Favreau out of the director's chair for IRON MAN 3....

[MacG]

http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/conf...lm-iron-man-3/

All you had to do was listen to his commentary on IM 2 to realize this was more than likely....

[via negativa]

Re: Favreau out of the director's chair for IRON MAN 3....

All you had to do was listen to his commentary on IM 2 to realize this was more than likely....

What did he say?

[Richmond Weems]

Re: Favreau out of the director's chair for IRON MAN 3....

I'll do it. But only if they ask me nicely.

HH

[MacG]

Re: Favreau out of the director's chair for IRON MAN 3....

What did he say?

Nothing overt or inflammatory, but over the course of the track he expresses his general frustration with Marvel and what he had to deal with from them while filming.

[tuukka]

Re: Favreau out of the director's chair for IRON MAN 3....

From what I've heard, he had to film IM2 without a finished script in place, which he apparently didn't enjoy very much. Probably too many cooks in the kitchen. And of course Marvel was pushing for all the Avengers-stuff, which made the story too crowded and unfocused.

Favreau is already pretty powerful and if A&C does well, which it probably will, he can get almost anything greenlighted.

[SoCalScribe]

Re: Favreau out of the director's chair for IRON MAN 3....

Favreau is already pretty powerful and if A&C does well, which it probably well, he can get almost anything greenlighted.

That Disney development deal ain't a bad start...

[Landis26]

Re: Favreau out of the director's chair for IRON MAN 3....

I'd like to see him do a sequel to Swingers - I'd love to know what happened to those characters.... I bet Sue is doing life for accidently shooting someone when he was in one of his "step up bitch" moods.

[lordmanji]

Re: Favreau out of the director's chair for IRON MAN 3....

From what I've heard, he had to film IM2 without a finished script in place, which he apparently didn't enjoy very much. Probably too many cooks in the kitchen. And of course Marvel was pushing for all the Avengers-stuff, which made the story too crowded and unfocused.

Favreau is already pretty powerful and if A&C does well, which it probably will, he can get almost anything greenlighted.

I thought Favreau was a bad director after Iron Man 2 because the story was so unwieldy, but hearing this to be the reason for him leaving makes me feel more respect for him. Marvel drove their comics into the ground when they stuffed cross-overs so that you couldn't read the titles by themselves anymore and now it appears they're doing the same thing to their movies.

[Knaight]

Re: Favreau out of the director's chair for IRON MAN 3....

I feel like getting up and dancing because I'm so excited about COWBOYS AND ALIENS.

[Furious Anjel]

Re: Favreau out of the director's chair for IRON MAN 3....

From what I've heard, he had to film IM2 without a finished script in place, which he apparently didn't enjoy very much. Probably too many cooks in the kitchen. And of course Marvel was pushing for all the Avengers-stuff, which made the story too crowded and unfocused.

Actually, it sounds a lot like the first film, according to The Dude anyway...

http://io9.com/5417310/jeff-bridges-...-had-no-script

Favreau and Downey's process was hard for Justin Theroux as well

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/...ert-downey-jr/

Great when it works, but when it doesn't, we end up with Iron Man 2.