Although Kevin Feige and Robert Downey Jr. received the lion's share of the credit for engineering the Marvel cinematic universe, many fans forget how instrumental Jon Favreau was to the creation of the most profitable movie studio in history. Favreau, who directed the first two Iron Man films, helped create a grounded superhero universe that cleverly retained what worked about the comics- while jettisoning the inessential- through his contribution to the fledgling MCU. — Read the rest
