Man, oh man, here it is! A couple of pictures of Iron Monger, the villain in Iron Man, plus a third directly from the newest trailer! If you’ve read the comics or seen the trailer, you learn that Obadiah Stane (played by “The Dude” Jeff Bridges).
After the jump, see the other two.
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Pretty awesome, huh? I really can’t wait for this film! Iron Man, starring Robert Downey, Jr. and directed by Jon Favreau, opens May 2, 2008 from Marvel Studios and Paramount.
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I am sooooooo looking forward to this one !!!!
I hope that what follows IM can compete with this one ; I don’t want the coming crop of movies to peak with Iron Man.
I do have high hopes for Hulk , Speed Racer and Indy (4?) , so I’m still anticipating that it will be a good year for movies.
A little over a month to go, guys. I hope I don’t explode before then.
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That shot of IM catching the car is TOTALLY cool, but TOTALLY ripped off from Smallville!!!
Nice! IM going to stunning the newcomers!
Sheeesh Iron Monger looks like a helluva badass.
This is gonna be gooooooood!!!!!
A supervillain throwing a car at a hero has been done MANY times in comics long before Smallville was ever around.
Especially if someone may be in the car, what’s Iron Man supposed to do, let it smash into the ground?
Vic
Heh, even in the Extremis six-parter, Iron Man had a car hurled on him by Mallen.. but his power ran out and he got pinned underneath (his armor cracked too).
I wonder what sort of damage this armor will endure in the film. From the trailer, we can see that Iron Man did take quite a bit of damage. Comparing the early teaser/trailer with the later one, we can even see that the flying scene up against the Raptors have added details that show Iron Man has taken some damage before squaring off with the Raptors.
i think it all looks very cool,
But i would love it if Iron Man uses the Unibeam from his chest plate to disintegrate a car .
Just to provide a little variety to the battle.
Unibeam with people inside?
Speaking of Unibeam…check out this:
http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=6971
heath
Oh , I was thinking of an empty car.
no I was one of the people who hated the storyline involving Hammer using Starks repulsors By remote control to kill that diplomat .
wasnt it the Carnelian ambassador or something like that?
thats if i have the right storyline,
i dont seem to be batting a thousand today.
dunno if anyone’s mentioned it yet, but the Iron Man movie site has finally added the skins for the other 2 armors.
I’m wondering how the plot will lead to them fighting in the street and on a parking garage.
Its gonna be a knock down, drag out, rock n roll party in the streets!
Prob near the Stark labs.
Does the Iron Monger chasis incase the guy inside or provide life support. The legs and waist don’t look like they have enough room to house the human body in those area. They look totally robotic.
Vic, you’re absolutely correct, in the COMICS cars have been thrown my super-villians countless times before. However, on the screen, be it big or small, it has not been common. I’m sorry, but as soon as I saw that, it reminded me of the Smallville episode when Chloe saw Clark use his powers for the first time catching the car.
Maybe I am in the minority,
But when I see these images i dont think of Smallville.
I think of how excited I am to see Iron Man!
I remember a flying car in Superman Returns and also in Spiderman 3.
What’s smallville?
When was the last time you saw a Superhero take on 2 Raptor jets?
This looks beautiful. I hope there’s lots of action in this, not just a short fight at the end like F4.
One thing tho, we haven’t heard IRON MAN talk yet. Why not? I hope he talks in the film…..
Smallville= lackluster, lame, direspectful of comics, NOT Superman, mediocre
Iron Man= SHEER AWESOMENESS!!! The real deal!!
“Disrespectful of comics?” Listen, I may not be a big comic book nerd like alot of people here, but is there some bible somewhere that says that new stories cannot be created from an idea of another person? I’m so sick of people dissing Smallville that have only probably watched it ONCE or twice while living in mommy and daddy’s basement. “OMG! The COMIC BOOK didn’t have Lex in Smallville! This is CRAP!” I think that Smallville has done an AWESOME job of showing Clark maturing…the show is supposed to be about CLARK KENT, NOT Superman. Who CARES if a TV show with new ideas, doesn’t follow canon exactly?? The stories are good, the characters are portrayed in the SPIRIT of the originals and the SFX are awesome. Hey, if you don’t like it, too bad, you’re missing out on some awesome tv. MUCH better than 95% of the CRAP out there now.
Another thing, I am looking forward to IM just as much as everyone here, but to say it is SHEER AWESOMENESS when we’ve seen 3 minutes of trailers is just ridiculous. For all we know this movie could tank as badly as FF4.
One thing I can’t stand about tv shows is when they focus on the Teenage years.
Smallville, Roswell, 90210, Buffy etc. (All crap to me)
They all follow highschool kids and focus on their teen angst situations.
(Who fricken cares! I don’t).
Most of the actors are all into there twenties, its such bs.
Smallville has (IMO) taken this formula to new lows. I realise the show has fans but to rag on someone for not being a fan is halarious.
Not to exclude Lois and Clark as well.
Both of these Superman spinoff’s are just some of the worst crap I’ve seen on tv in a long time.
For a comic book fan its hard to hold back how one really feels when this garbage gets put out.
Ps. Iron Man will be one of the Top Ten best films of the year.
Enjoy smallville Andy.
I have 2 episodes of Smallville and the final 2 of Jericho (no big hurry, since it was tanking) to catch up on, after I finish getting up to speed by watching the Battlestar Galactica Season 3 DVDs.
