Sunday, 3 April 2016

Marvel superheroes take over Hollywood (Phil Hoad, Al Jazeera)

On April 14, 2008, Hollywood's gravitational pull got turned up a notch. That day, audiences for Iron Man were getting their first taste of the Marvel post-credits scene: "You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet." Samuel L Jackson was nominally addressing Robert Downey Jr's billionaire playboy character Tony Stark, but really he was talking to us.

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