Jon Favreau spilled a few enjoyable "Iron Man" tidbits at last week’s Comic Con, but he had even more stuff to say when he sat down with one of the AICN insiders.
From AICN: "QUINT: Are you going to go for a star for the role of Tony Stark?
JON FAVREAU: I think we’re going for… We just hired the casting director last week. We sort of had it narrowed down. We’re probably not going to go with a guy who’s bigger than the title. Somebody that would overpower the title.
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QUINT: So, which Stark are you portraying? The mean drunk or the desperately ill or…
JON FAVREAU: I think it starts off as the oblivious arms manufacturer who gets a huge dose of reality when he’s taken into captivity and he’s a hostage in Afghanistan. I think he starts to understand the ramifications of the way he’s been living his wife when he’s exposed to that degree of reality and try to play that as real as possible. And, of course, we’re going to really explore the injury and how that affects you, not knowin’… Well, it depends how far you go with it."
Click here for a whole lot more, including a hopeful hint about Favreau’s pet project, "John Carter of Mars."
