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Deleted 'Iron Man' Scene Every Man's Fantasy
With
Iron Man hitting video shelves on September
30th, Marvel and Paramount have leaked a deleted scene from the film to generate
a ton of free publicity. And here's the best part: They were holding out on us.
This scene actually rocks.
Robert Downey Jr. and
Gwyneth Paltrow are the featured performers,
however, I can't take my eyes off their co-stars, and I think that's by design.
Billionaire industrialist and bad boy Tony Stark takes home three ready and
willing brunettes in the scene. That's right: It's our first Marvel foursome
ever captured on film. Or the build-up to that, anyway.
It also provides a much-needed plot point, transitioning
Stark from the West Coast to the Middle East. The scene takes place at Stark's
home in Dubai, which just adds to the whole
billionaire-who-could-score-a-foursome mystique of the character. But Marvel has
never had a hero with this kind of sexual appetite before, so cutting the
sequence out for theatrical purposes makes some sense, too.
Still, if it debuted on Access Hollywood, I think
it would've been just fine to leave it in the film.
Again, an all-the-bells-and-whistles Iron Man is
coming to DVD on September 30th, and you just watched the best commercial for it
money could - but did not have to - buy. (Thanks to
Trailer Addict for the video.)

Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 03:54AM
by
Colin Boyd
in Comic Book Movies, Video, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Robert Downey Jr, Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow
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Iron Man Just Doesn't Get 'The Dark Knight'
"'I'll burn that bridge when I come to it' is my
favourite phrase I've ever coined," admitted
Robert Downey Jr. recently in an interview with
Moviehole.

It's hard to argue that anyone is
enjoying a better year in Hollywood, both in current box office stature and when
you consider the sorts of roles he's lining up for down the road. This would be
that time in someone's career when they might begin to "play the game" to
protect the little empire they've suddenly found waiting for them. But Downey is
apparently not going to start kissing ass anytime soon, even after the
tremendous success of
Iron Man and his almost immediate follow-up as
an Australian playing an African American 35 years in the past in the new comedy
Tropic Thunder.
In an interview that covers a lot of ground, from the
inspirations of his character Sgt. Osiris in Thunder to the
not-too-distant Sherlock Holmes reboot with Guy Ritchie, the most interesting
comments Downey makes are about another movie, one he has no part in.
"My whole thing is that I saw
The Dark Knight," he begins. "I feel like I'm
dumb because I feel like I don't get how many things that are so smart. It's
like a Ferrari engine of storytelling and script writing and I'm like, 'That's
not my idea of what I want to see in a movie.'"
Gasp: Iron Man taking a swing at Batman? Just wait: It
gets better.

"I loved [director Christopher Nolan's] The Prestige but didn't understand The Dark Knight. Didn't get it, still can't tell you what happened in the movie, what happened to the character and in the end they need him to be a bad guy. I'm like, 'I get it. This is so high brow and so f--king smart, I clearly need a college education to understand this movie.' You know what? F-ck DC comics. That's all I have to say and that's where I'm really coming from."Classic. Sounds like he came to that bridge just in time to set it on fire.
Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 01:26AM
by
Colin Boyd
in Comic Book Movies, Batman, DC Comics, Dark Knight, Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr
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Marvel Talks Future Projects, Mum on 'Spider-Man 4'
When you get to be Marvel big, you get to talk about how
much money you're making and somehow it's legitimate news. Yahoo! Business
covered Marvel's second quarter earnings conference call, and during the
meeting, studio chief
David Maisel talked not just about the second
quarter of this year (which, of course, included both
Iron Man and
The Incredible Hulk as theatrical releases),
but also about the future. 
He touched on the sequel to Iron Man,
plus the company's plans to make
Thor in 2010, as well as
The First Avenger: Captain America and the
ensemble
Avengers flick, both of which are scheduled for
2011. We know, for example, that
Iron Man 2 is the only movie on the books right
now through which Marvel is using the services of Paramount, and it will kick
off the blockbuster 2010 summer.
We also know that Maisel didn't become a chairman of a big
company because he answers every question directly. Dig his response to whether
or not
Spider-Man 4 would conflict with the studio's
summer '11 slate. Sony wants the movie to kick off summer in early May, right
around the time Captain America is scheduled to be released, which itself
will set up The Avengers later about six weeks later.
"(W)e always have a lot of options now that we control
green light and our destiny with these films. Obviously we can't respond to
hypotheticals and what we would do with various either competitive moves or
partner moves, like Sony with Spider-Man," argued Maisel. "So at this
point, I'd just have to say once a move like that happens, we'll obviously let
our response be made publicly but it wouldn't be constructive to respond to a
hypothetical."
Huh?
I think what he's saying is "We have no comment, and
when we do have a comment, we'll comment at the appropriate time. But until
then, I can't really say, because we have no comment."
Obviously, this would send that summer into a tizzy.
Marvel may be kind of backed itself into a corner with their Sony deal, and they
have a lot more flexibility with many of their newer projects, which Marvel likes to
finance itself and rely on studios for distribution. Sony/Columbia bankrolls
some of the Spidey Empire, so it's tougher to finagle.
But Spider-Man is still Marvel's crown
jewel, as it is for Sony, so we may see a late April release for
Spidey or a slight shift for the other Marvel movies that summer.
Obviously, nobody's prepared to push Spider-Man up a year, and if you do
it in 2012,
Tobey Maguire will be almost 37. Does anybody
really want to see that, especially since he didn't even bother getting in shape
for the third one?
But is that too much Marvel in one summer? Will comic
book movies still be the trend three years from now? And if Marvel has three
movies in two months, which ones will do well? We saw what happened this year
with just two movies. I doubt they want a repeat of The Incredible Hulk's
performance.
(Thanks to
IGN for their coverage of this story).
In related news, the Iron Man DVD will be
released on September 30th in the convenient "Ultimate Edition," which frankly,
is pretty ultimate. A seven-part documentary on the making of the film, six
featurettes on the origins of the character, quizzes, deleted scenes,
Robert Downey Jr.'s screen test, the
entertaining Onion article, "Wildly Popular Iron Man Trailer to be
Adapted into Full Length Film," and more.

