The villain's in this movie are going to be more interesting in this movie than the first. I can't wait till they show The Black Widow.
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The villain's in this movie are going to be more interesting in this movie than the first. I can't wait till they show The Black Widow.
^^^scarlett in skintight black leather ftw
and that shot of mickey rourke maybe them showing a test run for the whiplash technology; russian government pr or something, i mean you see all the spectators in bleachers in the background...that first shot tauro posted is probably close to what the final suit will look like
Emily Blunt should've been Black Widow.
Two reasons:
1) She's hotter than Scarlett
2) She's a better actress than Scarlett
how long is this movie going to be if they're going to have justin hammer, whiplash, black widow, nick fury, jim rhodes and of course, tony stark? sounds like they're falling into the cliche of throwing in tons of characters.
i liked the first movie, even though it self destructed in the third act with jeff bridges overracting and just generally throwing any brains in the garbage.
^^ Yeah, that's the mistake they did with Spiderman 3 IMO. The Sandman was pretty cool by himself, they should of saved Venom for part 4.
fuck yes, they even gave her the wrist stingers
what's up with downey's facial expression...he has the same confused/frightened look as ghostface on the CL2 album cover...you're not exactly radiating intensity mr stark
I don't like that cover ... they should have put the helmet on him .. and just had the others as is .. and dark background .. would have been cooler.
^^^what color for the bg though...they needed something for contrast against scarlett's costume though i agree the white is bland...maybe used an actual environment for the backdrop...agree about the helmet as well
not sure about scarlett's princess curls either, and i hope her russian accent is better than her southern accent that she had in that awful movie with john travolta whose name escapes me
i'm looking forward to seeing this though
What makes no sense to me is that since they lost the red headed emily blunt and instead went for blonde haired scarlet, why couldn't they just have stuck with a blonde haired Black widow?
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Seemed unnecessary to dye her hair red just to appeal to fanboys.
^^^because yelena's a cheap knock off lol
natalia is the OG...and they're probably having her turn into a hero by the end, which is natalia's story not yelena's
Well thats fair enough.
i agree though that scarlet looks more like that picture you posted lol but i would almost guarantee she'll have a spot on the avengers movie their planning...which is looking to be the superhero equivalent of ocean's 11 but hopefully not garbage lol
i wonder when we get a teaser trailer or anything more substantial...it's still what like 9-10 months before this comes out?
Cool pic, thanks 4 posting. I'll maybe pick this up to read and to show some of the fella's at work.
what scares me about this cover is that mickey rourke looks like a beat up version of johnny depp
yea but the thing is mickey rourke will kick jack sparrows fuckin ass
he lost some of his shine on domino
i thought he was gonna bust in and kick some fucking ass
which he never did
dude is top notch in my book
btw i like this thread alot *D
We should be getting a teaser of some sort at Comic-Con. I'm pretty sure a teaser was shown for Iron Man at the 07' Comic-Con.Quote:
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Entertainment Weekly's second annual Comic-Con preview issue features Iron Man 2 on the cover, and inside it’s packed with exclusive first looks at highly anticipated TV shows, comic books, and movies. The first Iron Man blasted Robert Downey Jr. back to stardom, and the superhero franchise is readying to return to the big screen on May 7, 2010. Iron Man will battle new villain Mickey Rourke, size up Scarlett Johansson (exclusive photo of ScarJo as Black Widow, after the jump!), and, hopefully, prove that the success of the first movie wasn’t a fluke. Downey knows the movie isn't an underdog this time around. "There are a lot more invisible eyes on us now," he says.
When Marvel Studios first announced the sequel, no one was sure what the movie would be about. Downey, director Jon Favreau, screenwriter Justin Theroux, and the rest of the creative team struck upon the idea of introducing two very different foes for Stark. On one side is Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell), a fast-talking weapons manufacturer who fancies himself the next Tony Stark; on the other, Vanko, who, while incarcerated in a Russian prison, creates his own battle-suit, which shoots devastating, whip-like beams. Hammer and Whiplash join forces to take down Downey’s character, Tony Stark. Rourke, for his part, wanted to instill some lightness into the role of the heavy. "I told Favreau, 'I don't want to just play him as a one-dimensional p----,'" he says. "He let me have a cockatoo, who I talk to and get drunk with while I’m making my suit."
