Tony Stark breaks all the rules (even the one that says superheroes must keep a secret identity), and he always seems to come out on top -- that's why we love him. But now comes "Iron Man 2," a film about secret dangers, the sins of the father and the nasty price of modern celebrity. The movie lands May 7 in the U.S., and every day until then, we'll have behind-the-scenes scoops on the summer's most anticipated film and a look at all things Iron Man.
Think of Nick Fury as the spy who came in from credits.
During the making of the first "Iron Man," Samuel L. Jackson was invited to film a quick scene in the role as "a tag," the name for those short (and often funny or sequel-suggesting) snippets of film that roll after the credits. The Fury tag was especially fun because in Marvel Comics, the modern incarnation of spy-chief Fury was in fact modeled after Jackson -- which made the "Iron Man" after-credit scene one of the most memorable ever, right up there with "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Napoleon Dynamite."
The tag also turned out to be one of heck of a job audition for Jackson -- the actor did an encore tag (with "Iron Man" star Robert Downey Jr. ) for "The Incredible Hulk" and then signed a nine-movie deal with Marvel Studios to make his fictional espionage czar the unifying crossover character as Marvel moves forward with the plan to interlock all of its superhero films.
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