Two of the top big wigs at Marvel participated in the Wedbush Morgan Securities 6th Annual Management Access Conference on May 22nd in New York City. They spoke about a number of things, including Iron Man 2. Thankfully, IESB transcribed what was said, and you can read it below!

…Iron Man shows that we can take our lesser known characters, reach into the storyline of our comic books and make them into valuable, really, “brands” for us. Each of these characters becomes a brand that we can market. We can do them in movies, we can do them in merchandising, we can do them in animation, we can exploit them in licensing …

…I think it leaked that Tony Stark will make an appearance in our Hulk movie that’s coming…

…Marvel has created the “May 1st” release date, last year with Spider-man 3 and now with Iron Man….the motion picture industry really didn’t believe that would be a viable date for our types of films….so we’re very pleased with that as well.

…We could have, theoretically, Iron Man 2 in late 2009 but we want Iron Man 2 to be the highest quality film that we possibly can make so we’ve moved back 4 or 5 months to that May 1st timeframe in 2010 and we think that will have little impact overall on Marvel’s financials by doing that…