Get into the "Heart" of Iron Man

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With names like Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jeff Bridges, can Jon Favreau's
orgin story, pull the "strings' of moviegoers?

In a brilliant stroke of inspired casting that got the fans talking, Favreau found all of the required qualities of Stark in Robert Downey Jr., the titular hero, a billionaire inventor kidnapped for his brilliance and forced to conceive a nefarious weapon. Wounded and driven to escape his captors, Stark builds an iron suit which will evolve as he comes to use it to fight evil. Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Leslie Bibb, Nazanin Boniadi, Shaun Toub, Terrence Howard and Bill Smitrovich co-star in roles true to the source material such as Virginia "Pepper" Potts, Obadiah Stane, et al.

Rather than jump into the midst of the action, Favreau has opted to tell an origin story, a Joseph Campbell-like journey focusing on Stark's rise as Iron Man. Audiences will witness the birth of the Mark 1 suit and the now-familiar yellow 'n red guise. How Favreau intends to pull it all off is guarded in secrecy on a level unlike anything this writer has ever seen. ComingSoon.net/Superhero Hype! was smacked with the heavy hand of confidentiality while visiting the set of Iron Man earlier this summer, however, we can say now the sights, particularly the sets located within a massive hangar once utilized by Howard Hughes himself (a figure who served as inspiration for the Stark character) were cavernous and magnificent.

Head on over to SHH for the entire article

Lou Singer
8/29/2007
Source: SuperHeroHype.com

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