Unlike many effects-laden movies, in which actors seem like pawns on the green-screen chess board, the Iron Man movies crackle with the interplay between Downey's Tony Stark and his sundry sparring partners.
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Trained at The Second City improv theater troupe in Chicago, Favreau learned how to wing it on film opposite master ad-libber Vince Vaughn in 1996 indie breakthrough, Swingers.įavreau applied those lessons to the superhero genre. "The day Iron Man 2 wrapped is the day we had a locked script," says Favreau. Nobody's ever tried to shoot something out in the desert with that rig yet, so it would be a whole new application for the technology." Keeping Things LooseĪs with its predecessor, Favreau encouraged improvisation in his Shell-Head sequel. We're exploring shooting stereo because if it's going to be 3-D, it's going to be shot in 3-D. For the other side of the coin, we're looking at everything from John Ford to Sergio Leone to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."Ģ-D or not 2-D: "I don't want to convert to 3-D. Influences: "We draw inspiration from films like Close Encounters, Predator and Alien. Here's the director's take.Ĭoncept: "This is a mashup of two different genres, so it's a matter of finding the best of both sci-fi and Westerns." Jon Favreau's next project stars Daniel "James Bond" Craig in a comic book-based story scripted by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof.
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What other actor can you think of right now that would balance out the movie against Robert, who has the most presence of anybody out there right now?" Cowboys and Aliens "I needed an actor you could cut to for a short amount of screen time," Favreau says, "yet he would give his character enough gravity that you know Tony Stark is in trouble. "I had drawings made up of Mickey with the tattoos and the whole deal, and the role started to captivate him."ĭressed in an exoskeleton suit patched together from spare parts and armed with energized whips, Rourke injects a major dose of menace in his role as a bitter genius intent on ruining Tony Stark's legacy. "I had to chase Mickey down because he wasn't sure he wanted to do it but Robert actually badgered Mickey every step of the way during the awards tour for Tropic Thunder," Favreau says. Paramount Pictures wasn't the only reluctant party. I said, 'Exactly, here we go again, trust me.'" They were like, 'Oh, here we go again,' because we'd been through it with Robert on the first one.
I knew him from Sin City and I saw The Wrestler and I said, 'This is the guy.' The studio wasn't pleased with the idea. This time, the director says, "I had to sell the studio on Mickey. Three years ago, Favreau had a tough time convincing the studio to cast Downey as Iron Man's lead. Favreau – who, playing the role of Stark chauffeur Happy Hogan, gets slammed to a boxing-ring floor by Johansson in the sequel – made his most inspired Iron Man 2 casting choice by picking Mickey Rourke to play the heavy: ex-con Russian inventor Ivan Vanko, aka Whiplash.
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