ELON MUSK: “They modeled Iron Man in the movies after me." (x.com)

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ELON MUSK: “They modeled Iron Man in the movies after me. Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau met with me and toured SpaceX.”

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[-] jack@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

The first movie was filmed in 2007. Did anybody even know who he was then?

He did get a pathetic suck-off cameo in the third movie.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

I found this article through Wikipedia that says they did tour SpaceX while filming the first movie: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-elon-musk-spacex/ (warning: it's from 2015, so it still has Musk so-true shit)

I vaguely remember hearing about him in 2008 when the first Tesla Roadster was released. His cameo was in the second Iron Man, unless he was in the third one and I forgor.

[-] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

They used Space X as the filming location for Hammer Industries in Iron Man 2. Which is it's own nugget because Musk is more of a Justin Hammer than Stark, depending on how much credit you want to give Stark as a character.

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

In 2007 social media almost did not exist, Elon Musk most likely relied on PR companies until he started his complete loss of self control.

[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Tesla was coming out with a cool electric car using a Lotus chassis back then (the original Tesla roadster) and the original SpaceX Falcon rocket was the first privately owned rocket to reach orbit, this was around 2008 I think so Musk was definitely making waves back then in nerdier circles.

[-] GenXen@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The book "Founders at Work" features an interview with Max Levchin in which he describes how Musk wanted to switch the PayPal infrastructure from Unix to Windows NT was published in 2008, and they didn't even feel it necessary to include his name, he's only alluded to as "the guy who ran X [who] became CEO".