Just as the deals were being hammered out, Terrence Howard -- who had played Stark’s best friend -- fell out of the sequel in a public salary dispute. The role was re-cast, with Don Cheadle stepping in. "We had to make some tough deals," says Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. "When they got public, you go, 'That sucks. Okay, you want a peek behind the curtain? Here you are!'" Says Cheadle, "Terrence and I couldn’t be more different. We address it head-on in the movie in one exchange. We're not trying to fool people." (Cheadle admits he didn’t know much about Marvel’s superhero before the first movie came out: "I always thought Iron Man was a robot.")
Adding more flesh and blood to the new movie, Scarlett Johansson joined the cast as Stark’s mysterious new assistant, Natasha, who has an alter ego of her own, Black Widow. That introduction inevitably sparks romantic tension between Stark and former assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), who’s been promoted to CEO of Stark Industries. "The men want it to be, like, 'Ooh, the girls are fighting over Tony,' but it's not as standard as that," says Paltrow. "There's a weird male catfight fantasy. Downey agrees. He believes what differentiates the franchise from other superhero series can be summarized as follows: "We're horny. Not, like, can't-bring-your-kids horny, but just…horny."
The question remains whether Iron Man 2 will soar like the first film or show signs of rust when it hits theaters. "People are going to be more critical," says Downey. "That’s their prerogative….In a way, there's no way to win, except to win. Big."
For more on Iron Man, as well as a first look at the hottest movies and TV shows heading to Comic-Con, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands Friday July 17.
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As production wrapped on Iron Man 2 at 1:10 a.m. Sat, July 18, Jon Favreau thanks cast and crew for all of their hardwork on the film.
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By John Cerilli
The cameras started rolling on April 6 and filming ended today, July 18. After 71 days of shooting, “Iron Man 2” wrapped principal photography—right on schedule!
So how did it go? Was it tougher getting “Iron Man 2” shot than it was “Iron Man?” To find out, we went directly to one of the key players in the Marvel movie world, Kevin Feige, Producer of "Iron Man 2" and President of Marvel Studios!
"Shooting 'Iron Man 2' was a fantastic experience and we couldn't be happier. Although there were many challenges in making this film, having Jon Favreau, Robert Downey, Gwyneth Paltrow and almost the entire crew from the first film back on board, allowed us to hit the ground running as everyone was instantly familiar with each other from day one,” Feige told Marvel.com. “This dynamic allowed us to get done what we needed on a day to day basis and was a big factor in why we finished slightly ahead of schedule.”
Of course, we all know by now there’s also a bunch of new A-List actors interacting with the crew from the first film to make “Iron Man 2,” but according to Feige, it never became a concern.
“Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell and especially Don Cheadle all stepped right in and meshed well with our returning cast,” he said.
Additionally, the first time around on “Iron Man” afforded them keen knowledge when it came to producing key aspects of “Iron Man 2.”
”From our experience on the first film, we learned what works and doesn't work in terms of shooting practical versus CGI especially with the Iron Man suit,” Feige explained. “This enabled us to be much more efficient in many departments, making it a much smoother experience.”
But if you think making a film of this magnitude isn’t without its own particular obstacles, guess again.
"What’s more difficult in shooting a sequel is that expectations are much higher for this film and we really want to top what we did on the first film,” he said. “Every day involved working extremely hard in order to improve upon what we did on the first film."
So now with “Iron Man 2” in the can, what happens before we all get to see “Iron Man 2” on May 7, 2010?
"The next step for us is beginning the post production process which is extensive and filled with its own set of challenges,” Feige said. “It is also a very exciting time because you get to see all the hard work from the hundreds of cast and crew members begin to come to life."
Here's a first look at Don Cheadle as Jim Rhodes aka War Machine.
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fuck it looks way off
iono it just doesnt feel right
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^^I update the first post with the same photos just under my Photobucket.
Here he is...
