Has he lost his mind?

[seriousfic]

The Wikipedia entry on Iron Man is full of useful information.

When shooting the Spoiler cameo (sorry to get your hopes up, but Stephanie Brown is not in this movie... yeah, that joke has never been funny), Brian Michael Bendis had written three pages of dialogue for the scene, the best lines of which the filmmakers chose.

For those of who you aren't familiar with Bendis, that's pretty much him in a nutshell.

[For the sequel] Downey and Favreau met with Shane Black, who suggested they model Stark on Robert Oppenheimer, who became depressed with being "the destroyer of worlds" after working on the Manhattan Project.

Shane Black, hand to God, makes William Goldman look like Zak Penn (the guy who bragged about making Magneto a nuanced, morally gray villain by equating him with Osama Bin Laden. He's also writing The Incredible Hulk. Hope springs e-fucking-ternal). For those of you who don't know a spec script from a cold open, Shane Black wrote pretty much every action movie worth seeing, then directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I still say Gay Perry could kick Captain Jack's ass all over the GLAAD Awards.

So having him contribute ideas to the sequel... I can only assume Angelina Jolie will also show up to shoot a ten-minute sex scene for the unrated DVD and then Jackie Chan will say "Hey, can I be in your movie?" and he and Jet Li will have a kung-fu fight during one of the boring parts where giant robots aren't fighting or Robert Downey Jr. isn't talking.

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