Iron Man 2 beyond "standard" superhero films
Iron Man 2 beyond "standard" superhero films
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Thursday, 21, Jan 2010 03:00
By Lewis Bazley.
The second film in the Iron Man franchise will take a different approach to the comic book world, director Jon Favreau has claimed.
The Marvel Studios sequel is released in May with Golden Globe winner Robert Downey Jr returning as the title character and his alter ego Tony Stark.
The first film, a massive box office success after its 2008 release, ended with Stark revealing to the world that he was the man in the iron suit and Favreau has explained the series has the chance to provide an entirely fresh comic book movie.
"The superhero genre has been picked over pretty thoroughly with all the different titles, sequels, reboots," he told the Los Angeles Times.
"It's tough to keep it fresh and not do something that is derivative of something someone else has done. By taking a left turn at the end of the first film and making him a public figure, it opened it up to a whole lot of new possibilities. It goes beyond your standard secret identity/caped crusader model."
Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow are to reprise their roles as Stark and his assistant Pepper Potts in Iron Man 2 while Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson join the cast as future nemeses of Iron Man.
Favreau's confidence in the franchise was confirmed in his LA Times interview as he contrasted the plotline of Iron Man 2 with the genre standard of a superhero struggling with his own personality and his secret identity.
"Those twin stories deviate more and more as the hero becomes more established," he added.
"The hero starts to leave behind the secret identity. All of these franchises struggle to find their different angle on all of that as they move forward but the thing is it's all fairly limited and limiting. There are only so many stories there. We're flying in a different direction."