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they haven't even come close to getting somebody that looks like james rhodes from the comics lol
should've got idris elba or michael jai white or somebody like that
cheadle's a good actor but he's another soft voiced skinny dude
New Photo of Scarlett Johansson in Iron Man 2
Source:Yahoo! Movies
July 21, 2009
Yahoo! Movies has debuted this new photo of Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff (AKA Black Widow) in Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios' Iron Man 2, opening in theaters on May 7, 2010.
Directed by Jon Favreau, the sequel stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Garry Shandling, John Slattery, Kate Mara, Clark Gregg and Olivia Munn.
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Updated the front page with footage description of the trailer that was premiered at Comic Con today and question/Answers AND a first look at War Machine. From what I read it sounds very promising. I can't wait to see War Machine!
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One would expect actor Don Cheadle to be one of the more nervous of the cast members of Iron Man 2 to appear at the San Diego Comic-Con to unveil never-before-seen footage, especially considering his addition to the cast came at the expense of popular actor Terrrence Howard. Howard portrayed James "Rhodey" Rhodes in the first Iron Man and was popular among fans, so there was some grumbling in the fan community when Cheadle stepped in to play the role and don the War Machine armor for the first time.
However, Cheadle was anything but nervous during the post-panel roundtable interview session I had the opportunity to participate in. With a big smile on his face and a bounce in his step, Cheadle plunked himself down at our table and dove right into the questioning with much enthusiasm. The natural first question for Cheadle was what his reaction was to the incredible footage of War Machine in full-blazing action shown at the very end of the Iron Man 2 teaser:
"It was pretty incredible. I mean, I hadn't seen any of the footage cut together. I didn't know what to expect. You know you're really out there on a leap of faith because you do your part and they go, 'Okay, this is going to be this,' and they explain it to you, and maybe they show you an animatic, but you don't really know what the end result is going to be. I mean, and even as good as that looked, that's still not the end result. That was rushed together, that's not totally finished, so it's going to be, 'Wow!'"
When asked how he prepared to play Rhodey, Cheadle said:
"I went back and looked at a lot of different--there's so many different iterations of James 'Rhodey' Rhodes in comic books, so it was hard to go, 'Well, I want to be the one in 1982...' It's like, which one am I picking? So...what's the common denominator here? The common denominator was really his friendship with Tony. And, that's what we really tried to track. How is there friendship impacted once Tony comes out and owns 'I am Iron Man' and now I'm in the military and there's a chain-of-command that I have to follow but you're working outside of the military and basically you're a live weapon that can do whatever it wants...that was the strain, that was the tension that was between their relationship that drives the whole movie, for our characters."
Cheadle left off a question abut whether he had any trepidation about having to sign a multi-picture deal in order to secure the Rhodey role:
"Well, what I know is that no matter what you sign, if the movie isn't successful, it doesn't how many movies we decide we were going to do, the public will say, 'We don’t want any more.' So, you want them to be successful and if they are successful, then, good, why wouldn't you want be in any more?"
When discussing the actual process of shooting the film, Cheadle said that working with green screens can be a tedious:
"Oh, it's very time-consuming. It's very time-consuming and very technical and meticulous and that's the part where you really have to trust these other teams of people that come on after you've walked off and handle it."http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images...achine%202.jpg
Apparently, Rhodey never meets Whiplash in the movie. Don said:
"I saw Mickey Rourke one day. I don't have any scenes with Mickey...I don’t think. Unless they drew me into one. "
Of course, that doesn't mean that War Machine and Whiplash don't have any scenes together...
When asked if he felt any pressure to portray Rhodey the way that Howard had played him, Cheadle said:
"Well, a lot of that was figured out before we began shooting. There were no marching orders, like, 'Watch the first movie and make sure that you come in here and you're paying off what Terrance did in the first movie.' It was really, 'You're in character, you're going to do your own thing, we have to find out what works for this movie, and honor this story,' which is a whole new story. That's why I liked how we kind of just dealt with it right up front, first scene, first moment that I was here on screen, say something about it and then just move on. "
I asked Don if his relationship with Terrence had been affected by the drama surrounding the role change and he said:
"No, no, because I didn't take a role from Terrance, you know. It's potentially weird between he and them because, you know, that was their deal. But, by the time I came on, he was already not doing the movie. "
Cheadle said that Howard had been the first one to wish him luck when he got the role and continued saying:
"Terrance has been a friend for a while. I produced Crash and put him in Crash. And, I was his friend before that too, so he knew there was no beef. I didn't snake a part from Terrance. He was cool with me."
