Exclusive: New Iron Man Fan Film!
Written on January 8, 2008 by Vic Holtreman
There are less than four months left until the premiere of Paramount's Iron Man movie but in the meantime you can feast your eyes on this fan film created by David Guivant. It's not so much a movie as it is the opening title sequence for an Iron Man TV series, made in the spirit of Sandy Collora's Batman Dead End and World's Finest.
David created this on a shoestring budget over a period of a couple of years and it features Tony Stark as Iron Man, plus it includes Pepper Potts, Happy Hogan, The Black Widow, Ms. Marvel, Nick Fury AND The Mandarin. Not only that, but it's chock full of special effects, which believe it or not are all 2D and not 3D.
It's been a labor of love for him and I encourage you to check it out below!
Here is some background on the film, followed by the production credits after the movie:
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN FAN FILM
When billionaire industrialist Tony Stark dons his sophisticated steel mesh armor of his own design, he becomes a living high-tech weapon, the world's greatest human fighting machine : THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN.
THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN is a non commercial fan film inspired by the famous Marvel Comic character and directed by David Guivant with the help of a few friends and with practically no budget.
IRON MAN CAST & CREW
Iron Man......................................Iron Man # 569
Anthony Stark.............................Paul Lasserre
Virginia Potts..............................Tiphaine Bousquet
Harold Hogan............................Olivier Houdan
Natasha Romanoff....................Rosanne Ringenbach
Nicholas Fury.............................Fabrice Wenger
Carol Danvers............................Emilie Denis
Gene Khan..................................Jean Pierre Perreira
Director..........................................David Guivant
Producer........................................David Guivant
Storyboard Artist..........................David Guivant
Script..............................................David Guivant
Special Effects..............................David Guivant
Puppeteer.....................................Jean-Claude Liou
Puppeteer......................................Amandine Pillaut
Puppeteer......................................Julien Leconte
Director's Assistant..................Christophe Guivant
Director's Assistant....................Julien Leconte
Director's Assistant....................Stéphane Rigal
Drapesmaster..............................Marie-Thérèse Chung
Drapesmaster..............................Jeremy Chung
Music..............................................Immediate Music
If you'd like to contact David Guivant you can reach him via email here:
david.guivant [at] gmail.com
You can also see some of his artwork here, here and here.
What do you think?
Awesome! I interviewed David about this labor of love for Advanced Iron. a site and e-zine run by our own Vic, and the best Iron Man fans in the world! Check out the interview here, by downloading the AI e-zine (includes a MAJOR interview with director Jon Favreau):
http://www.advancediron.org/the-zine/the-zine/ai72/download
heath
Nicely done, im very impressed.
Great job! Impressed as well.
Cool fan flick a long time in the making! It's great to see the finished homage to Iron Man!
Very nice!! Where in the hell did he get the special FX for that thing?
I've heard that music EVERYWHERE! LOL!
So there will be more of these in October? :-)
Kel, no - he intended to release it prior to last October but it took longer and more work than he anticipated.
Vic
What's the music called?
Absolutely brilliant!
I can't believe the effects are only 2D... holy crap, how did he chroma-key all those scenes in?
The music sounds like something from the French musical group Era.. This Guivant guy is French, right?
Thanx,Vic.
The music,is what I call "canned music". It can be heard in a LOT of trailers,both "official" and fan made,you'd be surprised. I have no idea where it came from originally,but I know it's been used a lot.
The music's "Lacrimosa" by Immediate Music.
Ahh!!! The song from the Spidey trailer!!
You're right Kel.. no wonder you heard it everywhere.. I guess people started using it after they heard it on the Spidey trailer.
Thanks for the great feedback everyone, it's all done frame by frame in photoshop and all rendered in Sony Vegas. The track is called Lacrimosa from Immediate Music.
EASTER EGG: Take a closer look at the Retina scan sequence, while scanning the AVENGERS DATABASE, a famous character in the Marvel Universe by the name of Excelsior makes a cameo appearance.
Yeah,I noticed Stan the man! :-D
* Kel, "EVERYWHERE" ha ha, me too. This music seems more common with middle ages/fantasy/army type stuff. Did you frame-by-frame BEFORE David mentioned the Easter Egg? Yeesh.
* This fan move is much better and more faithful than the animated Iron Man DVD I rented last week. (What a crappy interpretation of Mandarin--including only half the rings.)
* David, GREAT work, and GREAT actors for all the roles. I hope the disclaimers satisfy the bigwigs at Paramount and Marvel. I've heard Paramount will jump on anyone who uses a Star Trek logo or pic without permission.
* I like the Avengers tie-in.
* I recognize Black Widow, but who is the lady in the shiny black face mask?
Yeah,that Iron Man animated film REALLY sucked,IMO.
No,I didn't,Jim,but I noticed Stan in there immediately,LOL!
Someone will have to make a list of film trailers that has that music to it someone.
pretty freaking cool, great job for a fan film.
