Iron Man(film)
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Iron Man
Domestic poster
Directed by
Jon Favreau
Produced by
Avi Arad
Kevin Feige
Written by
Screenplay:
John August
(uncredited)
Mark Fergus
Hawk Ostby
Arthur Marcum
Matthew Hollaway
Comic Book:
Stan Lee
Larry Lieber
Don Heck
Jack Kirby
Starring
Robert Downey Jr.
Terrence Howard
Gwyneth Paltrow
Jeff Bridges
Music by
Ramin Djawadi
Cinematography
Matthew Libatique
Distributed by
United States: Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)
Global:
April 30, 2008
Australia:
May 1, 2008
United States:
United Kingdom:
May 2, 2008
Running time
126 min[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$135 million[2]
Official website
Allmovie profile
IMDb profile
Iron Man is an upcoming 2008 superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Iron Man. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film is about Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), a billionaire industrialist who is captured by terrorists in Afghanistan. Ordered to build a missile for them, Stark uses his resources instead to build a suit of power armor and make his escape. Returning to America, Stark improves his armor and becomes the technologically advanced superhero Iron Man. Gwyneth Paltrow plays his secretary and love interest Virginia Potts, Terrence Howard plays jet pilot James Rhodes, and Jeff Bridges plays the villainous Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger.
The film began development at Universal Studios in 1990 as a low-budget production. 20th Century Fox earned the rights in 1996, before handing them over to New Line Cinema four years later. Marvel Studios reacquired the rights in 2006, and put the project in production as their first self-financed film. Favreau signed on as director, aiming for a realistic feel, and chose to shoot the film primarily in California, rejecting the East Coast setting of the comics so as to differentiate the film from numerous superhero movies set in New York City-esque environments. Stan Winston Studios built the armor seen in the film, which is modeled after Adi Granov’s comic book art of the character; Granov himself started working on the film after recognizing his work on the director’s MySpace page.
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