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http://www.craveonline.com/articles/filmtv/04651401/justin_theroux_on_the_iron_man_2_script.html
Justin Theroux may be the hottest writer in Hollywood now. His first script, Tropic Thunder, is this summer's most controversial comedy. Now he's landed the gig writing Iron Man 2. Not a bad career, considering he spent most of his Hollywood life acting. Crave Online: How did you get Iron Man 2? Justin Theroux: I don't know. I think obviously Robert was instrumental. He was also a champion of mine. He put in a good word I'm sure.
Crave Online: Have you started it?
Justin Theroux: Yeah. Not really. Everything's sort of on the table. We're still talking about it and that's sort of where that's out.
Crave Online: Do you have any ideas you can tell us?
Justin Theroux: Well, if you have any ideas, that's the stage we're in. Got any bright ideas, send them our way.
Crave Online: Is it intimidating?
Justin Theroux: Yeah, no pressure, dude. Yeah, of course. Hugely intimidating. But also enormously exciting because it's sort of like, you're writing for Robert Downey Jr. so at the end of the day, that's an enormous amount of fun.
Crave Online: How exciting is it to think of all you can do with Iron Man?
Justin Theroux: That's almost the problem. It's kind of like opening an internet page and being like, "Where should I go?" You can go anywhere, do whatever you want. So I've just stopped marinating in all the Iron Man lore that I didn't know and firing up the chainsaw and ready to attack it.
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Crave Online: This was so long in development, how do you approach the hard deadline of Iron Man 2?
Justin Theroux: I don't know. I think it's hard work. Again, we're just sort of starting that up so I don't know how that's going to, I don't know. We're approaching it from all sides really. Right now, it's literally one of those moments where just everything's on the table and nothing's taken off it. Everyone's looking at it.
Justin Theroux may be the hottest writer in Hollywood now. His first script, Tropic Thunder, is this summer's most controversial comedy. Now he's landed the gig writing Iron Man 2. Not a bad career, considering he spent most of his Hollywood life acting. Crave Online: How did you get Iron Man 2? Justin Theroux: I don't know. I think obviously Robert was instrumental. He was also a champion of mine. He put in a good word I'm sure.
Crave Online: Have you started it?
Justin Theroux: Yeah. Not really. Everything's sort of on the table. We're still talking about it and that's sort of where that's out.
Crave Online: Do you have any ideas you can tell us?
Justin Theroux: Well, if you have any ideas, that's the stage we're in. Got any bright ideas, send them our way.
Crave Online: Is it intimidating?
Justin Theroux: Yeah, no pressure, dude. Yeah, of course. Hugely intimidating. But also enormously exciting because it's sort of like, you're writing for Robert Downey Jr. so at the end of the day, that's an enormous amount of fun.
Crave Online: How exciting is it to think of all you can do with Iron Man?
Justin Theroux: That's almost the problem. It's kind of like opening an internet page and being like, "Where should I go?" You can go anywhere, do whatever you want. So I've just stopped marinating in all the Iron Man lore that I didn't know and firing up the chainsaw and ready to attack it.
...
Crave Online: This was so long in development, how do you approach the hard deadline of Iron Man 2?
Justin Theroux: I don't know. I think it's hard work. Again, we're just sort of starting that up so I don't know how that's going to, I don't know. We're approaching it from all sides really. Right now, it's literally one of those moments where just everything's on the table and nothing's taken off it. Everyone's looking at it.