Man of Iron

With only weeks until the arrival of Sam Raimi’s Spiderman 3, followed later in the summer by Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - which surely can’t suck as badly as the first film, the flood of comic book movies continues from the studios’ gates.

Currently in production is Iron Man, directed by Jon Favreau and starring Robert Downey Jr as industrialist Tony Stark along with Jeff Bridges and Terrace Howard. Favreau may have been responsible for Elf but he also made Made, which is an absolute gem of a movie. Two of the writers, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, worked on Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, and are now co-writing the script for John Carter of Mars, adapted from the novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which can't be a bad thing.


Not in the cinemas until next year, Paramount Pictures has released the first image of the Iron Man armour to get the expectant fanboys hot and bothered. Created for the movie by Stan Winston Studios, this is obviously the clunky, grey Iron Man Mark I suit and not the later, more familiar, red and gold version.


I betcha Lucy is already camped outside her local multiplex, waiting in eager anticipation.