Sean Callagy

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4,277 appearances 12 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 10 Sep

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Unblinded with Sean Callagy · How Iron Man Saved Marvel: David Maisel Shares the Real Story with Sean Callagy · 21 May 2026 podcast

And then to make it worse, I kept 100% of the equity.

So we had 100% of the upside.

DC, which I still don't understand why, sold off half of Batman to a essentially financing entity called Legendary Studios for a cost.

And so you just do the math on those three things, we made a significant amount more money on the movie

And then we also, I did it and we did it in a way where we controlled, Marvel controlled the property.

So we could make Iron Man again quicker, we could do whatever we want.

We didn't have a director who was final cut, they say, who's got the final say on a movie.

And normally if the movie does well, a final say on how the characters are used.

So in our case, we had complete freedom to use the characters, which became the MCU.

In DC case, they got delayed many years trying to keep Chris Nolan part of the family, understandably, and that delayed when they were able to do Justice League and things like that.

it gave us more time to build our base.

So a lot of those things, I still wanted to win the box office thing, but, because then I'd go out, you know, the next week and somebody would say, they killed you at the box office, and I'd say, yeah, but, and no one really wanted to listen to all the buts at the time.

So my takeaway for everybody out there is David,

is focused not only on the magic of the storytelling and arc, like lessons for the moment, is we all talk about the power of storytelling.

So if anybody in this room is listening to this or anybody's listening to the podcast, the prism of like, okay, cool, like made movies, great storyteller.

We all need to be great storytellers.

Every ecosystem merger, every great sale is on the other side of an integrous, masterfully told story.

If that's landing, please say yes.

And all yeses are not created equally.

David is in the micro, micro distinctive detail of masterfully creating outcomes that were economically profitable, that created lever five, disposable income.

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