When asked if there was any other dream superhero role out there that Don would just love to play, he chose the founder of Buddhism over more obvious choices:
"Siddartha. I mean, that's a crazy answer, but it's true. Comic books, you know, I really liked Swamp Thing. I loved that comic. And, I loved The Dark Knight. I was a fan of that comic book. "
Iron Man 2 also stars Robert Downey Jr., Sam Rockwell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke and Samuel L. Jackson. There are also rumors that Edward Norton will reprise the role of the Hulk in the film, but Norton has refused to comment.
Unlike nearly every other celebrity that took the stage in Hall H over the course of the San Diego Comic-Con, actor Robert Downey Jr. didn't stroll out following an introduction. Instead, he took the stage while the room was dark for the screening of a mock teaser trailer. When the lights went up, Downey Jr. was revealed and the crowd went wild.
Following the panel, I had the opportunity to sit down with Downey Jr. and he described the "rockstar" feeling he gets from a reception like that as a "fleeting" one. He said:
"The 'Hall H experience.' I don't know what to say. I think the weird--honestly, I think the weird thing is I have a job and I like it a bunch. And, I like it best when I'm doing it. And then there's a bunch of other stuff that seems like...like, when I was a teenager, what I wanted was the experience of walking into a Hall H and having a reaction like that, but I didn't actually want to have to do what it took to maybe earn anywhere near the kind of, you know, pseudo-respect that gets you in that position. So, I...don't really quite know what to make of it. I know that it feels good, but I also know that one should exert caution over things that feel good just for a second and then are done."
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images...an%202%20b.jpgThe topic quickly turned to Tony Stark, the character that has thrust Downey Jr. back into the limelight after a decade spent struggling to crawl out from under the transgressions of his past history of substance addiction.
"(Tony) was thought of as this kind of charming prick and then he is almost killed and then he exerts his own escape. Kind of heroic, but really on his own behalf. So, I think that there’s probably a bit of an imposter complex and no sooner has he said, 'I am Iron Man,' than he’s wondering really what means. If you have all of this cushion like he does and the public is on your side and you have immense wealth and power...I think he's way too insulated to be okay, you know?"
Downey Jr. made a comment that possibly aludes to the famous "Demon in a Bottle" storyline from Iron Man (Vol. 1) #120-128:
"(Tony's)struggling with some sort of contamination of his own system and he has a very formidable guy [Whiplash] saying, 'I don’t care what everyone thinks about you, I know that you come from a family of murderers and thieves and I’m gonna take you out of your misery.' And, maybe, he almost half wants that to happen."
When asked about the complexity of the story, Downey Jr. got very excited. He said:
"It's badass. This story is really sweet. We're so proud of it because we, we literally, we worked so hard and spent so much time together and worked so many weekends and tore our eyebrows out to try to find the best way to express the most stream-lined version of the complexities of what really would happen.
Sam Rockwell's character, Justin Hammer, is introduced in Iron Man 2 and it's not clear exactly how he fits into Tony's life, but Downey Jr. said:
"Well, I think if Justin Hammer is ready to step in and fill Tony’s shoes and say 'Hey, dude, just let me do it for you.' But if you look at Justin Hammer and you look at the way Sam Rockwell plays him it would be like, 'Not you, buddy! You’re a jerk, I don’t trust you,' and maybe he should have trusted him. Or, maybe he’s more trustworthy than Tony thinks. But, I think that Tony thinks he can handle everything if he just gets enough space and he can figure everything out if he just puts his mind to it.
And, that’s not the way it works. And, I think that’s the big lesson in this film, is that he has to utilize not only all of his own resources but the resources of those close to him and then resources from somewhere he never, ever, ever could’ve imagined. And it's not just as obvious as, like, S.H.I.E.L.D. steps in, it’s actually a lot more primal than that."http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images...an%202%20a.jpg
Tony's relationship with James "Rhodey" Rhodes is more strained in this film than in the last one, as evidenced by a brief encounter between the two in a courtroom scene shown at Comic-Con. Downey Jr. explains:
"As we remember, in the previous incarnation, I give Rhodey a lot of shit and I don’t understand why when I got out of the weapons business he wouldn’t just come with me. Bu, I think there’s also a big learning curve here of, you know, Rhodey is used to 'Everything you do, you do with a wingman, and when you go it alone lives are lost,' and I think Tony’s thing is that Rhodey doesn’t know what it's like to go it alone and be the lone samurai."
