Sean Callagy

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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

changing some of the personnel at Marvel.

And so I needed a new, I was elevated to chairman and I needed a president of production.

And I did a battlefield promotion of Kevin.

And when I sold the company and put him in charge to run it so I could do other things.

And he's done a great job over the past decade plus.

But he and I would look at every second of the movie and how to plus it was our term.

There's got to be a way to plus it.

We never would pat ourselves on the back a lot.

We'd be like, what can we do?

And just had a blast with, you know, there's a cave sequence in Iron Man, if you watch it again, where he's in that cave with one other guy, and that's where he builds the first suit.

That scene is almost 20 minutes long in the movie.

And.

You know, we looked at a one minute version, a five minute version, a ten minute version, a 15 minute, 20 minute like we tried all these things out to see what was better and we wanted to make it less so the movie wouldn't be so long.

But that.

You know that felt like the best way to do it When the reveal the Iron Man suit was a big decision And we had a lot of disagreements with people people said you need to show it in the first half hour You know people don't want to wait an hour to see it but we don't reveal it till pretty much the Into act two and that was a risk but

We felt at the time that, and I strongly felt this, that the first act of Iron Man is the only place where you see Robert Downey, you see Tony Stark before he's Iron Man in all his proud and unproud things.

And that's the chance for people to connect with Tony Stark.

And if we don't have that connection, we don't have the foundation for the rest of the years and years of the MCU.

And that people wouldn't leave the theater.

And one of the nice things about theaters is very rarely do people get up and leave.

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