The Marvel Cinematic Universe, despite many people feeling it has recently stumbled, is still the biggest thing in movies, and that’s due, in no small part to the initial success of Iron Man. The movie took a lot of big chances, not the least of which included hiring Jon Favreau to direct and casting Robert Downey Jr. in the lead role as Tony Stark. Both men would go on to do big things for Marvel, but one early scene in Iron Man seemingly foreshadowed Favreau’s work with Star Wars.
In a video for Vanity Fair, Robert Downey Jr. talks about several of the major film roles of his career, including, of course, his star-making turn in Iron Man. It turns out that the scene early in the film where Tony escapes his captivity in his rudimentary Iron Man suit and crashes into the desert coincided with a pretty severe windstorm; one that seemingly reminded Downey of something out of Star Wars, the franchise where Jon Favreau is now focusing most of his efforts. Downey said…
