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directed by Jon Favreau; written by Justin Theroux; stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia “Pepper” Potts, Don Cheadle as James “Rhodey” Rhodes (recast from Iron Man), Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff, Sam Rockwell as Justin Hammer, and Mickey Rourke as Ivan Vanko; Iron Man battles rival industrialist Justin Hammer and super-villain Ivan Vanko; Rhodey becames War Machine (though not named that explicitly); introduces Black Widow and S.H.I.E.L.D.; preposterous plot, involving more stolen Iron Man technology, Tony Stark’s father hiding a conveniently useful message in a diorama of the 1974 Stark Expo, and Tony Stark creating a makeshift particle accelerator to synthesize a new element; at the end, Tony Stark talks to Nick Fury, during which a screen shows destruction on a college campus (from The Incredible Hulk), while another shows a crater in a desert (Thor’s hammer, also touched upon after this film’s end credits) and another shows a world map with seven locations (two of which correspond to events in Captain America: The First Avenger and one to Black Panther); after the end credits, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Coulson reports on a large hammer in a crater in a New Mexico desert (leading into Thor); 125 minutes; released 7 May 2010 (but premiered in L.A. on 26 Apr 2010)
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More to come. type: movie Prologue Iron Man (movie) director: Jon Favreau writer: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matt Halloway, and John August note: Tony Stark becomes Iron Man stars: Robert Downey Jr. as… [more]