Downey Jr. said that there's the requisite amount of action for a film of this type, but that there's nothing gratuitous about any of it:
Every piece of action that happens in Iron Man 2 is a direct result of a part of a character arc. Including, probably the biggest sequence in the first hour of the movie just happens because...anyway, I don't want to give it away...everything is a result of essentially dysfunction or mistakes made and those mistakes, when you're Iron Man and when you're surrounded by the kind of people he is, the ramifications are ginormous."
And, of course, what every fan wants to know is how Tony Stark/Iron Man will factor in the movie version of The Avengers, which is tentatively slated for a 2012 release date. Downey Jr. admitted that he has been included in talks about The Avengers, but said that there was a lot of work to be done before that:
"I'm in a really enviable position that I'm part of the creative team from the inception. This one really took a lot out of us because we knew that we had to meet our own expectations and, therefore, the expectations of the people who made this film successful. So, as far as Avengers goes...that's the mountain, you know, that's the mountain that would have to be carefully climbed, I guess."
Iron Man 2 also stars Mickey Rourke as Whiplash, Don Cheadle as Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War Machine, Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Jon Favreau returns as director.
Iron Man 2 opens May 7, 2010!
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With the Hall H applause still ringing in my ears, I proceeded upstairs to a private set of roundtable interviews with the cast of Iron Man 2. Up first, was Sam Rockwell, who plays Justin Hammer, Tony Stark's competitor and, later, his adversary.
http://comicbookmovie.com/images/use...20Rockwell.jpgWhen asked about the character of Justin Hammer, Rockwell said:
"He's an arms dealer and he's a Tony Stark wannabe, you know. I think he's awesome. He's great, following in the footsteps of Jeff Bridges and Bill Murray in Kingpin and a few other adversaries.
Apparently the character wasn't fully formed when Rockwell was hired. He said:
"We sort of didn't know where (Justin) was going and we discovered that as we shot the film, which is also kind of exciting. It also takes the pressure off you, because you're like--you know, I got a speech a half-hour before we shot it. I got a speech at lunch time, so I had to learn that and figure that out and use little tricks, you know, but we got it. It's on film, it's on celluloid."
Only minutes before the interview, Rockwell had been on stage in front of more than 6,000 fans for the Iron Man 2 panel. He was somewhat subdued during the panel and did not say very much. When asked if the crowds were intimidating, Rockwell said:
"It's a little intimidating, but seeing the trailer is really wild because we've been working on the film--we just wrapped about a week ago, so it felt like a smaller endeavor to us, and then to see that kind of filmmaking up there is pretty awesome, pretty impressive. So, I'm kind of like, "Wow, this is a big deal."
Rockwell couldn't divulge too much about the plot, but he admitted that his character and Mickey Rourke's character, Whiplash, team up against Iron Man. He said that Tony snubs Justin, which sets him off.
"Whiplash and I--Ivan and I do team up together. I'm sort of a patron of evil, I suppose. Actually, he's a big fan of Tony. Tony doesn't really want to hang out with Justin, so I think that angers Justin."
When asked about the process of developing the character of Justin Hammer, Rockwell said that it was not difficult, even though he was only given bits and pieces of the script to work with. He said:
"It's kind of like the way we worked on Charlie's Angels, with the exception that we had 17 writers for that and we only had one writer, which was Justin Theroux--thank God, you know--but it's a similar process and yet, because (director Jon Favreau) is an actor who comes from improve it's really actor-friendly, this process. So, it's very character driven. We didn't get a full script until like a week before shooting. I would get little pieces here and there. But, I would have conversations about it and I would get the scenes and go to my acting coach--a guy named Terry Knickerbocker--and we would work on the material. Even though the material might change... the homework I had done on it still pays off because it's still the same imaginary circumstances even though (something has) changed. So, it is possible to do preparation for a movie like this, but it's an unconventional way to work."
