Marvel Totally Ruined The Original MCU Villain Plan 30 Years Later

Marvel’s original Iron Man movie plans would have featured an iconic villain, whose actually introduction to the MCU was ruined 30-years-later during Phase 5. Long before Marvel Studios kicked off the MCU with 2008’s Iron Man, a number of different studios set plans in motion to develop an Iron Man project during the 1990s. Although Universal Pictures bought Iron Man’s film rights in 1990, no movie was developed and the rights were sold to 20th Century Fox in 1996. Long Hello and Short Goodbye and I, Robot writer Jeff Vintar worked with Iron Man co-creator Stan Lee to draft a script, which would have included one obscure Marvel Comics foe.