IRON MAN Director FAVREAU Wants Your Input At MySpace?

By Wind(up)bird May 4, 2006 4:21 AM

In an interesting move to start a relationship with fans, Jon Favreau (actor, Swingers; dir. Elf), director of the coming Iron Man adaptation, has opened up a MySpace page to discuss elements of the flick (like who do we want to see play Tony Stark and why). ?Cool, eh? ?Yeah, it is. Click on to add your two cents.

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Don't Forget   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 5, 2006 4:10 AM

Don't forget that Stark was crippled and needed the suit to walk around as well as fight crime. In my mind, it was a major error they made in Ultimate Avengers.

RE: Don't Forget   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 5, 2006 8:12 AM

Yes.  And don't let me get started on Ultimate IRON MAN.  The whole story is just out of left-field. by Writer(s):Orson Scott Card

RE: Don't Forget   reply

Posted by chris009 (No Email) on May 5, 2006 11:39 AM

No offence, but are you stupid or what? If you thought Orson's story was way out in left field, you my friend need to read that series all over agian.  His retelling of a young Tony Stark growing up with his Father was phenomenal. Bryan Michael Bendis, Geoff Johns,Greg Rucka(some of the best writers in comics today)and numerous others commended Orson on his story after they read it. I know you're entitled to your opinion, but you are the fist person that i've heard of who did not like Ultimate Ironman. It's ok though, because Ultimate Ironman doesn't like you either.

RE: Don't Forget   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 5, 2006 2:06 PM

eh. crappy story-line that Ultimate Iron man.  way , way out of left field.  --> As of the first issue of the first miniseries, it appears that Tony Stark is a genius because of an accident his mother suffered while she was carrying him in her womb; he has undifferentiated neural tissue throughout his body, as if his whole body itself is a brain, giving him tremendous mental capacity: quicker in thought than any human in history, but at the cost of constant chronic pain similar to third-degree burns due to the overstimulation of the neural cells that make up his skin.  WTF?!  I actually paid $ thinking this was gonna be good.  :(  heavily dissapointed.

RE: Don't Forget   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 6, 2006 5:00 AM

At some point in the movie someone has to tell Ironman that he's 'So money'.

Urban is the man in the Iron Suit   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 8, 2006 7:21 AM

When you cast a Super hero character, then it should be a new actor who has never been a big star. Karl Urban would be my pick.

RE: Urban is the man in the Iron Suit   reply

Posted by chris009 (No Email) on May 9, 2006 6:06 AM

i'll agree with you there.

RE: Urban is the man in the Iron Suit   reply

Posted by chris009 (No Email) on May 9, 2006 6:14 AM

Holy crap! I guess we really do think alike there.  I was going to say that the guy who played John Grimm in Doom would be a great casting choice, but i couldn't remember his real name, I checked the cast listing and guess what?
his name was friggin Karl Urban.  Great minds think alike.

RE: Urban is the man in the Iron Suit   reply

Posted by CamaroMoon (MyCamaroMoon@yahoo.com) on May 10, 2006 11:47 PM

How about someone named Aaron for I am Aaron Man.  Or maybe Brad Pitt is Chad Schmidt, for I am Aaron Man.

ironman   reply

Posted by cocknoker (No Email) on May 12, 2006 9:00 PM

the whole ultimate thing at marvel has gotten stale....how about ultimate howard the duck...or ultimate f.o.o.m (fans of old marvel)..now they got marvel civil war  jeeez ....they're really reaching down into the grab bag of gimmicks. any way i think an unknown actor to play t.s/i.man..would be the way to go....cocknoker..out!!!!

Josh Lucas   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 13, 2006 3:18 PM

Stick with the original story,but instead of the Vietnam background use the 1st Gulf War. You should cast Josh Lucas. He got the intensity needed for this role. Tom Cruise is to short 5'7".

RE: Josh Lucas   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 14, 2006 5:19 AM

Ironman! Ironman!
Does whatever an Iron can!
Irons shirts, any size...
Socks and pants, even flys...
Look out! Here comes the Ironman!

RE: Iron Men   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 15, 2006 3:00 PM

Agreed. Marvel turned toward the pathetic after 1990, the re-hashed titles are weak.
I could see Billy Crudup or Billy zane as Tont Stark. Height has nothing to do with it. Cruise and Stallone who are both tiny just use other tiny actors to mask their inferior height.

iron man and john carter   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 16, 2006 3:54 AM

I know this is supposed to be mainly about IRON MAN but what I have to say is of a larger concept and/or idea. There are a number of directors: jackson, lucas, zemeckis, cameron, etc that are thinking about making the move from regular 2D to 3D. To do this they are working with  2 companies each with a different take on it. The companies are REAL-D and In-Three. I have looked over both of their technologies. I was working on a patent similar to both technologies and I am now going to work on something different since they both are going full-seam ahead with those methods. I am basically going to jump ahead to the next step.
 But as for Favreau, I think he should join these directors or at least contact these companies and think about making both of the aformentioned movies in the 3D format or do like they're doing for the upcoming superman movie and do 20 minutes of it in 3D for a release in IMAX and as well just for experimental purposes. Someone with his type of skills and creativity and team backing him  CANNOT LOSE on my favorite childhood comic book character (and my inspiration for becoming an electrical engineer) Iron Man. I'd love to see Favreau be a big success and join the likes of lucas and speilberg. Hell, I'd even work with him in any fashion to see him rise up. Go get 'em Jon!!!

yeah i posted it..   reply

Posted by axn (nextinventor) on May 16, 2006 4:00 AM

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 16, 2006 3:54 AM

sorry bout not signing in first.. this was my comment.

