Your birth year
2006
Iron Man
2008
You're 2 years older than Iron Man
It's from 2008, when you were 2.
- Director
- Jon Favreau
- Genre
- Superhero
- Star
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Released
- 2008
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About
As of 2026, it's 18 years old.
Iron Man launched the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008 on a risky bet: a B-list hero, a director known for comedies, and a lead actor Hollywood considered a gamble. The result — Robert Downey Jr.'s charismatic, improvising billionaire building a flying suit — was so charming it spawned the biggest franchise in film history.
Its post-credits tease of a bigger universe to come turned 'stay until the lights come up' into a global moviegoing ritual.
Slick, funny, and franchise-founding, Iron Man is the film that took a long-shot bet on a wisecracking inventor and accidentally built a cinematic empire.
