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    Image of Jonn Jonn
    12/03/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    He really is The Dude

    I know, right?
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    12/03/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    Makes me wonder how many of the CGI animations were also made up on the fly.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    12/03/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    I'm suddenly thirsting for a Caucasian.
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    Image of Tyrunn Tyrunn
    12/03/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    Is it wrong I can't read that without hearing The Dude's voice in my head?
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    FrankenPC promoted this comment Tyrunn was starred Tyrunn was unstarred
    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    12/03/09

    @Tyrunn: That's exactly how I heard it man.
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    12/02/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    also keep in mind the writers they had on the phone every day weren't some hollywood types, but a brain trust of Marvel writers they recruited for this project
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    Image of Dresan Dresan
    12/02/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    I felt it very improvised, too. Specially in the part where Downey Jr. asks help to change the battery thing from his chest.
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    Image of drclaytonforrester drclaytonforrester
    12/03/09

    @Dresan: I thought that was a great scene. Maybe there's something to this improv approach (provided they basically, somehow, keep the reins on all the horses): you just get much more freshness coming out of the screen, dollar for dollar. You gotta admit Iron Man ruled. It was a great movie.
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    Dresan promoted this comment drclaytonforrester was starred drclaytonforrester was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/02/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    It's amazing to me that people are willing to spend $200 million on something without a complete plan (in this case, a screenplay).
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    12/02/09

    @Roklimber: welcome to the machine
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    Image of Aaron Roberts Aaron Roberts
    12/02/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    I just saw "Sherlock Holmes" and during the talk afterwards, Downey said they were 'working' the script every day, that he considers the script simply to be a starting point, and that he and the other actors improvised a lot. As such, I am not surprised to hear he did much the same on Iron Man.
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    Darklighter promoted this comment Aaron Roberts was starred Aaron Roberts was unstarred
    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    12/02/09

    @Aaron Roberts: It's really not uncommon for actors to influence the script once they're on set.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    12/02/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    "They had no script, man. They had an outline."

    That's cool. It's probably why the movie turned out so well. The dialogue and acting did seem very natural.
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    Image of drclaytonforrester drclaytonforrester
    12/03/09

    @twophrasebark: Hear hear. There's something to be said for flying by the seat of your pants; it brings out a lot more energy from the people involved.
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    twophrasebark promoted this comment drclaytonforrester was starred drclaytonforrester was unstarred
    Image of plan99fromouterspace plan99fromouterspace
    12/02/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    I wonder if Terrance Howard's reportedly pissy attitude had anything to do with this.
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    Bootknife-Jackson promoted this comment plan99fromouterspace was starred plan99fromouterspace was unstarred
    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    12/02/09

    @plan99fromouterspace: good point
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/03/09

    @plan99fromouterspace: no. although it probably didn't help. i have heard nothing but negative things about the guy. he is a self centered crazy person
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    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    12/02/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    Iron Man was fantastic; if it was all improv, even more so.

    I hope they do Iron Man 2 the same way.
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    Image of tkanger1 tkanger1
    12/02/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    I'm a little confused. The movie credits FOUR screenwriters for this movie: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, and Matt Holloway. Does Jeff Bridges mean that there was NO script in place or that the "suits" just tossed the script out the door and told the director and actors to run with it? If there was no script, then why are these guys given credits?
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    twophrasebark promoted this comment tkanger1 was starred tkanger1 was unstarred
    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    12/02/09

    @tkanger1: Screenwriting credits often reflect a strange mysterious reality that only makes sense to the Writer's Guild.

    Who knows how they arrived at that if what Bridges says is true...
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    Image of Bryan Young Bryan Young
    12/02/09

    @tkanger1: it says that they had an outline of what they wanted. the lines they had in there were probably just suggested. Thats how I am viewing it anyways.
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    Bootknife-Jackson promoted this comment Bryan Young was starred Bryan Young was unstarred
    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    12/02/09

    @Bryan Young: somebody wrote the outline... and Twophrasebark is right, what could have happened (i'm basing this on experience in development, not conjecture) is that they hired one writer (or a team of two) to write the script, they got it, and hated it, fired the original writer(s) and hired another one to doctor it. it still stank, or new creative people came in and had other ideas they wanted to incorporate, so they hired another writer to do a new draft, than as the roll date got closer, they paniked, and realized they had a mess on their hands, Jon Favreau came on, and they threw out the script, and didnt have enough time to properly prepare a new one, and somehow Favreau swinged the improv approach. the reason the 'suits' went with it, i assume, is out of desperation
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    Image of Bryan Young Bryan Young
    12/03/09

