Sean Callagy

that have to be done.

It's not as complicated as Elon's spaceships, which he famously talks of that there's like 20,000 things that have to go right on any space launch.

And if one of them doesn't, the whole thing falls apart.

And it's not as complicated as that, but to go from the IP to something that's a new worldwide mythology or something that people really love in that deep way requires a lot, a lot of decisions.

And one of them you raised earlier, like how do you take something that's got dedicated fans and make them happy, at the same time bring it to the world?

And so with Iron Man,

we made it a love story with 10 minutes of action.

And it was like an old-fashioned love story, like from the 50s, where two people love each other, but they won't admit it, you know, Robert Downey and Gwyneth Paltrow.

And you're an audience saying, kiss already, you know?

And they don't.

And adding in humor.

I made a decision that had really never been done.

In Hollywood, you freeze a script.

You freeze a script before you shoot the movie.

Because every day in a live action movie is four or $500,000.

And so if you miss the day, you have to spend another half a million.

And there's unions, there's rules.

And so you don't want you want people changing dialog because that could screw things up.

But I left an hour a day in the schedule for Robert to improvise.

And I'd say at least half of the comedy in Iron Man came out of him riffing and saying funny things.