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[Dan]

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/569/569098p1.html

November 29, 2004 - IGN FilmForce has learned who will direct Iron Man's big-screen debut: Nick Cassavetes. The New Line Cinema project based on the Marvel Comics character is on track for a summer 2006 release.

Cassavetes has helmed two other New Line releases: this past summer's sleeper hit The Notebook and 2002's John Q. He's currently filming Alpha Dog for New Line; that film stars Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Justin Timberlake, Emile Hirsch and Dominique Swain. Cassavetes also scripted Blow for the studio. His other directing credits include Miramax's She's So Lovely and Unhook the Stars.

Like his famous parents John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, 45-year-old Nick is also an actor. He's appeared in Face/Off, The Astronaut's Wife, Mask and Delta Force 3.

Iron Man was scripted by David Hayter and will be produced by Angry Films.

Interesting choice considering he doesn't appear to have really handled an action film before, and this'll be a big tentpole pic. I haven't seen any of his films though, so I can't really comment.

 

[Particle Physicist]

ghostface should have a cameo.

i havent seen The Notebook but i really dug John Q .

 

[kumanoki]

Sadly, I can feel the suck coming. I don't even have to put my ear down to the tracks.

 

[Jim Bowie]

John Q = mediocre
The Notebook = trash
Iron Man movie =/= lookin' good

 

[FortNinety]

Interesting choice.... I'm just happy that Hayter is doing the screenplay and it's finally happening. I'm a major Iron Man fanboy.

 

[Willco]

David Hayter is a really shitty writer. He hasn't penned one good screenplay ever.

 

[ElyrionX]

Isn't David Hayter the dude behind Snake's voice in the MGS series?

 

[sefskillz]

NICHOLAS IS RUINING HIS FATHER'S LEGACY. GIVE UP.

 

[firex]

are they going to answer the question of whether Iron Man wears underwear under his iron suit or not?

"I still say he's naked under that thing!"

 

[FortNinety]

David Hayter is a really shitty writer. He hasn't penned one good screenplay ever.

Hey I know this film will suck. Hence forth...

Isn't David Hayter the dude behind Snake's voice in the MGS series?

That's why I care.

Plus didn't he work on X-Men and X2? I thought they were okay storywise/dialogue-wise. Though the Singer and the actors involved certainly helped a lot.

 

[evil ways]

If they do it as a serious movie, and focus on Tony Stark being an arrogant, rich drunk, instead of going with an heroic, comic book movie cliche of him rescuing people, or saving kids from being hit by cars then it will be just fine.

No super villains either, just give him a rival, corrupt military corporation that wants to either buy out or destroy Stark Industries, and tons of shit to blow up like tanks, choppers, and maybe even mech suits.

 

[Willco]

Hey I know this film will suck. Hence forth...



That's why I care.

Plus didn't he work on X-Men and X2? I thought they were okay storywise/dialogue-wise. Though the Singer and the actors involved certainly helped a lot.

He had absolutely nothing to do with X2 and is only credited on the original X-Men because there were about 1,000 writers and FOX wanted to credit one. His impact on X-Men is minimal, at best.

He also wrote the first screenplay of Ang Lee's Hulk, which was so bad that Ang Lee was forced to rewrite the damn script in the middle of production to salvage whatever he could.

 

[ManaByte]

David Hayter is a really shitty writer. He hasn't penned one screenplay ever.

Fixed.

He just transcribes what goes on while filming.

He didn't write X-Men. X-Men was written by four writers and Hayter just sat on the set and transcribed the action so he could get a writing credit in the US.

Somewhere I have a UK pre-release poster for X-Men and Hayter isn't even credited on it. The real writers are.