Director John Favreau startled fans of the San Diego Comic Con today with an exclusive first look at Iron Man 2. Without an official release, we’ll have to rely on a transcript provided by ComicBookResources.com:
Spoilers abound, so stop here if you’d like to remain in the dark regarding cast members and revelations of plot details.
War Machine concept drawing by Iron Man movie artist Phil Saunders
The 5-minute long clip starts off with Tony Stark in the Iron Man armor, sans helmet, eating a donut. The camera pans back and reveals that he’s sitting in the “Randy’s Donuts” sign. Samuel L. Jackson then walks into the scene as Nick Fury, shouting at Tony Stark to come down from the donut.
The two then have donuts and coffee together. Fury asks Stark to join a superhero group, Stark insists that he is a loner.
The scene then switches to CNN coverage of a trial. Gary Shandling portrays Senator Stern, and is grilling Stark about owning a high-tech weapon. Shandling demands Stark turn the Iron Man armor over to the U.S. government. Stark insists he won’t, then utters his famous, “I am Iron Man.” He says that turning the armor in would be akin to prostitution.
Don Cheadle makes his first appearance as James Rhodes in this scene. Stark and Rhodes have a cool exchange, and then Rhodes sits down at the trial. Tony Stark tells Senator Stern that he’s “welcome” for protecting the U.S. He then turns to the reporters and shouts, “I’ve successfully privatized world peace!”
Senator Stern, not happy with Stark’s antics, drops two “fuck you!”s on Stark, both bleeped out.
UPDATED with details from Slashfilm:
A montage begins with shots of newspapers and magazines with Stark on the cover. Voice over in a Russian accent “You come from a family of thieves and butchers…” Shots of Rourke putting together his whiplash suit. A bunch of random shots, including a bunch of girls dancing in front of a display with the American flag, and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, kicking ass. Rourke arrives at the race car track in his Whiplash suit. He activates it and the wires light up with electricity as he whips them around. Stark is bloody, in his racing suit, down on the concrete. We see a close-up of Rourke laughing.
Cut to: Iron Man flying through the night air, dodging missiles which explode behind him, as he blasts towards Earth.
The Iron Man 2 logo appears on the screen, along with the music.
Then we get an extra sequence. Rhodey in a air plane hanger. Justin Hammer walks over and asks what this is about and Rhodey says it’s classified. Hammer looks down at a suit, which appears to be Stark’s old Mark II armor. “Is that what I think it is?” “What can you do for us?” Hammer shows Rhodey a bunch of different weaponry. Rhodey tells Hammer “I think i’ll take it.” “Which one?” “All of it.”
Cut to: A shot of War Machine blasting off his guns.
War Machine tackles Iron Man
Ask any Iron Man comic book fan what they would like to see in a sequel and you will find War Machine in that list.
For my full article on who War Machine is, follow this link.
The addition of Don Cheadle as Jim Rhodes working with Justin Hammer as War Machine against Robert Downey Jr’s suave and collected Tony Stark should raise the bar but… how much is going on in this movie?? The only negative I can mention attached to this news is that I fear the sequel will try and cram too much into the film and end up a convoluted mess.
Or it might not, making it the sequel that we all want it to be.
Director John Favreau really hit it out of the park with his superhero debut Iron Man and it is looking like he will be repeating that success next Summer when Iron Man 2 arrives. Additionally, Favreau had little to say about the Avengers project waiting at the end of the next Iron Man 2 – Thor -Captain America movies but did say that the design work on Thor is exceptional.
Like many of you reading this, I dearly wish that I was in San Diego today.
UPDATED:
Here is a still image of War Machine from the 5 minute preview:
