Favreau Talks Iron Man

Source SciFi Wire:

Jon Favreau, who will direct the upcoming film version of Marvel Comics' Iron Man, told SCI FI Wire that his movie will have a lot of action and wil also look back to an earlier half-man, half-machine. "I want to see a lot of stuff blowing up," Favreau said in an interview at the Saturn Awards in Universal City, Calif., earlier this week. "That's part of it. I've always been a big fan of RoboCop. And using today's technology to create a hero that has that kind of, you know, magnitude could be a lot of fun. There's also a whole geopolitical aspect of it that you you don't really see with other superheroes. And the politics are a little more complicated. So it deals with a lot of issues. I hope that we could, on the one hand, make it an enjoyable movie, [and,] on the other hand, explore certain subject matter that you wouldn't normally see in a comic-book movie."

Fans will see various incarnations of Iron Man's familiar red-and-yellow armor, he added: "Hopefully, we'll get to see a couple of suits of armor in it. Hopefully there's a progression. That's part of the fun of Iron Man. He had a lot of different looks." No one is cast yet, he said.

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