In addition, Columbia Records will release the album AC/DC: Iron Man 2 on Monday, April 19, 2010. Through a unique collaboration between Marvel Studios and Columbia Records, AC/DC's music will be featured in Marvel Studios' Iron Man 2, the sequel to the 2008 blockbuster film.
Between those clips and the shots already seen in the trailer, this is hardly dripping with fresh images.
Below the break you can read the whole press release and full track listing and watch the video for Shoot to Thrill, complete with clips both new and old from Iron Man 2.Ī lot of the footage is from the Stark Expo scenes and therefore focuses on dancing girls in skimpy outfits modeled on details of the Iron Man suit.
Pre-orders are open today for the album AC/DC:Iron Man 2, set to shelf on April 19th, 9 days before the movie hits. According to a new press release, it's going to feature an awful lot of AC/DC and, presumably, not much else. Getting a band as iconic as AC/DC onboard with the Iron Man movies further legitimized Tony Stark and the MCU.The soundtrack to Iron Man 2 at least seems novel. Different studios still owned Marvel's most popular characters like Spider-Man and the X-Men at the time. While the Iron Man movie franchise was already successful by the sequel's 2010 release, the MCU was still young, and the likelihood of an Avengers movie was uncertain. RELATED: MCU Fans Petition Marvel to Resurrect Tony Stark With Los Angeles Billboard Thankfully, the band was on board with using their music for Iron Man 2 and even made a new Iron Man-inspired music video for "Shoot to Thrill" to coincide with the film's release. Favreau compared using "Shoot to Thrill" for Stark's grand entrance at the Stark Expo as the equivalent to making an expensive action scene. However, using songs from a band as popular as AC/DC in a movie is expensive. That's the Tony Stark version of doing things." Favreau recounted that seeing the band play their song "Shoot to Thrill" at a concert inspired Tony Stark's Iron Man 2 entrance, saying, "You know this is how he should show up, right in the middle of this and take the armor off. "He's Iron Man, he's Tony Stark, he's going to go a million miles an hour," he told the Los Angeles Times. When it was announced that the band would release a compilation album as the soundtrack to Iron Man 2, director and actor Jon Favreau explained why AC/DC and the character were a perfect match. RELATED: Iron Man: Tony Stark Had the Marvel Universe's Worst Sidekick EVER
But as a part of Iron Man's identity, AC/DC was not just important to the character but the MCU itself. Iron Man obviously wasn't the first movie to use their songs, nor was it the last to reference them. The Australian group has survived for nearly five decades as one of the world's biggest bands, releasing music as recent as 2020 with the album Power Up. Not to mention when Iron Man makes his entrance in the first Avengers movie, it's to "Shoot to Thrill." The usages of AC/DC's music in the Iron Man movies make the band inseparable from the MCU.ĪC/DC needs no introduction. The band's signature song "Back in Black" plays on the radio during the opening scene of the first Iron Man film, and the entire Iron Man 2 soundtrack consists of AC/DC songs. Although Iron Man shares the same name as the famous song by heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath, fans know that Tony Stark's favorite band is the legendary hard rock act AC/DC.