Iron Man Iron Man in its almost 19 year development

[echostation]

With the excellence that is Favreau's film..... a little look back to the past... back in 1990 Stuart Gordon was gonna direct (thank god it didn't happen) and then came the following written Iron Man scrapped scripts from writers such as the following:

Jeff Vintar (film story by Stan Lee)

Jeffrey Caine (GoldenEye) - with a pitch to Quentin Tarantino to direct in 1999

Tim McCanlies + Terry Rossio

Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and David Hayter

These are all very high profile writers... yet I've only seen a few script reviews of the Gough + Millar crappy draft of Howard Stark as the main bad guy...

can anyone tell me where I might be able to find other script reviews for the Jeff Vintar and Stan Lee draft, the Caine draft and McCanlies draft (i remember Moriarity of AICN reviewing this ages ago but can't find the webpage at all...)?????

I'm just very interested in reading some of the earlier decade old pitches and scripts made and how they were reviewed and came across... any help would be fantastic!

 

[bullets]

It's kind of funny how such a delay actually helped this movie. I think Iron Man came out at exactly the right time.

 

[chamber-music]

Also Tom Cruise was attached for the role of Tony Stark Iron Man for quite a while. I remember him discussing it with Jonothan Ross around the time Last Samurai came out.

 

[Killer Wolf]

Wow. Stuart Gordon would've done some interesting things had it been made way back then. I'm sure he would've thrown in some Re-Animator alumni like Jeffrey Combs for cameos.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Wow. Stuart Gordon would've done some interesting things had it been made way back then. I'm sure he would've thrown in some Re-Animator alumni like Jeffrey Combs for cameos.

I remember an interview with him on some magazine; Neal Adams had done some design for the armor, the suitcase where Stark keeps the suit would have become part of it.
Btw, does anybody have a copy of the Millar, Gough and Hayter script?
I think the final movie keeps much of the same storyline from that script with Stane instead of Stark sr.

 

[TheVileOne]

Thing is with Tom Cruise, it would've become his movie. Or he would basically have to have a huge controlling interest in it.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

can anyone tell me where I might be able to find other script reviews for the Jeff Vintar and Stan Lee draft, the Caine draft and McCanlies draft (i remember Moriarity of AICN reviewing this ages ago but can't find the webpage at all...)?????

It was Harry, not Moriarty.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/8577

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Btw, does anybody have a copy of the Millar, Gough and Hayter script?
I think the final movie keeps much of the same storyline from that script with Stane instead of Stark sr.

It's here

 

[JerseyJoker]

Iron Man, X-Men, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, lots of superhero's (mostly Marvel) into movies, take a LONG time.

But in the long run, thank god Marvel really didnt do most of its characters till recently, cause the technology of today stomps over everything of the past, and is really the only way to believe these characters can work.

 

[Raiden]

Thing is with Tom Cruise, it would've become his movie. Or he would basically have to have a huge controlling interest in it.

Yeah, like the Mission: Impossible franchise, Cruise would get absolute control and it won't be Tony Stark on the screen, but Tom "Jumpin' Couch" Cruise instead. I think we dodged a bullet there.

 

[LadyLane]

Yeah, like the Mission: Impossible franchise, Cruise would get absolute control and it won't be Tony Stark on the screen, but Tom "Jumpin' Couch" Cruise instead. I think we dodged a bullet there.

lol, so true. I'll take the recovered drugee over the crazy man any day!

 

[JerseyJoker]

Tom Cruise no matter what he does in his personal life, is still a fantastic actor, so i could care less if he jumps on couches, he still one of the actors around today.

 

[Gotham]

I wouldn't have been a fan of Tom Cruise taking the lead, but then again, he could have proved us all wrong. He's a fantastic actor.

 

[SFII]

Tom Cruise is a great actor, despite all his craziness.
but it's nice to see Robert Downey Jr, who's also a great actor, make a comeback with his career with this blockbuster hit, finally. he was great in Zodiac.
maybe Tom Cruise can be in some other superhero movie. perhaps Dr. Strange or something.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

I think Depp would make a great Dr. Strange.

 

[Clobberin' Time]

Sorry lads and lasses, Tom Cruise is not even a good actor let alone a great one. thank the lord he didn't play Tony Stark!

 

[echostation]

Antonello! thanks a ton for the link to AICN review!!!

now on to hunt for Jeff Vintar's draft with story by STAN LEE

 

[echostation]

wow the Tim McCanlies' draft of the script has TONS more action than the Iron Man film... i wonder why this script was jettisoned given it sounded almost pitch perfect if not better than the already excellent film we got