Iron Man Trailer
Oh. My. God.
The Iron Man trailer is up...and it looks good.
Always thought Robert Downey Jr. would make a great Tony Stark -- but I'm even more convinced of it now. And if this goes over as big as it should, it could have legs.
Here's a great interview with director Jon Favreau, from Comic Book Resources that I posted at another blog some time ago.
He makes a good point about Iron Man being hard to define. You know what Captain America stands for. You know why Spider-Man fights. Superman and Batman are both pretty easy to peg in a sentence or two. But Tony Stark became Iron Man because he was a millionaire munitions designer who was kidnapped by the enemy (Vietnamese Communists in his 60s debut, radical Islamists in Afghanistan for the film) and forced to make the ultimate weapon - the Iron Man armor. After he escaped you have to ask yourself...what does he stand for, and why does he fight?
Favreau's take:
"He's a bit paradigmatic for what America is. He represents technology, inspiration, a certain adolescent enthusiasm, but there's also a bit of immaturity and there's a clumsiness about him at times, too, where he might be too powerful for his own good. I think a lot of people view us [Americans] that way. So, not only are we telling a story to ourselves, but also a story we're telling to the rest of the world on how we see ourselves. So, to me, Iron Man is representative of America in a lot of ways and I welcome that."