Directors do more than 'guide' the process, they're there to deliver their vision. I'm sick of this fanboy preciousness that if a film maker strays from the source material they're doing a disservice to the fans. A director can put whatever their stamp is on whatever film they choose, in exactly the same way that a writer/artist combo on a comic will change the direction and vision of a great book.
I hate the attitude that some people have with these films that a director is basically a 'caretaker' who's job is to just translate the comic panel for panel to the screen.
That's not what Shane Black did, not by a long shot. Yet it's probably one of the best marvel films to date. Why? Because it does great, deep and evolutionary things for a character, has memorable and edge of your seat action and it works and stands alone as a great film OUTSIDE of it's superhero genre.
And of all the great things it did, not a single part of that was at expense for anything else.
I think Phase 2 is going to be great if they keep trying to stick to each individual film as it's own niche and formula.
And you know what, all the fear people have about Robert Downey Jr maybe eventually leaving the role... If we get movies THAT well written and the character explored to THAT extent, then everything will be fine... The character will outlive the actor.
Our only concern should be that we need the other characters to be as firmly cemented in the general publics minds as well.
About how long is it? And does rhodey fight in his armor?
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