Sean Callagy

And that's what inspired me.

And how can I do it in a way that wasn't just three movies at the time, but that could be many, many movies?

And I would just soak all that information up.

Little things like, I was able to do a Broadway show before I did Marvel, and I had a lot of success.

I won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1999 for my first Broadway show.

And what is a Harvard MBA winning Tony Awards, creating the Marvel Cinematic Universe, right?

And then taking a video game that was incredibly popular, then failed, and turning it into an incredibly commercially successful movie, Angry Birds, and there's like dot, dot, dot, and much more, but please.

Yeah, and one of the things I learned from Broadway, Broadway is a great medium because you take it on the road outside of New York.

We went to Boston, we went to Chicago, we went to LA, and you're changing the show every night and you're seeing audience reaction right away, right?

And the reviewers have a pact, which I guess isn't legally binding, that they won't review the movie until you say it's opening night in New York.

So you even have another month or two in New York to fine tune the show before the powerful reviewers come in.

And I realized halfway through this road trip with the show that the beginning had to be amazing.

and the end had to be incredible.

So everything in between has to be good, but what people, if they don't feel into it, if you don't open their minds to their experience in the beginning, and if you don't close with something that causes them to literally flee with excitement as they're leaving the theater,

You're missing a huge opportunity.

So when I went into Iron Man, I really worked on the first scene and the last scene.

And, you know, we have the first scene, he gets blown up.

So there's a dramatic thing that happens.

How do you know that?

I mean, I couldn't agree more.