What's Up with Iron Man II? Just Ask Jon Favreau
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Monday, September 29, 2008
When we met up with Jon Favreau for lunch last week at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood we were supposed to be talking about the Sept. 30 release of Iron Man on DVD. Instead, the conversation quickly turned to Iron Man II and what the actor-turned director has in store for the new film. Here is what he had to say... 
Hollywood.com: How is the writing coming along?
Jon Favreau: The writing is really coming along quite well. We have Justin Theroux working on it who [Robert] Downey knows. He echoes Downey's tastes a lot. They worked together on Tropic Thunder…So we're breaking story and pages are coming out, but it's really more of a conversation than actual writing right now…We're making our own story. Although, I'll tell you which ones we're looking at very closely, not so much for story, but for tone and the way it's been executed – it's the Matt Fraction stuff.
HW: The two major aspects of the Iron Man mythology are the 'Demon in the Bottle' story and being replaced at some point by Rhodey. Do you have to look at that?
JF: There's always the sense of like, 'Let’s save something for another movie.' But I think there's a way to wade into it and if it's done right you're not going to have to turn on a dime.
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