would be a neat Easter Egg for comic book fans.

Emily Blunt was supposed to be Black Widow but couldn't do it because she was already committed to the terrible Gulliver's Travels.

Mickey Rourke is a crazy person and the crew was told to leave him alone during Iron Man 2. There's some good stories here.

The real reason Terrence Howard was canned from Iron Man 2 was because he made 7 times more than Robert Downey Jr. for the first Iron Man.

I'm shocked Iron Man was filmed without a screenplay in place, only an outline. The crew would sit around for 4 or 5 hours each day while Jon Favreau and the screenwriters would write up the day's pages. How did this movie ever turn out to be good?

Also the end where Iron Monger freezes while going up too high was written right before midnight the night of the last Writers strike in 2007.