a Starbucks near Abbey Road, Pearce quickly spotted Feige in his baseball cap, but when he greeted the studio president, he discovered that the document Feige had loaded onto his iPad was Pearce’s Iron Man manifesto. “And my first instinct is to panic,” Pearce said, “because I suddenly realized that I don’t remember a single word of it because I wrote it in total sleep deprivation, at a point of absolute madness.”

