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Downey Q&A w/ MTV

Mar 16, 2008

Robert Downey Jr sat down with MTV and talked about his role on Iron Man, how it has been critically received and how they responded to criticism from a scene that was part of a trailer aired durin...

Q&A with Jon Favreau

Feb 23, 2008

After his appearance at WonderCon showing a trailer and staging a panel, Jon Favreu was part of a roundtable interview with members of the press. Favreau addressed questions about the direction ...

Super Bowl Trailer

Feb 2, 2008

A trailer for the movie was shown during the Super Bowl. It was well received by many except for a scene between Iron Man and a tank which people felt looked too CGI and lacked a human element. ...

Downey's training regimen

Apr 25, 2007

USA Today reported on the strict training regimen that Robert Downey Jr was going through in preparation for his role as Iron Man. At 42, Downey lifted weights five days a week and practiced mar...

Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man

Sep 28, 2006

Marvel Comics announced on their website that Robert Downey Jr would take on the role of Iron Man. Kevin Feige, President of Production at Marvel Studios said "Robert Downey Jr. is one of the ...

Iron Man to be a newcomer

May 3, 2006

In an interview with MTV, director John Favreau stated his interest to cast a newcomer as Iron Man following the models of Tobey Maguire being cast as Spider-Man and Brandon Routh as Superman. F...

Daily Variety extensive report

Jul 12, 1999

Daily Variety publishes an extensive report on the status of various Marvel movies in Michael Flemming's "Dish" column. While covering the re-emergence of Marvel characters on film following Mar...

Response to Cinescape review

May 15, 1999

Corona Coming Attractions responded to the Cinescape review by posting their own review which defended Vintar's work. They also confirmed that Vintar's script was thrown out because 20th Century...

Review of Vintar's script

May 9, 1999

Cinescape follows up on recent reports that the previous IRON MAN script was scrapped and that Jeffrey Caine was hired to write a new one. Cinescape posted a review of Vintar's script which co...

New script

May 5, 1999

Corona Coming Attractions reports that a new script is in the works for IRON MAN cited from an internal memo. The script is being developed by Jeffrey Caine who wrote GOLDENEYE.

Cruise deal collapses

Jan 23, 1999

Cinescape reports that the deal between Marvel and Tom Cruise for an IRON MAN movie failed to progress. It is speculated that Marvel's bankruptcy issues were the cause for troubled negotiations.

Tom Cruise for Iron Man

Sep 5, 1998

Tom Cruise expresses interest in producing as well as starring in the film debut of Iron Man

Lee on Cruise deal

Jul 21, 1998

The Comics Continuum reported that, in an interview, Stan Lee stated that Marvel had a meeting with Tom Cruise's partner, Paula Wagner and that Cruise was interested. However nothing could progres...

Tom Cruise rumor

Jun 1, 1998

Daily Variety reports that Tom Cruise is interested in producing and starring in IRON MAN.

Iron Man on hold

Feb 17, 1998

In a Comics Continuum article on the VENOM movie, it is mentioned that IRON MAN is on hold until Marvel takes care of its legal troubles

Jeff Vintar completes script

Dec 29, 1997

A Comic's Continuum article states that Jeff Vintar has completed an Iron Man script.

Stan Lee on script

Oct 1997

Stan Lee mentions in Stan's Soapbox that he wrote the story for the Iron Man movie "together with Jeff Vintar who's also doing the screenplay".

Stan Lee mentions film on column

Aug 31, 1997

Iron Man is one of 12 Marvel films listed by Stan Lee in the Stan's Soapbox column appearing in all Marvel comics dated September, 1997. Stan Lee mentions there are 5 more projects in development t...

Nicholaus Cage interested in Iron Man

Jan 2, 1997

In January 1997, actor Nicolas Cage expressed interest in being cast for the lead role of the Iron Man film.

Fox purchases Iron Man

Feb 17, 1996

In February 1996, 20th Century Fox acquired the rights from Universal for Iron Man.

Universal purchases Iron Man

Apr 13, 1990

In April 1990, Universal Studios bought the rights to develop Iron Man for the big screen Stuart Gordon, the director of Re-Animator, was attached to direct.

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