SMALLVILLE Creators Spent a Year on a Pre-MCU IRON MAN Script with Tom Cruise as Tony Stark — GeekTyrant

Was Another Star Almost Tony Stark? Writers Spill on the Lost 'Iron Man' Script

Picture a Marvel universe where the man in the suit was a Top Gun, not a reformed playboy genius. Imagine arc reactors traded for jet engines, and Stark Tower echoing with the swagger of a Maverick himself. Before the red and gold became forever tied to Robert Downey Jr..link { text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-decoration-color: #db0000; text-underline-position: under; }, there was a blink and yo…

SMALLVILLE Creators Spent a Year on a Pre-MCU IRON MAN Script with Tom Cruise as Tony Stark — GeekTyrant

Before Iron Man kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe and made Robert Downey Jr. synonymous with Tony Stark, the creators of Wednesday were working on a very different version of the armored Avenger, one that could have starred Tom Cruise.Al Gough and Miles Millar, the duo behind Smallville and Netflix’s Wednesday, revealed that they were approached to write an Iron Man script shortly after their work on Spider-Man 2."[Marvel Studios founder]…