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Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Marvel Studios have hired Jon Favreau, the director of “Iron Man,” to come back for the sequel. (Some language in the link.) I assume more info, and an official announcement, will be along soon if the report is accurate.
– Matt Price
Action-Figure.com has a rundown of upcoming animated Marvel properties, including a direct-to-DVD version of “Planet Hulk,” to be produced by LionsGate. It’s set for a late 2009 release.
Also in the works:
Hulk: Gamma Corps, starring the Hulk, She-Hulk and Doc Samson, this is contingent on the performance of the film.
Iron Man: Armored Adventures, a CGI series coming from Nickelodeon.
Also in the planning stages are “Marvel Extreme - Wolverine” and “Marvel Super Hero Squad.”
– Matt Price
Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca’s “Invincible Iron Man” continues to pick up post-movie buzz and sales. Marvel has sold out all copies at the distributor level. Copies may remain available at retail stores, but if you’ve missed out, the second print is planned for July 9.
– Matt Price
From Friday’s Weekend LOOK:
By Matthew Price
WORD BALLOONS
The success of “Iron Man” the motion picture is translating into sales in comic shops as Marvel reported sellouts at the distributor level of “Invincible Iron Man” No. 1, by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca, and “Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas” No. 1, by Jon Favreau and Adi Granov.
Favreau directed the “Iron Man” movie, and was approached by Marvel to write a comic book featuring the character.
“It’s a four-part series with Adi Granov, with all the stuff you can’t do in the movie because you don’t have the freedom,” Favreau said at the recent “Iron Man” press day in New York. “He and I had met each other through working on this film, and he helped design the suit, and we based the suit design on his drawings.”
Granov worked on the “Extremis” storyline in “Iron Man” with writer Warren Ellis. In “Viva Las Vegas,” Favreau wasn’t constrained by budget restrictions.
“(Iron Man is) fighting Fin Fang Foom in it, which is like this over the top ancient Chinese dragon villain that you really, I don’t think you could get away with (in the film) – maybe in No. 3.”
“Invincible Iron Man” features Tony Stark facing off against Ezekiel Stane, the son of Obadiah Stane, the original Iron Monger, played in the film by Jeff Bridges. Fraction told Marvel.com about his take on Tony Stark, aka Iron Man.
“Tony Stark is equal parts James Bond and Chuck Yeager — a pioneer, a test pilot, an engineer, an adrenaline junkie visionary,” Fraction said. “Iron Man is the ultimate achievement in what we, as humans, can become. He’s not the product of cosmic rays or a radioactive spider. He is the triumph of human ingenuity over the frailty of the human form.”
The second issues of “Viva Las Vegas” and “Invincible Iron Man” are set to ship June 4. Second printings of “Viva Las Vegas” No. 1 and “Invincible Iron Man” No. 1 are scheduled to be in comic book stores on June 11. Copies of first printings of the comics may still be available at the retail level.
Some eagle-eyed film viewers are pointing out an Easter egg of sorts in “Iron Man” — in a scene in Tony’s workshop, there’s a disc-shaped object that could be the shield of Captain America.
Superhero Times has the screen capture.
– Matt Price
Director of “Iron Man” Jon Favreau teams up with former “Iron Man” artist (and designer on the film) Adi Granov for a four-issue miniseries starring Tony Stark.
First off, the book looks great. Granov has a great take on Iron Man, and his work is always a pleasure to view.
On to the story: Elsa Bloodstone is seeking a large dragon artifact to bring back to Las Vegas for the opening of a casino. The artifact, however, triggers a freak occurrence that hints at more dire events. (SPOILER ALERT - Granov has said in interviews that the dragon is Fin Fang Foom.)
Favreau keeps Stark in character, but some of the events are hard to swallow. A man with a bomb strapped to his chest manages to get aboard a Stark Air flight, forcing Tony to subdue the terrorist. The passengers, headed for France, boo Iron Man’s intervention and tell him to “go back to America.”
Even if the idea is to put out the idea that America or Iron Man aren’t that popular overseas, it still seems a lot to assume that 1. it’s pretty easy for a bomber to get on a plane and 2. people would boo their rescuer.
In any case, Stark takes their hint and heads to Las Vegas to hook up with some tattooed women, where he’s drawn into events with the golden dragon.
The “Marvel Knights” series doesn’t necessarily tie into official continuity, though it doesn’t seem to explicitly be outside it, either.
A pretty quick read with some nice art and clever dialogue in parts; it doesn’t entirely hang together, but it’s probably worth picking up for Iron Fans.
– Matt Price
Fresh off the “Iron Man” movie, Marvel is launching a new ongoing Iron Man series, “The Invincible Iron Man,” by the creative team of writer Matt Fraction (”Punisher War Journal,” “Immortal Iron Fist”) and artist Salvador Larroca (”Uncanny X-Men”).
Tony’s a ladies man in “Invincible,” but also the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and his priorities lie with the latter. Introduced in “Invincible” is new baddie Ezekiel Stane (who first appeared in Fraction’s “The Order”), son of the original Iron Monger. The younger Stane takes weapons tech a step further, and has improved his own body with technology.
Stane is using an upgraded version of Stark tech to turn people into suicide bombers. Ezekekiel has the opportunity to become a major villain for Iron Man, replete with ties to history and ideological differences with Stark.
Fraction drops Pepper Potts and James Rhodes into the story, in ways that seem to owe a bit to their movie incarnations, but that are also pretty well in line with their modern continuity.
Larroca’s art looks great; from the technology to the expressions to the backgrounds, Larroca fires on all cylinders. “Invincible Iron Man” is a powerful launch for a solid creative team.
– Matt Price
CC2K talks to Tulsa-raised writer Sterling Gates about his recent “Green Lantern Corps” arc.
“I did do a lot of research for my story arc in Corps,” Gates tells CC2K. ”Though having already researched the Secret Files, it wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been. Boodikka of Bellatrix had a bunch of appearances to reread, and I kind of adjusted things other people had done that I thought made her weak or come off as stereotypical. My take on her as a Bellatrix Bomber is very different from anyone else’s, but I think it’s a more pure take on the character and unifies with how she’s been portrayed the last few years.”
According to Marvel’s first-quarter financial report received by Newsarama, Marvel has slated an “Iron Man”sequel and a ”Thor” film for 2010, and two “Avenger-themed” movies in summer 2011: “Captain America” in May and “The Avengers” in July.
– Matt Price
