Jon Favreau To Direct Iron Man Movie
Man, some of the movie news I’ve been reading lately is getting progressively more outlandish, to the point where I keep checking if someone’s set the clock back to April 1st on me. Today Marvel dropped another huge bomb on us: Jon Favreau has been hired to direct the Iron Man movie! The last person who was attached to this project was Nick Cassavetes, and of course, Tom Cruise had long been rumoured to star as Tony Stark. No word on a cast as of yet, but it looks like the Smallville writing team of Miles Millar and Alfred Gough have also been replaced with Arthur Marcum and Matt Holloway (Convoy). Man, after Favreau turned his career towards more family-friendly films like Elf and Zathura, I never thought I’d see him directing a huge blockbuster like this. Can Favreau actually handle an action movie? There’s going to be a ton of pressure on him but personally I’m pulling for the guy. At the very least he’s got more balls than someone else we know, who turned down a comic book movie to retreat to his previous hit franchise (cough cough… Kevin Smith… cough cough).
Comments (3)
First off, if Doug Liman could make a transition from Swingers to the eventual Bourne Identity/Mr.& Mrs. Smith…I think Favreau can.
Second, it’s pretty obvious who should play Tony Stark…Ghostface.
Posted by Jay C. on April 28th, 2006Iron Man = Vince Vaughn, you can’t deny it. Dude always looks like a bloated alcoholic.
Posted by Nuno on April 28th, 2006jonny fav will be great, i think that they should definitely get vinnie vaughn to be Ironman, screw tommy cruise.
Posted by Chopper on April 28th, 2006Leave a Reply