Re: Iron Man Conquers Comic-Con
Michael Papagermanos <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:49:33 -0500
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An kai exo ypopsi mou apo IRON MAN comic book ktlp, kathe fora pou to
skefto mou, thimame kai tous "Black Sabbath": "I am Iron Man...."!
Elpizo na einai kalo.
Exete dei to clip gia to MONSTER MOVIE pou 8a vgei ton Febrouario (apo
ton J.J. Abrams tou "Lost" kai "Alias")?
Dimitris Tsallas wrote:
>Από το SCIFI Weekly:
>(το κλιπάκι μπορείτε να το δείτε εδώ:
>http://filmz.ru/traler/ironman_comicconfootage.flv )
>
>Jon Favreau, director of the upcoming comic-inspired Iron Man, told SCI
>FI Wire that he was nervous about bringing the first footage from his
>movie to fans at Comic-Con International in San Diego, but was pleased
>by the rapturous response it received on July 26 and 28. The footage,
>featuring a battle between Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), clad in the
>"Mark 1" iron battlesuit, and guerrilla soldiers, was the first glimpse
>ever of Favreau's movie-in-progress. The footage also revealed the first
>glimpses of the red-and-gold "Mark III" Iron Man suit and a final
>visual-effects shot of Iron Man in even more sophisticated armor, flying
>with F-22 fighter jets.
>
>"With this title, Iron Man, most people out there in the world, when you
>say 'Iron Man,' they think it's a Black Sabbath song," Favreau said in
>an interview at Comic-Con on July 28. "This is the only place where you
>could come, and everybody---all 6,500 people in there---know who the guy is,
>what he stands for, what the movie better do or not do, and what the
>pitfalls are from having seen other books adapted in ways that they
>didn't think was respectable or geared towards them."
>
>Favreau said he knew that he'd have to come to Comic-Con sooner or later
>to run the movie by the fans. "I was like, 'Let's just show them what
>we've got,' and, fortunately, because of the Stan Winston suits that
>were built, we had a lot of practical, in-camera footage filmed, and
>[Industrial Light & Magic] scrambled to get those last five shots
>together so that we could show him flying and the high-tech version of
>the suit, too," he said. "We liked it, it played well, and we said,
>'Let's see if this dog hunts.' And we put it out there, and it worked
>out well."
>
>Favreau (Zathura) brought along his stars, Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth
>Paltrow and Terrence Howard to Comic-Con, where he showed the footage on
>Thursday and on Saturday, one of the highlights of the convention,
>generating a lot of positive buzz among fans and convention participants.
>
>"Ultimately you have to show them something that was worth waiting in
>line for and traveling all the way to Comic-Con and wearing a vinyl suit
>and putting on face paint," he said. "You know what I mean? ... It's not
>an effortless endeavor to make it into Hall H at Comic-Con. ... And
>they're putting up with a lot. They're waiting in a lot of lines, and
>... there's a lot of people there who are expecting more than they're
>going to see, so it was nice to give them more than they expected."
>
>
>
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