Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is the first installment, of the first phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that concluded with The Avengers released on 2012. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer who builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero Iron Man. Gwyneth Paltrow plays his personal assistant Pepper Potts, Terrence Howard plays military liaison James Rhodes, and Jeff Bridges plays Stark Industries executive Obadiah Stane.
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