Finally, I asked Rockwell if he ever tries on the War Machine armor in the movie, since he is the one who develops it for the military. Rockwell smiled and said, "We'll see. We'll see," and then changed the subject. Could the footage of War Machine shown firing his guns in the teaser actually have Justin inside and not James "Rhodey" Rhodes? We'll have to wait and see.
Iron Man 2 opens May 7, 2010.
Following the debut of the first official Iron Man 2 teaser footage, I had the opportunity to sit down with actress Scarlett Johansson to discuss the role of Natasha Romanoff, AKA the Black Widow and some of the rumors surrounding this much-anticipated sequel.
http://comicbookmovie.com/images/use...0Johansson.jpgJohansson said that she was nervous when she first contemplated wearing a skin-tight superhero costume:
"I had a bit of a freak-out moment. Well, it was more seeing the--'cause the costume took a while to build it, obviously, but I saw some of the sketches and I knew what to expect because I had obviously seen the kind of later incarnation of the character. I knew that it was going to be some kind of cat suit of some kind. So, I had a freak-out moment, but that only lasted about, you know, half-a-day and I was like, 'Suck it up, you gotta just do it,' so I never turned back after that. I just went, like, full force."
In addition to fears over how she would look in the costume, Johansson admitted that she was afraid the costume would impede her ability to perform:
"But, as far as the action sequences go, and how the costume relates to that--one thing that's obviously important to my character is that the costume moves, the character is, you know, an expert of hand-to-hand combat, she's a mixed martial artist, she comes from a dance background, there's some gymnastics thrown in--it's kind of like everything all thrown into one big, sort of, fighting machine. So, a big part of me was like, "Can I move in this, can I run in it?"
Johansson was hesitant to reveal too much about the
Black Widow and her relationships with the other characters in the movie, but she said:
"There are sort of two sides to my character, she's a bit of a shape-shifter, I suppose. There's a side of the character that's kind of demur and sort of covert, and, um, kind of…I wouldn't say that she's submissive, but she's kind of blending into sort of Stark Industries of some kind. And, then the other part of the character, which is a really aggressive and badass character that is sure of herself and is going to kick the shit out of you if you get in her way. That's about as much as I can tell you."
I asked Scarlett about the recent rumors that there was tension between her and actress Gwyneth Paltrow--who reprised the role of Tony's assistant, Pepper Potts—over the attention that Johansson was receiving and she said:
"No, nothing could be further from the truth. I have nothing but wonderful things to say about working with Gwyneth. She's totally out of the loop. She's very much out of the loop. You know, she's got a wonderful family she spends a lot of time with, so for her, she's like, 'What's going on? What?' And, of course, (director Jon Favreau) who's like on his Twittering thing--he's so crazy about any kind of news about anything--is like, 'You haven't heard? You haven't heard?' He comes on set and I'm like, 'Oh, God,' you know. Every time I would say—I would say to Gwyneth--you know she would say, 'Oh, yeah, that was on the seventh,' and I would say, 'Are you sure that wasn't on the sixth?' And, (Jon) would go, 'Another cat fight! It's breaking out!'"
Johansson also said that there was no truth to the rumor that Paltrow snubbed Comic-Con:http://comicbookmovie.com/images/use...Johansson2.jpg
"Believe me, she's worthy of plenty of attention and I know that the fans love her. And, they're going to love to see her in this movie because her character really is able to, kind of, comes into her own. And, I know that she would love to be here, as well, but she's with her family."
Johansson deflected questions about the Black Widow's origins in the film and how connected the character might be to her comic book origins as a Communist spy:
"Well, I mean, like I said, the character remains quite mysterious in this film. All we kind of—you know, she's definitely—I mean, this movie is not about, like, revealing the Black Widow identity. Hopefully, if the character continues on, whether that be through Avengers or something like that we'll be able to explore more of her past. Obviously, you know, the film is present day, so to bring in that whole Communist aspect of the character might be a little bit dated."