Vic, this is great !! David, what a fantastic job you did!! Love the music ... but I still missed Stan after watching a few times. Will keep watching till I find him!!
Thanks for this great treat!
Joyce
Joyce, there's a little box that flashes faces of Marvel characters...if you do the pause-and-play right during Tony's eye scan, you'll see Stan come up among the other characters.
Ahhhh, thanks Jim ... will try that. I am not very wise about this computer stuff! I'm not even sure I'm getting it all .... it is just a trailer .... right??
Yessss... I finally caught Stan. The scans go so fast it's hard to catch the individuals but I did. Thanks for your help!
Thank you VIC and thanks everyone for the great feedback.
Yes there are plenty of easter eggs to come by:
If you slow down the images you will see some of the individual members of the EARTH MIGHTIEST HEROES, including a Sentinel of Liberty, a former model turned insect, a Wakandan Ambassador, a Giant Man, a catwoman, a movie star turned Avengers, a Synthoid married to a Scarlett Witch and Superhero Genius: Excelsior
Here's another one: Did you get to see what type of car Harold Hogan was driving? Is there a character missing? A former bodyguard in a Black and White IRON MAN armor? Look carefully at Virginia Pott's screen, an Icon of the War Machine appears on the monitor, unfortunately the following scene with a pan on War Machine was cut off in the final editing.
Apparently the War Machine Icon was too small to see even when slowed down and looked like a black and white skull so at the test screening some fans though that Tony Stark was tracking down the Punisher during the CIVIL WAR.
David, is this Pay-Per-View? You're gonna have some of us looping this thing all night.
ha ha! hope not! I am bouncing between this and an Air Force test that is driving me nuts.
Keep the red box from hitting the black sides or being hit by the blue boxes. Entertaining evening .... ;-)
David, thanks for your tips.....
No worries mate, The Woman in the mask is Carol Susan Jane Danvers, a fictional character, a comic book superheroine from the Marvel Comics universe, created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan.
Danvers is a retired U.S. Air Force Intelligence agent turned NASA Security Chief, and a romantic interest to the extraterrestrial hero Captain Marvel.
After exposure to technology from Marvel’s Kree home world, Danvers gains superhuman strength and the ability to fly, among other abilities, and becomes Ms. Marvel.
Throughout the years, she also uses the code names Binary and Warbird.
Quite impressive, very nice FX.
meh.
Wow, David Guivant himself is here!!
Hats off to you, sir! This piece of work looks really, really great!!
What are the enemies that they're up against? They looks like something from out of Babylon 5!! It can't be the Chitauri (Skrulls), can it?
Marvel Girl and Iron Man engaging those seemingly-alien spaceships in dogfights.. that looks cool! And I see a scene of what looks like Iron Man flying right through an enemy ship, blowing it up in the process. The scene where he fires some weapon from his fist.. doesn't look like repulsors.. was that a pulse bolt?
Hi Jae, Happy New Year and a pleasure to meet you. Indeed they look like BABYLON 5 spaceships as they also have an organic alien like texture.
HA HA not the CHITAURI, in my TV SHOW the Millionaire Tycoon Gene Khan found a MAKLUAN Alien spaceship that crashed many years ago in The Tunguska region and found 10 rings inside it with other pieces of technology.
Wow so much power but but not strong enough as our planet is protected by EARTH MIGHTIEST HEROES. So he activates a beacon that opens a portal and brings a Makluan fortress next to our planet.
It's up to IRON MAN, FURY, WIDOW, WARBIRD and the AVENGERS to stop the Mandarin and the MAKLUAN Fleet from destroying Earth.
IRON MAN's weapon is a vibroblade, he already used that in an issue where he was fighting TITANIUM MAN.
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SHIELD STRATO-CARRIER
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Speaking of TITANIUM. A mysterious and cloaked intruder has been detected onboard the SHIELD Strato-Carrier. His target is Director Nick Fury. There is a scene where FURY uses his gun to blast TITANIUM MAN. The scene featuring the floating aircraft carrier has been deleted. Only VIC saw the deleted scenes with the Strato-carrier.
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SHIELD STEALTH HAMMER JET
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The first time I shot scenes with a F-117 model and thought that Nick Fury would pilot something fancier then an old jet.
I designed the STEALTH HAMMER jet and deleted the scenes with the F-117, Vic also saw the old dogfight scenes with the Makluan Fleet and the old F-117.
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ROXXON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
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HAPPY is driving a flying car (hovering over the ROXXON industrial complex) which has a machine gun under it.
The same standard car used by SHIELD AGENTS designed by David Guivant who works for STARK Industries. And Tony gets credit for it all the time !!
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BLACK WIDOW: SNEAKING INTO HYDRABASE
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A well known Building serves as the HYDRA BASE in New York.
You'll notice that the interior design has an intricate architecture and texture that reminds you a bit of a an octopus.
Cheers and Thanks for the feedback once again.
Catch you later.
Dave
nice work. hope the movie doesn't have the misandrist hate that is so prevalent in hollywood movies today.
