Comments on: Jon Favreau And Marvel Still Negotiating Over Iron Man 2

By: Kalani Anderson

Kalani Anderson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:39:15 +0000

If you make any changes just don’t take the main stars out of the movie thats what makes you lose a lot of people and when you lose people you lose money.

By: Tony Stark

Tony Stark — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:08:52 +0000

If anyone but Jon makes my next movie I will be really depressed. In fact I need a drink right now just thinking about it…

By: Latin Friend

Latin Friend — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:29:32 +0000

“obviously beyond your meager skills”??? That from a guy who criticizes insulting instead of making an argument??? What an ass! You didn’t even singled out ONE element that was brought by the writers to the movie. And I never said they did a poor job. Just that I could do the same shit based on the comics, but I would never dream in directing it…

By: Kryptonite

Kryptonite — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:42:00 +0000

Latin Friend:

You can barely write e-mails, never mind a Hollywood script. The writers didn’t just “follow the comic books”, either. Quite a few elements were taken from the comics, absolutely. But some of the story elements in the movie happened DECADES apart in the comic books! To take those elements and produce a coherent script, in essence transforming the story from one medium to a completely different one in the process, is NOT as easy as you think, and is obviously beyond your meager skills.

John’s right: the writers had at least as much to do with the success of this movie as Favreau.

And Daniel-J: In short, don’t be such a douchebag. You know your ideas can’t stand up to real criticism, so you begin by insulting anyone who dares disagree with you. LAME! I await your retort, as pathetic as it will be….

By: George

George — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:47:32 +0000

According to one site Marvel have put an offer out to favreau today.

By: Latin Friend

Latin Friend — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:21:45 +0000

I’m going to say it again, cause I want to make my stand: I think Favreau’s job was more decisive for the success of the movie than the writer’s. And if John Campea, whose ideas are often great, desagree, so be it. But know man, that i’m not alone. I consider myself a nerd that can write pretty well – maybe better in portuguese – and I totally think that I could write that script. For those who think that the director just followed the script, I ask you: DON’T YOU THINK THAT THE WRITER JUST FOLLOWED THE COMIC BOOKS??? The great merit of the movie was not the “art of direction”, but a really great comic heroe flick. That’s that.

By: Jon G

Jon G — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:22:19 +0000

Daniel`J

Agree to disagree. His ideas and his direction of where he took the movie are a great deal of the reason the movie did so well and was so enjoyable. Is staying close to the script really such a bad thing? I mean that is what it is there for in the first place, right? If he had not gone with his ideas and gut instincts, we would have had something along the lines of X-Men 3.

As for the look, this isn’t the artistic type of movie. No one is looking for Speilberg-esque shots. The movie sets out to wrap you in with the characters and story and keep you entertained through the whole film, which I believe it did. A summer blockbuster is set to entertain the fans and make money for the studios, and it accomplished both thanks to the cast and crew under Favreau’s direction. Having a mega-blockbuster your first time around is not something 100 other directors could have done.

By the way, you must be hanging out with some EXTREMELY talented first year film students. ;)

By: xgdfalcon

xgdfalcon — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:24:59 +0000

“tipped off by a junior source” ????
“1 phone conversation in the last 5 weeks”????

John, I’ll go back to the 1st point in your article. This doesn’t mean anything. I’ll go as far to say it ALWAYS takes more than “one phone call” to get anyone to sign/resign for anything. A lot of speculation with a genesis of “a junior source”.

The success of Iron Man doesn’t rest on any one person. As with any ‘project’ in any ‘business’, it takes a team to achieve success, but only 1 person to cause a failure.

That being said, It doesn’t matter who the studio gets as at this point. I believe that Marvel has more to worry about with Thor casting and production than Iron Man 2.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:16:33 +0000

They’ll hire Favreau again. Studio execs like their jobs. They won’t make the decision to switch directors, because if they do, and the second movie tanks, they’ll take the fall. Favreau has them by the snardlies.

By: 790

790 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:24:25 +0000

Everything will change after the Hulk premire…..

Hulk Smash compatish!

By: Daniel-J

Daniel-J — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:27:00 +0000

Anyone who thinks Jon Favreau did a “great” job directing Iron Man knows absolutely nothing about the art of direction. He took the script and basically followed it like a paint by numbers book. Visually the movie had all the artistic merit of a first year film school student. No he didn’t screw the movie up when some others might have, but so could 100 other directors with basic skills.

By: Gutpunch

Gutpunch — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:06:07 +0000

The reason Iron Man did so well was because of Faverau and Downey. The script didn’t have an original bone in its body and was as clichéd as they come. It’s been one of the main points when people have been criticizing the film. It was an origin story plain and simple something that’s been done many many times before. But…that didn’t detract from the movie because Faverau and Downey handled the material well and made it fun.

Faverau has said that he came to the studio with the idea to cast Downey, they didn’t like the idea because the guy isn’t exactly the first actor you think of when casting a super hero film. So Faverau had to have him audition for the studio and then they saw the light. I don’t think there was much “fighting” since Downey was introduced pretty early in the production process.