Johansson said that signing a multi-picture deal was not daunting and was actually enticing to her, as an actor:
"We have a vested interest in our characters, as well. I mean, I didn't go into this going, 'Oh, this is the last I ever want to see of this character.' I want—I would love to see the character come back and, sort of, as I was saying, kind of reveal more about herself. I loved making the film. I loved working with Jon (Favreau). I loved working with Robert (Downey Jr.). And, so, you know, for me, as an actor, we kind of have a beginning, middle and end, and a one-and-a-half or two-hour segment or whatever, and we're done with it. So, for me to be able to bring something like this back and kind of develop the character is exciting and something we don't normally get to do as actors."
Iron Man 2 opens May 7, 2010.
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Director Jon Favreau endeared himself to comic fans long before Iron Man debuted in theaters and proved he had respect for the source material because he took early footage and the cast to the Mecca of comic book fans, the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con. The teaser footage, played with Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" blasting in the background, was received with thunderous applause from the audience and the word got out from there that Iron Man was not going to be B-list, even if the character was perceived that way.
http://comicbookmovie.com/images/use...Favreau%20.jpgTwo years and $585 million later, and Favreau returned to the Con with teaser footage of Iron Man 2 less like a conquering champion and more like a solicitous friend:
"It was tough walking into that room after what happened last time and hoping that they would, like, be as enthusiastic about what we brought this time because now--we came out of nowhere, y’know?--now everybody saw what we did last time and you can only do it the first time once. So, it was really a matter of saying hey, we’re still here, thank you for putting us on the map and here’s what we’re thinking. And, here’s who we got and here’s our new additions, we hope you--it's like when you ask your finance’s father if you can marry his daughter, you know--sometimes it’s just the formality of doing it and coming here first and saying, hey look, this is what we’re doing but we want you to know and see it and we owe a lot to these people and I think that we have a relationship now more than having to prove anything, but it's like, 'We hope you like what it is and I’m sure I’ll hear it if you don’t.'"
Most people expected to see footage featuring Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, but she was barely featured. Favreau said that he had less to prove to the fans with her character, so Whiplash and War Machine were the focus:
"The jury was out on Scarlett for a while. You know there were some rumors about who we were going to cast and if it was going to work out with this one or that one and then we cast Scarlett and a lot of people were like, 'Really? Her hair's wrong, she's not the right build, she's not...' And, then she transformed herself and--I mean, she really did the work--and when those pictures came out online everybody was like, 'Wow.' So, I was like, 'Okay, that's not the big one,' you know? And, with Whiplash, we kind of wanted to show a little bit more of what we're doing with the technology of that character and explain how it fits into the story. But, the big thing we hadn't shown at all was War Machine. And, especially with the recast of that character, I think it was important for us to really stick it with that one and say, 'Hey, guys, here's our guy, here's what he does, and this is where we're going with it.' And, I'm glad it was received well."
The teaser footage showed Mickey Rourke's character, Ivan Vanko, constructing a mechanized suit much in the same way that Tony Stark did in the first Iron Man, and Favreau said that there's a big reason for that:
"The thing you gotta do is mix things up enough so that if you read the books you kind of know what's happening, but change it up a little bit so you don't know exactly what's going to happen. We want to unify the technology of what's going on with Iron Man, what's going on with Whiplash, and, you know, where is that leading, who's the character, and what's his name and how does this all work together. Not to blow too much, when...he's building Whiplash, it's mirroring in a lot of ways the assembly of the Mark I armor. Except under different circumstances. And so it's almost like the shadow version of Tony Stark coming from a different place going through a similar journey as him.
The big thing was how do you avoid always people in armored suits fighting people in armored suits? You don’t want Rock'em Sock‘em Robots the whole time. And, how to use different settings and different, you know, that sorta old James Bond-of-my-childhood-sense of you live on the world stage, larger than life, I mean, that's Tony Stark.
My God, there are so many superhero movies now. And, you know, I look at G.I. Joe and we can't do that again because they're doing it. You know what I mean? It's, 'How do you stay unique and inspired?'"
