Favreau Helming Iron Man
Jon Favreau is set to direct Marvel Studios' live-action movie Iron Man, which will now be distributed by Paramount, part of a slate of directing and writing deals Marvel announced, Variety reported. Marvel is developing the titles, which it will independently finance out of a $525 million fund from Merrill Lynch.
All of the films will be distributed by Paramount under an existing service agreement, except for The Incredible Hulk, a sequel to 2003's Hulk.
Iron Man is Marvel's top priority and will be written by Arthur Marcum and Matt Hollaway (Convoy).
The second Hulk movie, meanwhile, is proceeding despite the first film's lackluster performance at the box office. Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand) will pen the script. Universal, which handled the first Hulk, would distribute the follow-up.
David Self (Road to Perdition) has been tapped to pen the long-awaited feature version of Captain America.
Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) will direct and co-write with Joe Cornish the feature film Ant Man, with a comedic twist.
Andrew Marlowe (Hollow Man) will write the script for Nick Fury, based on Marvel's military super spy.
Mark Protosevich (Poseidon) will pen Thor.
Marvel hasn't committed to put any of the films into production yet, though it's hoping to release the first one by 2008.
Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.
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Well, I think the market will officially be saturated now. Expect half of these to be quickly completed (and shoddy) once the Execs figure out that Americans are getting tired of super hero flicks.
Next up? How 'bout the Silver Surfer or She-Hulk?
I think Silver Surfer may have been completed already, but I did hear soemthing about it.
I vote for Spiderham, or Live action Thundercats. Snarff..
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