KEVIN FEIGE HAD AN IDEA FOR ONE LAST SCENE IN Iron Man. He was inspired by an unexpected source: the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, starring Matthew Broderick. As an obsessive teenage film fan, Feige had always stayed until the very end of the credits, reading all the names of the people who had made the movie he had just seen. But at the end of Ferris Bueller, he got a surprise: Broderick came back to tell viewers that the movie was over and that they should go home. “It was the greatest thing in the world,” Feige said. “I thought it was hilarious. It was like a little
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