<P> Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name , produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures . It is the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) . The film was directed by Jon Favreau , with a screenplay by the writing teams of Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum and Matt Holloway . It stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man , alongside Terrence Howard , Jeff Bridges , Shaun Toub , and Gwyneth Paltrow . In Iron Man , Tony Stark , an industrialist and master engineer , builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero Iron Man . </P>
<P> Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name , produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures . It is the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) . The film was directed by Jon Favreau , with a screenplay by the writing teams of Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum and Matt Holloway . It stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man , alongside Terrence Howard , Jeff Bridges , Shaun Toub , and Gwyneth Paltrow . In Iron Man , Tony Stark , an industrialist and master engineer , builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero Iron Man . </P>
when did the first iron man movie come out
when did the first iron man movie come out
2008
2008