While Star Trek is Olsen's first film project as a prop maker, it is not his first experience working on a film. Earlier in 2007 he worked as a production assistant on two highly-anticipated films being distributed by Paramount Pictures in May 2008. The first film was Iron Man, based on the Marvel Comics character and featuring Faran Tahir, on which Olsen was a security supervisor. Afterward, he was brought on board as a confidentiality assistant for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, featuring Alan Dale and Pavel Lychnikoff.