'Iron Man' Footage Revealed at Comic Con!

I gotta tell ya, this project looks HOT.

By: Laremy Legel
Published: Thursday, July 26th 2007 at 3:31 PM

Along with the brand new image from Iron Man featured above (click here for a larger look) we were treated to some spectacular footage from the Paramount Pictures panel here at Comic Con.

I've got to say that Iron Man was the coolest part of the ten film presentation, and it switched me from an "I don't care about this project" sort of person to a "I would like to see this now please" style of guy.

They first showed John Favreau on the big screen, introducing a clip that turned out to be Iron Man cartoon footage – it looked to be from the 60's. Then the REAL John Favreau showed up and all hell broke loose. He had his camcorder with him and he was taping the audience the whole time, quipping "Hey, if it's going to appear on YouTube I might as well have my own version!" He even taped during the real clip, I was a little concerned he was going to be arrested as they told us around a zillion times we couldn't even think of recording anything. He mentioned post production was going well and then we got a real treat; actual footage from Iron Man.

The clip started out with Robert Downey Jr's character, Tony Stark, who told a reporter he preferred the moniker "Merchant of Death" to "The Modern Day DaVinci" because he "doesn't paint." We also saw his transformation into Iron Man after a military convoy he's riding with gets brutally attacked. Mark 1 and Mark III made appearances, both of which are pretty much hella cool looking. A guy tries to shoot Iron Man in the head… and that does not go well for him. There's also a really quick shot of three women wearing bikinis in a pool, so clearly we're going to get a bit of the sexuality with our violence. All in all the footage was great and Iron Man now looks like a movie on the rise (at least to me).