The Superhero genre keeps marching on. It appears that the newest hero that will be making the jump to the big screen is Iron Man. The Big Wigs over at New Line have apparently bought in to the screenplay penned by David Hayter and want production to get rolling by early 2005. That’s a pretty aggressive time table considering they don’t have a director yet. The good folks at Cinescape give us this:
…the search is on for a director, and that Hayter’s take on the material is “Tom Clancy-esque in tone and involves the conflict between Tony Stark and his father Howard over Stark Industries.
Ok, that all sounds good, but here’s my concern. I never really thought the Iron Man character to be all that interesting… or original. On the plus side this is a Marvel property, and in my opinion, pretty much all the Marvel films have been good to great (yes, that includes Punisher, Daredevil and Hulk). But I don’t know. The Superhero movie is running out of film-worthy characters. Perhaps for now they should just focus on existing franchises before the market gets over saturated with new characters. Time will tell.
