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avengers

9 Unknowns We Want to See in the Avengers Movie

Jon Favreau may have spilled the unsurprising beans on who the movie version of Marvel’s Avengers consists of, but what does he know? He may not even be making Iron Man 2: This Time, He’s Rusty! We here at io9 would rather see a movie that builds around the core franchise heroes with some lesser-known names from the Marvel library. Join us under the jump for our list of (io)9 potential new movie idols. More »

12:20 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Graeme McMillan
9,708 views, 43 comments

Cowboys & Aliens

Robert Downey Jr. Will Be Your Huckleberry

Robert Downey Jr. will save the world from an evil race of settler aliens as crack-shot gunslinger Zeke Jackson in the movie Cowboys & Aliens. Giving the humans a taste of their own wild, wild West medicine, a powerful group of aliens lands on Earth and proceed to steal our land and murder our people. Click through to find out more. More »

10:40 AM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Meredith Woerner
3,095 views, 32 comments

Latest by RAHfanboy: @Thorfin: "Apparently nobody in Hollywood watched The Adventures of Brisco County Jr." Apparently Hollywood wasn't the only locale to tune out. A shame. more »

the incredible hulk

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner With The Hulk

The Incredible Hulk just got a whole lot more incredible now that the studio has released a new TV spot showing one of the many rumored cameos. Who is General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross giving a double-take look to? Watch the trailer and find out. More »

8:20 AM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Meredith Woerner
4,318 views, 11 comments

iron man review

Robert Downey Jr.'s Exposed Torso Is America

There's no way to make an apolitical movie out of Marvel Comics' Iron Man, and director Jon Favreau doesn't try. The story of a weapons manufacturer who's captured by a warlord in Afghanistan is clearly a metaphor for American power overseas. The great strength of Iron Man, which opens tonight, is that it can be read in a variety of ways, in spite of a fair bit of speechifying. And how you read the movie's narrative of weapons proliferation depends on how you view the constantly half-naked cyborg torso of Robert Downey, Jr. Spoilers ahead, Iron-fuckers! More »

Feature

9:00 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
10,132 views, 63 comments

Latest by n/a: Good write up, apart from a couple of points: Starks heart is not turned into a source of world-beating power - the technology had already been created - albeit in a larger form. He merely miniaturised it. Paltrow doesn't do any more »

iron man

Iron Man Talks On His Cell Phone While Driving

Here's another new clip from Friday's Iron Man movie, courtesy of star Robert Downey Jr.'s appearance on Letterman last night. I saw the film last night, and this clip showcases the playfulness with which the movie melds personal technology with Tony Stark's super high-tech armor. It totally makes sense that Tony would re-route his cellphone into his armor — and yet it's startling and hilarious at the same time.

12:08 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
6,394 views, 18 comments

iron man

Dual Iron Man Posters Duel For Your Wallspace

This summer's Iron Man movie has two new posters out... and they both look like 80s movie novelization covers. Isn't just a closeup of Iron Man's mask all the marketing department would need to suck you into this thing? Will someone be strolling past one of these somewhere and go "Oh look! A movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow! I'll be sure to see this!" If that's the case, then we fear for the future of humankind. Check out poster number two, after the jump. More »

11:00 AM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Kevin Kelly
4,511 views, 28 comments

Latest by zenpoet: I would slightly disagree with most others posts here, in that I think that this will likely make more people see the movie. Why? Because superhero movies in the past have been so crappy, that I would guess that they more »

iron man

New Iron Man Trailer Now More Rockin'

Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow have an even spicier relationship in Iron Man than we'd expected, judging from this newly released trailer. And the use of AC/DC lets us know this movie will have big balls. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) More importantly, the new trailer gives us a way clearer sense of the movie's arc. More »

6:30 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,950 views, 42 comments

jon favreau

Jon Favreau: Iron Man's Look Borrowed from Top Gun and Battlestar Galactica

Yesterday we spoke to Jon Favreau, director of the upcoming Iron Man movie. In the panel before our chat, he showed an extended version of the jet boots scene from the Superbowl commercial for Iron Man, basically to prove that the whole movie isn't cut in that hyperfast MTV style that the trailers show. We see Tony working intimately on the jetboots, soldering wires, getting assistance from a voice-activated lab robot, and then running a test flight... which sends him spiraling into the wall. See what Favreau told us about the highly-anticipated superhero flick, below. More »

12:18 PM on Sun Feb 24 2008
By Kevin Kelly
3,180 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: I met him at WonderCon. Great guy! more »

rumor-o-matic

Hulk and Iron Man In Super-Movie Crossover

Despite the attempts at super top-secret security on movie sets these days (which apparently means drawing as much attention to yourself as possible and then denying everything later) news has leaked out that the Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk crews are teaming up to film a scene together. Versions of that scene will appear in both movies, but the really exciting part is which kickass actor will be in both scenes. More »

10:45 AM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Kevin Kelly
380 views, Comment