Marvel Universe, an obvious reason to blog
Sooo I was sitting down to do my account management homework and be a diligent student when I got distracted by a link to an article about the Iron Man movie which is pre-production right now. So far I'm pretty stoked about what I've heard as far as who's doing what.
Jon Favreau as director. Money baby, money! I think Favreau could really take Tony Stark to a new level. Favreau sticks to his stories and to his gut, I don't think he'd allow the movie to become to hollywooded-out which seems to be a favored trend in comic movies today.
Gough and Millar for screenplay. I hope that this is the case, Ive also read that it's been rewritten since they had a stab at it. I think they did an awesome job with Smallville and could do well with Iron Man, with 2 important caveates. One being that they can escape the writing constraints of television, making a WB show that can stretch on the lore is a little different that going with a full blown film about a mature character. Also they need to die down with the cheeky dialogue. I mean sometimes Smallville gets a little hard to swallow....but they've been doing better in later seasons. Plus wasn't it rumoured that they were working on a possible Aquaman adapt?
Now just who can play our beloved millionaire turned armored superhero?? Some friends and I were having this discussion a few weeks ago and I really was stumped! They mentioned Wentworth Miller, of Prison Break fame, and I think that could work but I'm not completely sold. I guess I'd have to see him bulk up a bit. However his counterpart in the show, Dominic Purcell could also be a viable option now that I think about it. I've heard people suggest Clive Owen, who I definitely think it smart bad ass that could pull off the driven troubled millionaire part well, but I just don't think Owen is the superhero role type of guy. I mean he went into the comic-esque realm with Sin City, but that was a whole other ballgame (but damn if he didn't rock Dwight on that one....wish they had decided to include more of him from the other books not used for the s.play). Some have suggested Jim Caviesel but I just can't get myself behind him...and not just because he was Jesus either. He just doesn't seem to have much presence on screen (I mean it's hard not to when you're playing Jesus but other than that he's kindve forgettable...like Frequency...I just wasn't enthralled with his performance.) I've also heard Oded Fehr as a possibility. Now first off I didn't have a clue who this guy was....but once I saw his mug on IMDB I was like holy crap Tony Stark...esp Civil War look..which is the most prominent in my mind at the moment. He also did some work with the new Justic League cartoon, which gives him a little comic cred in my book. But not having seen him in anything I'm not sold just yet.
You know what I am pretty rocked about in my mind though....the thought of Hugo Weaving playing Prince Namor! Now this hasn't been mentioned at all...hell who knows if they'd ever even make a Namor movie...maybe in an Avengers story though...
Oh man...make an Avengers movie...maybe that's just because I've been watching the new animated ones....and reading Civil War. But if i'm thinking it obviously other people are. I'd even suggest making a 1602 film adapt if I wasn't absolutely terrified they screw it up royally and bring me to tears. Not that it takes much to sell me on comic/superhero films just the 30 second clip of the Aquaman movie on Entourage got me on a whole Aquaman movie soapbox.