The final few seconds of the teaser footage showed War Machine unloading molten hell on an unknown assailant. Favreau said the differences between Iron Man's armor and War Machine's armor is really just a matter of taste:
"The thing that’s fun about War Machine is it's over the top and it’s like you know when Travis Bickle buys the guns in Taxi Driver you know...you know some shit’s gonna go down at the end of that movie. And so, Iron Man is the sleek elegant version where everything is contained under the airframe and War Machine is, you know, the over-the-top, everything hangin’ out and… you know, some people like chocolate, some people like vanilla, you know. Some people like chunky peanut butter, some people like smooth peanut butter and it creates a little bit of a rivalry between the two of them in that respect. So, we use guns...there’s lots of gun porn in this movie, lets put it that way. And it’s not just with that character, there's a lot--we're living in that world and it’s the extreme version of the military industrial complex. That’s the pool that we spawn from.
Favreau also shed some insight on the process of making a film as expensive and complicated as Iron Man 2, from the perspective of a writer and director:
http://comicbookmovie.com/images/use...avreau%203.jpg"Well, the writing process on this is very unique. You know, when I wrote Swingers, it was on my computer and then it was in front of people and we made it and cast it and got the money and shot it. And, you can look at that script and that's pretty much what it was. This one, the process began even before there was a writer. It tends to be the case with these types of movies where Robert (Downey Jr.) and I, Kevin (Feige, producer), all of us talking about what interests us. Where the character should go. Where the journey should start.
And, you begin to outline a basic storyline. And, then you start to break it down to scenes and set pieces--because you gotta start storyboarding those set pieces. And, so, I want him to go to Monaco and I want him to do this and it's six months after the first movie ends and "I am Iron Man," what's the relationship like with Pepper and how has he grown and how has he devolved from the first film. And, what has this added pressure changed about him. And, what's his arc gonna be, so it's not just another episode of the film, of the same movie. And, so, we arrive at that, then we outline it, and we meet, and story meet and Justin (Theroux, screenwriter) comes on and then we start breaking the scenes down to, 'This happens in this scene,' and then Justin—who has got a pretty clear take on Robert's voice from working on Tropic Thunder with him—starts working through a lot of that stuff and bringing ideas of his own. But, it's a very collaborative process and often times we're rewriting right up until...right on the day that we're shooting, we're rewriting. And, the script wasn't completely locked until we actually wrapped photography last week.
We know certain things that have to happen. We know the Mandarin storyline is underneath it. So we maintain a consistency, we know how we want it to kind of end, but really we're tracking the character relationships more than anything."
I asked Favreau if he had any plans to play any other Marvel characters, since he's already been Foggy Nelson in Daredevil and Happy Hogan in Iron Man and he said:
"I'm the only person to be two different characters in Marvel movies. I don't know, man. I was talking to people making Conan. It's not Marvel, but I'll get on the juice, man. I'll do it."
can i get some damn rep please? lol
I read all these interviews already but it's great for those that haven't checked for them I suppose.
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Our Marvel Movie mole has informed Nuke The Fridge of yet another cameo in the upcoming “Iron Man 2” film due out next summer. Our confidential source first reported that Stan Lee will make a brief appearance in the second Iron Man film as Larry King. Now rumor has it that Edward Norton will have a possible cameo as both Bruce Banner and the Hulk. If true, this will surely make some fans green with envy.
As a brief review,The Avengers issue #1 had Iron Man, The Hulk, Giant-Man, and The Wasp as the founding members. Captain America did not join The Avengers until issue #4. What is Marvel ramping up for?
If this turns out to be true, remember: NukeTheFridge.com broke this story first!
If you mean me then no, I wasn't. My post was a week or so before Comic-Con. A few things as my final word on the matter:
1. It's not a post-credits cameo.
2. Most of the first scene featuring Hulk has been dropped. The second Hulk scene will be left untouched as far as I'm aware.
3. Edward Norton arrives in the second act and has a scene with two main characters.
4. I'm not the source for the nukethefridge story or any of the other ones.
5. For those of you interested Norton (in person) and Leterrier (via teleconference) recently supervised a new edit of 'The Incredible Hulk' that will be released for the home market in the near future.
I'm no longer involved in the production having already completed my work on the film. I'm amazed that the Hulk news wasn't revealed at Comic-Con as a lot of us felt sure it was going to be.
That's really all I can say and I'm sure you'll be hearing news through the official channels shortly. Peace.
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