IM2 Talk

EW interviewed Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau about their brainstorming ideas for the now highly antisapated Shellhead sequel.

Here are both sides of the discussion.

When you were brainstorming with Jon Favreau, what were the elements that
you wanted to bring to the next Iron Man movie?

There’s this idea of Terrence [Howard] putting on a suit and coming back as
War Machine, who is pretty iconic in the Iron Man and Marvel universe. Just
seeing where it can all go, but grounding it in a very modern mythology. I see
it as greatest dysfunctional family story ever told…. In The New York Post a
couple days ago, [there was a cartoon] of Iron Man suited up, and he’s telling
the governor even his super-powers can’t get him out of the budget problem. That
was what Jon was hoping for and excited to see the most, the idea that Tony
Stark and Iron Man can become part of the cultural fabric. When we heard posters
were being defaced to promote political or social ideas, he just got such a hoot
out of that.

Rhodey looking at the silver Mark 2 suit was a really good tease and it would kick ass to see him as the fully fledged War Machine.

Will you be involved with the sequel?

We’ve been speaking informally about it, and in concept we would all love
to work together again. But I found out about the announcement last night, so
it’s not something that — we would definitely love to collaborate more with the
sequel. There’s no formal arrangement yet, but in theory we would all love to
see it happen…. There’s definitely a lot of ideas that we all have now. This
type of movie is based on serialized materials, so it lends itself very easily
to [many different sequel possibilities]. There’s definitely a level of
enthusiasm from myself and the cast to tell more stories.

Well, they did setup Stark’s alcoholism, which despite going through the events of the first film, could come back to the forefront. But there still possiblites, the build up for The Mandarin or the coming of The Armor Wars.