790, I agree that Smallville is angst-filled. But it also has some of the highest production quality I’ve seen in a series. There was a scene where an out of control car came hurling up in the air, over a hill, spinning. The driver fell out in mid-air, Clark caught her, ran ahead of the car, which smashed into the ground. He crouched over the girl so that his body shielded her as pieces of the car flew everywhere. I have learned to record this show in the highest recording quality so that I can relish the occasional scene like this. I watched it over and over, even a frame by frame view had each fraction of this scene make perfect sense. No blurs, no silhouettes, no crash dummy. This is not the car-catching image that Kel referred to, but it sure was a beautiful moment in super powerdom. To be fair, Clark does not usually use his powers quite so dramatically. (Although, Bizarro finally gave him a worthy opponent.)
Oh, and, Iron Monger’s head is proportionally as small as the Incredible Hulk’s.
Well like to disagree with whatever Andys saying. Lol!
And I do hate Teen angst and werewovles.
Though it has had it’s ups and downs, overall I’ve enjoyed Smallville over the years. However this year it has really descended into cheesey melodrama.
790, you probably don’t want to ever meet me
I was a Teen Angst Werewolf.
Well Jim I certainly don’t want to watch any of your dvds.
Except maybe the BSG season 3.
QUOTE FROM ANDY: “…is there some bible somewhere that says that new stories cannot be created from an idea of another person?”
Yes.
And new stories are NEVER a problem, in fact, they’re welcomed, COMPLETE REINVENTIONS/REVISIONINGS OF ICONS ARE NOT WELCOME. That’s exactly what Smallville is. Sure, they can do reinventions of iconic characters like Superman, but don’t ever expect longtime fans like myself to jump on the bandwagon and enjoy it. Why don’t you just give the Statue of Liberty shades and an ipod while you’re at it?
“I’m so sick of people dissing Smallville that have only probably watched it ONCE or twice…”
A show like that you don’t need to watch more than once or twice to know that it’s complete crap and has no regard for the status quo of the comics.
“…while living in mommy and daddy’s basement.”
Typical of you to say that. That’s usually the first thing that you non comics people pull out your asses to beat us comic book people over the head with, that we are bums who live in our parents’ basements. Typical low brow remark.
“OMG! The COMIC BOOK didn’t have Lex in Smallville!”
If that’s the only problem you see with Smallville then you really don’t know much about the comics.
“…the show is supposed to be about CLARK KENT, NOT Superman.”
Exactly. CLARK KENT. In Smallville. That means there should be NO Lois, Jimmy, Perry, Daily Planet, Metropolis, Luthor, Flash, Green Arrow, etc, the show is waaaaay off base. It’s no longer just about Kent anymore, they’ve now managed to distort the Superman mythos as well with their mediocre interpretation.
“Who CARES if a TV show with new ideas, doesn’t follow canon exactly??”
No one really cares that it doesn’t follow it EXACTLY, the problem fans have is that it doesn’t follow it at all.
“The stories are good, the characters are portrayed in the SPIRIT of the originals…”
Your comment on how good the stories are is debatable, however the characters’ “spirit” is far from the original comics. Again, just by that statement you show your lack of knowledge regarding them.
BTW, regarding the “catching the car” issue: I verified that there IS a family in the car in that scene.
Vic
Yea you can easily see them in the front seat.
The second picture where Iron Man is trying to not drop the car down to hard remind me of the 1st Comic book image of Superman when he’s holding up that car.
But unlike ripping this off from SM I see it more of an homage.
I’m sure there’s going to be vehicles that Iron Man does throw at Monger but they will be empty.
Iron Man will more than likey have hightech vision capabilties enabling him to see thru cars. So that he would be able to tell at a glance if they had people in them.
We know from the trailers so far that Stark uses his powers to protect people.
I’m really thinking it will beat “Superhero Movie” this year.
Btw is tracking at 3.4m so far on Friday. Putting it on a course to maybe break at 10mil. (Big bomb)
I just finished reading Iron Man: Extremis. The movie seems to borrow a few ideas from it. Like having Tony being captured in the middle-east. The armor is very similar. And guess what, at one part he gets a car thrown at him and catches it…well sorta. He catches it and then it crushes him.
Oh hey KEL, about Iron Man talking. This scared me a bit, but when I was checking out the new Iron Man swag the toy sounded like the Black sabbath (I AM IRONMAN). It better not be like that in the movie.
New IM TV spot over at Superhero Hype!!
http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=6988
Yeah, I saw it, it was great. I watched all three.
Definitely looking forward to this film most this year….
Also (soory to bring this back up but I couldn’t resist), the F4 films were MUCH closer to the F4 comix than Smallville is to the Superman comix.
And I don’t see how Iron Monger picking up a car is copying anything we’ve seen before (Action #1, Superman Returns pics, Smallville, etc). Besides, the car has a fam in it and is being picked up to hurt someone with (unlike what Superman was doing with the car in the afformentioned). Vehicles in comics, movies, etc, have always been thrown around, why would you guys think this is something of a homage to anything anyway?
Thanks, Surma. I hope he doesn’t sound like that in the movie either. Why haven’t we heard actual Iron Man speak yet? Maybe he doesn’t speak? :-0
KEL, since you haven’t SEEN the episode of Smallville that I am talking about, why can you say it isn’t the same?? It’s in Season 4, the episode is called “Pariah.” The shooting angle and the effect are VERY similar to the one in the above photo. THAT IS ALL I AM SAYING. Chill, dude!!
Here’s the link to the scene on YouTube. I must have misremembered (LOL) the scene, because it is not exactly like the one in IM, but you can see how it is similar…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVEK1uZ9buc
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