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Marvel’s first attempts to produce films of his characters had, in the best of cases, little success. The television films of Doctor Strange and Captain America managed to connect with the audience in greater depth than Spider-Man.96 Although Stan Lee spent much of the 80s and 90s looking for producers interested in making films with Marvel characters, the results they were equally poor, like Howard the duck in 1986, The Punisher in 1989 or Captain America in 1990.97 A film centered on The Fantastic Four was produced in 1994 but never came to market, which gives an idea of ​​its quality. However, the fate of Marvel films would change from 1997 with the premiere of Blade and, above all, X-Men in 2000, which raised $ 54 million in its first weekend.98 Other films would follow, as the first trilogy of Spider-Man started in 2002, the sequels of X-Men and the films focused on different characters of the Marvel Universe. The success of these films led to litigation between the publisher and Stan Lee, the public face of Marvel, in 2002. Stan Lee sued $ 10 million in benefits for movies and television series, based on a contract between him and Marvel 1998.99 Although the films of Marvel characters were initially made in collaboration with various film studios with no direct connection to the world of comics, Marvel Studios started producing their own films from 2008.100 The results of the direct involvement of Marvel in the production of his films have been a trilogy of Iron Man, the second installment of Hulk, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers. Deriving this way, in the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, currently one of the most successful franchises in the history of cinema.101