MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

by JoAnna Robinson

the movies inadvertently implied something he called “Fury’s Big Week”: the action of The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, and Thor all overlapped during one frantic week for Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. Winderbaum also established the “zero point” for the Marvel timeline: Tony Stark’s public declaration that he was Iron Man. Just as Star Wars fans and creators mark events as being before or after the Battle of Yavin (the climax of the first Star Wars movie, when Luke Skywalker blows up the Death Star), Marvel Studios kept its calendar by the time elapsed before or after Tony’s admission.

it was no simple matter to get a film into Chinese theaters. The government exercised strict oversight on content—a movie that displeased Chinese censors would be blocked, which is why a Chinese villain is hardly ever seen in a twenty-first-century Hollywood movie—

November 2014, hackers released a vast trove of internal Sony Pictures documents, including over 200,000 email messages. (The US government concluded that the culprits were sponsored by the North Korean government, in an act of retribution for Sony releasing The Interview, a Seth Rogen comedy about a journalist who gets recruited by the CIA to kill the North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un.)

“When I saw the film, it broke my heart a little that they had CG’d over the suit,” said Gui DaSilva-Greene, the stunt double for Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther. “Because then it makes certain things that I actually did look like I didn’t do it—the chase sequence or the triple kick to Captain America’s shield, I did all that.”