Posted on Saturday, August 9, 2008 at 01:32AM
by
Colin Boyd
in Comic Book Movies, Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Marvel Comics, Tobey Maguire, Thor, Captain America, Avengers, Spider-Man
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Samuel L. Jackson Talks Up Nick Fury and the Upcoming Marvel Movies
Samuel L. Jackson is just full of good news
this week. The star of the upcoming graphic novel adaptation
The Spirit is attending Comic Con in support of
that flick (due out at Christmas), and there's news about another Afro
Samurai project as well as a Nick Fury/Avengers update.
Ace Showbiz says that Jackson aims for us to
see more of Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. in all the upcoming Marvel
movies, culminating in "the big one," as he calls it, 2011's
The Avengers.
"Yeah, I'm looking forward to making that character a
bit more integral, in terms of the other stories that are happening," says
Jackson, who'll be in his early 60s by the time The Avengers gets here. "Iron
Man 2,
Captain America,
Thor, and hopefully the big one that's coming
in 2011, when they put everybody together."
Apparently, Jackson's dying to start crankin' out the cameos, too. He says, "Iron
Man 2 is coming sooner! I'd rather go to work than wait three years and be
in The Avengers. I'm looking forward to going to work soon."
Getting to work soon hasn't been a problem for Jackson,
who has averaged one movie in theaters every three months since Pulp Fiction
was released back in 1994. That's quite a run. One other character he's honing,
although it won't be seen in theaters, is Afro Samurai. Jackson voiced the title
character in the original, and the sequel is
due to premiere on Spike TV next January.
Lucy Liu and
Mark Hamill will contribute their voices to
Afro Samurai: Resurrection, as well.
In the meantime, the never dormant Jules Winnfield will
pop up in
Star Wars: The Clone Wars,
Lakeview Terrace,
Soul Men, and of course, The Spirit
between August 15th and December 25th.
Posted on Friday, July 25, 2008 at 11:34PM
by
Colin Boyd
in The Spirit, Comic Book Movies, Samuel L. Jackson, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Thor, Captain America, Avengers
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'Iron Man 2' Zeroes In On New Writer
We all know that
Iron Man 2 is on the way - hell, we kind of
knew that before the first
Iron Man hit theaters - so I'm a little puzzled
that the band is already being broken up a bit. Instead of bringing
screenwriting duos Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum and Matt Holloway,
The Hollywood Reporter says that
actor-writer
Justin Theroux is taking over the script for
the sequel.
Though you probably don't know his work in front of the
camera as well if at all, you'll soon be slapped in the face by a steady stream
of Theroux; he's a producer and co-writer of
Tropic Thunder, which hits theaters on
Wednesday, August 13th.
We know
Robert Downey will be back (he had a sequel
clause in his first contract, so this was never open to discussion), and we
heard last week that Marvel and
Jon Favreau have agreed in principle to terms
that will bring the director back for another film.
But I can't help thinking that the transition between
the first and second films should have gone more smoothly. Favreau has already
moaned about not having enough time to get the second film ready in under two
years (which might not be the strongest argument, really, when a Transformers
sequel can do it). There is validity behind what he's saying, however, and it's
a tone that says Marvel should have been a little quicker to act and a little
more on point this summer prepping the next movie instead of basking in its own
glory and announcing a slate of films for the next three or four years.
Nothing against Justin Theroux, but Tropic Thunder
is his first screenplay to make it into theaters, and he co-wrote it with Ben
Stiller...who had the original idea 20 years ago, and has written plenty of
things over the years. It just seems like it makes more sense to work with some
of the writers who crafted a screenplay mainstream audiences really enjoyed and
comic book fans praised for its accuracy. And for anyone who automatically
assumes this sequel will be fine and a change at the most important creative
position doesn't mean anything, look how quickly the Spider-Man franchise
turned ugly between its second and third installments.
I'm a big believer in the notion that if you can make a
better movie, do it. Sounds practical to me. If Marvel thinks this is the way to
do that, great, but if it's not...
Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 12:23AM
by
Colin Boyd
in Sequels, Comic Book Movies, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Robert Downey Jr, Jon Favreau
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