Steve Jobs informed Disney CEO Bob Iger he thought Iron Man 2 “sucked”

It’s a basic fact that half two of any Marvel Cinematic Universe collection is a downgrade from the primary. Thor: The Darkish Wold didn’t maintain a hammer to Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 couldn’t fairly soar as excessive as Vol. 1, and even Age of Ultron wasn’t as mighty as the primary Avengers. (The Captain America franchise has notably defied that sample.) However when Steve Jobs noticed the relative slog-fest that was Iron Man 2, he thought it was such a letdown that he needed to name Disney CEO Bob Iger and inform him about it.

As ScreenRant notes, Iger talked about Jobs’ overview in his new memoir, The Experience of a Lifetime: Classes Discovered from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Firm. “When Iron Man 2 got here out, Steve [Jobs] took his son to see it and referred to as me the subsequent day,” wrote Iger. “‘I took Reed to see Iron Man 2 final evening,’ he mentioned. ‘It sucked.’”

This wasn’t just a few random businessman-to-businessman overview, although. The movie’s 2010 launch got here only a yr after Disney acquired Marvel and, in flip, Marvel Studios. On the time, Jobs was on the Disney board and was the corporate’s largest shareholder. He wasn’t terribly assured in regards to the choice to purchase Marvel, and certain used his emotions on Iron Man 2 (which was produced previous to the deal and distributed by Paramount Footage) to spotlight that reality.

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Talking with Vainness Truthful about his new e book, Iger recalled Jobs’ response to the thought of buying Marvel:

“In 2009, after our very profitable acquisition of Pixar, we have been all in favour of buying Marvel, so I met with Steve and walked him via the enterprise. He claimed to have by no means learn a comic book e book in his life (‘I hate them greater than I hate video video games,’ he informed me), so I introduced an encyclopedia of Marvel characters with me to elucidate the universe to him and present him what we’d be shopping for. He spent about 10 seconds it, then pushed it apart and mentioned, ‘Is that this one necessary to you? Do you actually need it? Is it one other Pixar?’”

In fact, a decade and billions of later, it’s clear Iger made the suitable name.