RE: Mr. Big Shot   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 16, 2006 5:24 AM

What projects have you done so far?

What is your name?

I'm asking because to state that you'd like to work with top names in a cut-throat industry seems absurd, unless you are one of the 1000th of 1% that gets lucky enough to be included. You must have some very impressive films under your belt. What are they?

the post above me   reply

Posted by cocknoker (No Email) on May 16, 2006 11:35 AM

shut yer damn pie hole....fuchtard !!!

Jon Favreau?/I don't know   reply

Posted by chris009 (No Email) on May 16, 2006 11:56 AM

I really wish Zemeckis, Cameron, or Jackon were doing this picture instead of Favreau.  No offence to him but I just don't feel he's the man for the job.  It's like telling me Billy Crystal is going to be directing the next Godfather movie.  Just doesn't fit with me.  Did Marvel not want to spend the money on a prominent director?  Of all the people that could be on a list for directing Ironman...and Marvel would choose Jon Favreau??? Seems strange.  Did anyone else notice that Zathura was a complete rip-off off of Jumangi? Did Favreau have no original ideas left of his own for a movie?  Very disappointing.  I hope the same thing that happened to Superman Returns and X-Men3 happens to Ironman(hopefully the director walks.... or switches with someone else on another picture)Hopefully it just doesn't take as long as the other two did.

RE: Jon Favreau?/I don't know   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 17, 2006 3:59 PM

Did anybody ever tell you that Zathura was created by the same people that created Jumanji? It's supposed to be alike!!! Get your facts straight.

RE: Jon Favreau?/I don't know   reply

Posted by chris009 (No Email) on May 18, 2006 6:00 AM

Ok I'll correct myself.
"The producers had no original ideas left for a movie." That still doesn't make the movie any better, it was still really awful.

RE: Jon Favreau?/I don't know   reply

Posted by chris009 (No Email) on May 18, 2006 6:02 AM

It also doesn't change that Favreau should not be directing this movie.

RE: Jon Favreau?/I don't know   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 18, 2006 4:07 PM

I agree with you on both accounts.

RE: Jon Favreau?/I don't know   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 20, 2006 5:15 PM

I hope you get F'd in the A.

Actual comments on the movie   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 21, 2006 9:58 PM

Aside from the general bashing, I'd like to offer some actual suggestions.  First, I would like to see something closer to the older version of Iron Man.  I'm an old time fan, back in the days when Tony Stark needed to chest plate to keep the shrapnel from the land mine from destroying his heart. (that was before Thor replaced it with an artificial heart, which was all that saved his life when the crazy ex shot him, and the bullet deflected off the artificial heart and merely severed his spine, paralyzing him)  
Anyway, keep to the classic material, not the newer brain-dead crap that Marevel has piled on since the late 90's.  That's why I stopped giving them my money every month.

Next, I would ask that you actually try focusing on the story and the characters.  I know some directors (Speilberg and Lucas come to mind) get so obsessed with the special effects they expect it to carry the story.  I thin Iron Man deserves better then that.  TOny Stark is a character with 40 years of a very rich history.  Mine that for ideas and you should be able to come up with something much better then the lame attempt at a Fantastic Four movie.  

There's your warning, aim more for Spiderman, less for Fantastic Four.

Awa   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 19, 2006 3:33 PM

i don't think the problem is iron man at all. i think it's the storyline u got to base it on the comic and not the war.

Tom Cruise as Iron Man   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 7, 2006 4:52 AM

Who thinks Tom Cruise should be Iron Man?

picked wrong guy   reply

Posted by bp (vbeachbumm123@aol.com) on October 19, 2006 6:40 PM

Jon Favreau I don't really know who you or what movies you've done, but you made a big mistake in picking Robert Downey Jr. as the man who will play Ironman. Ed Quinn from a Scifi's Series called Eureka, plays a man named Nathan Strark, is a Nobel-prize winning mathematician, Eureka's head researcher, Charming to a fault and keenly brilliant. This guy looks like ironman, acts like him, and would definately do a better job than Downey Jr., but he's not a big named actor so thats probaly why he wasn't asked. I don't know even know what movies Downey Jr.'s been in but I know if he palys in this movie it won't be that good, sure you'll probally make some money off of the movie, but I think you might want to reconsider. later