Will this be an actual series?
Chris,
No it won't. But it's a testament to the quality of it that you thought it would be. :-)
Vic
Great trailer, one of the best I have seen...why arent the studios recruiting from sites like these. instead of making crappy FF, punisher, Daredevil, (cant leave out Spiderman 3)movies. Get David on the payroll, keep it real to the comics...
The Trailer is real good, but the music is so over used that it takes away from the trailer!!
Really, it would be worth it to recut it with some other music.
Thanks for the feedback, there are cool music, but they're too short for the opening credit.
Thanks for the support Omar, indeed, a good project comes when you put the right minds together to produce something wonderful.
To David
I sent you this e-mail 10 days ago and I never gotten a reply or help. Here it is:
I am wondering do you have any pics of Black Widow and Ms. Marvel from the trailer from the New Iron Man Fan film? I am looking for the pics that Rosanne Ringenbach and Emilie Denis wearing the costumes of Black Widow and Ms. Marvel. Can you please help me? Thank you for your help.
I sent that on Wed 1/16/2008 1:38 PM.
Wow. That was great stuff for a fan film. Very good job done . I wish the guys in Hollywood had as much imagination.
Combien de temps il t'as fallu pour faire ça ? C'est la bande annonce d'un court metrage ?
Bonjour Eos, merci pour les commentaires.C'est un court-métrage sous forme de générique de série TV fictive.
3 Mois de production et 1 an et demi de post-production en 2D image par image dans photoshop. Tu peux voir ma galerie en haut du site concernant GIJOE / BIRDS OF PREY Saison 2 et TRANFORMERS.
C'est pas vraiment un court métrage alors, c'est un generique, ok. C'aurait pas été plus rapide de travailler avec After Effects ? Je conçois bien que le côté bricolage/image par image est très amusant à faire, mais tu aurais gagné pas mal de temps à faire ça avec un logiciel fait pour le travail de post production video ! C'est un super boulot que tu as fait, mais si au lieu de passer 1 an et demi à le faire tu avais passé un mois et demi, ç'aurait été bien plus impressionnant !
C'est un court-métrage sous forme de générique. ca change un peu des autres teasers et trailers habituels. Je suis Illustrateur et designer par formation, ce ne me dérange pas de faire avec photoshop et aussi en dehors de mes heures de travail respectives. Quand on a la passion et la patiente on oublie le temps et c'est le résultat qui compte en plus c'est gratuit pour visionner , 100 % dans l'esprit de Marvel. Est ce que tu voudrais me donner un coup de main sur mon prochain court-métrage et si c'est possible de me refiler ce logigiel s'il te plait?
Je suis d'accord que si on a la passion et la patience, le temps ne compte pas !
Le logiciel, tu peux le trouver un peu partout sur le net. C'est un produit Adobe.
David,
I'm still waiting for your reply, meantime vist my webste. . . .
Liz
Thanks LIZ, the Invincible Iron Man Fan film may be screened at several sci-fi conventions / Los Angeles / Australia and New Zealand. In April a short article next to Jon Favreau will be published in KHIMAIRA MAGAZINE:
Hi David... was your IIMFF picked up for the WonderCon Marvel presentation in San Francisco this weekend? I think you said you had written to them. Jon will be there and I am hoping he will show yours and the new trailer too.
Ahhh.... IM will soon be here!!!
No it wasn't. It's gonna be screened in AUSTRALI and NEW ZEALAND instead. The actors who did a wonderful job without any drama training wish to thank you all for the cool feedback and welcome you to NEW CALEDONIA if one day you want to come and visit our ISLAND for a vacation under the tropical Sun.
Great Fan film! On the mark. True to the original Iron theme. Thumbs up!
hi the music is for a group called sabath tracks called ironman
COOL NEWS, the IRON MAN FAN FILM is gonna be screened in Australia at the SUPANOVA CONVENTION. (Melbourne and Bribane !!)
Great! When will that be?
Will you also be releasing it on the web at the same time? Or maybe distribute it on torrent sites?
Jae,
The fan film is up at the top of this page. :-)
Vic
How the hell do you do it? you guys ROCK!!
Well, a good understanding of the Marvel Universe and it's characters will make it easier to handle and deliver something good. Too bad we didn't have the same amount of cash and workforce as Hollywood.
But all the actors did a great job portraying the Marvel characters even without any drama training.
Even Stan Lee and the Avengers had a cameo in the film.
The rest is only 2D frame by frame Illustrations and 1 and a half year of post-production on weekends.
100% Free to watch and free to enjoy !!
Thanks again on behalf of the Skeleton cast and crew.
I'm really looking forward to the Iron Man movie. I'm thinking it will be the best Marvel film ever made to date.
Paramount seems to be on the right track Eden !!
Mine will be the best MARVEL Short film 2007. Guest starring the Avengers / Nick Fury / Warbird / Black Widow / Pepper / Happy and the Mandarin. Special Cameo by the Legendary STAN LEE.
