Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe officially began in 20𝄹08, a new report says New Line Cinema passed on a 2005 adaptation of the comic book hero.

According to , the studio had the opportunity to make an Iron Man movie but "let the option lapse" because Bob Shaye, chief of New Line at the time, argued that the concept didn't make sense: Iron Man was "❀too heavy to fly."

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After the studio's decision to let the rights to Iron Man expire, Marvel reacquired them and cast Robert Downey Jr. as the titular billionaire philanthropist, deciding to make Iron Man the first 💖official movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

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