Inspired by the following tweets:
The entire Marvel Cinematic Universe was built on Favreau convincing a bunch of executives that a middle-aged actor not long out of rehab and prison, who had described himself as "box office poison" even during his earlier 1990s heyday, would be the perfect Iron Man. https://t.co/C6tbVcTE8M
— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) January 8, 2020
The MCU is built around a recovering drug addict who had never had a real hit, an unknown Australian, and a guy who made his bones playing smarmy assholes portraying the most earnest man in comics.
— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) January 8, 2020
Also known on TVTropes as It Will Never Catch On, let’s talk about our favourite (or maybe even not-so-favourite!) media that have worked against odds, conventional wisdom or pretty much looking terrible on paper.