    @Bootknife-Jackson: whatever the process was, it worked. turned out to be a great great movie
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    Image of fullsoul fullsoul
    12/02/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    The whole time I was reading this, it was The Dude mixing a white russian telling it to me, all because the first sentance said, "man."
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    Image of bibble3000 bibble3000
    12/02/09

    @fullsoul: i was thinking the exact same thing
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    Bootknife-Jackson promoted this comment bibble3000 was starred bibble3000 was unstarred
    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    12/02/09

    @bibble3000: i watch all Jeff Bridges movies thinking about the Dude in disguise....
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    Image of Oranges w/ Cheese has 2 cats! ahahaha. Oranges w/ Cheese has 2 cats! ahahaha.
    12/03/09

    @Bootknife-Jackson: He's always been like that :) Even in Tron
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    Bootknife-Jackson promoted this comment Oranges w/ Cheese has 2 cats! ahahaha. was starred Oranges w/ Cheese has 2 cats! ahahaha. was unstarred
    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    12/03/09

    @Oranges w/ Cheese has 2 cats! ahahaha.: see? exactly! he used to own an arcade and make cool video games, than he got screwed out of it by The Man, man! so now he just sorta hangs out in Valencia and bowls... you want Tron 2? we've had it since 1998 man....
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    12/02/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    I'm not really shocked that they had no script. One of the reasons why I love Iron Man is because everyone seems to have fantastic chemistry together and I kinda thought that some of the scenes were probably ad-libbed.
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    Image of Dominus Astra Dominus Astra
    12/02/09

    @geesejuggler: Yep. Of the two good superhero movies that year, I thought it was the Dark Knight that did not have a script. Iron Man was tight and sleek, without a gram of fat in it. Dark Knight was still good but it was really bloated and convoluted.
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    geesejuggler promoted this comment Dominus Astra was starred Dominus Astra was unstarred
    Image of Occula Occula
    12/02/09

    @geesejuggler: I'm not shocked either. I just watched the Blu-Ray (yum) and was startled to see 4 frigging 'written by' names up there, which usually is the kiss of death; but there was so much chit chat in this film, all those great moments where RDJr talked over Pepper or Rhodey or something wacky came out of someone's mouth, that I hoped that it was all ad-libbed anyway!
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    12/02/09

    @Dominus Astra: That's a pretty good assessment of The Dark Knight but I'm not the biggest fan of it.

    Occula: Yeah, the scene where Rhodey and Tony are on the plane is one scene that stuck out in my mind when I read this.
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    Image of AngriestGeek AngriestGeek
    12/02/09

    In reply to Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script
    This is what happens when you hire talented actors rather than movie stars.
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    Image of sonicsurge sonicsurge
    12/02/09

    @AngriestGeek: Good things happen? I... I don't quite get what you're implying. <_<
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    Image of warpped655 warpped655
    12/02/09

    @sonicsurge: Imagine he is saying your movie is saved. like in the case of Iron Man.
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    Image of Borgasm Borgasm
    12/02/09

    @AngriestGeek: Being the end of the year, I humbly nominate this for most intelligent comment of 2009.
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    Janglesatwest promoted this comment Borgasm was starred Borgasm was unstarred
    Image of ZhannTk ZhannTk
    12/02/09

    @sonicsurge: He's implying that if you get people who can actually act, as opposed to people who just famous and happened to be in movies but can't act, that they can overcome obstacles such has having no script.
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    Janglesatwest promoted this comment ZhannTk was starred ZhannTk was unstarred
    Image of AngriestGeek AngriestGeek
    12/02/09

    @ZhannTk: Not always, of course, but they can give you something because they know how to "flesh out" a role. Think of all Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman and Christian Baled gave to Batman Begins despite some of the clunky dialogue they were given. Now think of how absolutely little Katie Holmes brought with the same script.
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    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    12/02/09

    @AngriestGeek: Yeah, talented actors can really bring a lot to mediocre writing. Anybody but Gary Oldman doing the monologue at the end of Dark Knight, and I'd be pretty frustrated with it. But because it's Gary Oldman and he does it just right, it's a spectacularly memorable ending.
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