ROTTEN TOMATOES: "Iron Man" Screenplay = Good Enough? Comments

"Iron Man" Screenplay = Good Enough?

by Scott Weinberg | April 26, 2006

Summary

The movie freaks over at Latino Review (apparently) got a peek at the screenplay for New Line's eventual "Iron Man" flick, as written by genre specialists Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and David Hayter. Since I refuse to ever read a script review, I can't offer much commentary, but the LR guys give the screenplay a grade of B- (or "good enough"), which would make it better than "Fantastic Four," at least. Back to Article

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lpbreeze writes:
on Apr 26 2006 01:51 AM

I think Burt Lancaster would be great as Iron Man. wait..DOH!

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t-joint writes:
on Apr 26 2006 02:07 AM

"Good enough." About what I expect from the corporate whores at Marvel nowadays. Just get the flick out, merch it to death, then move on to ruin another character.

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cgcbooks writes:
on Apr 26 2006 06:12 AM

How soon can Tom Cruise be ready?

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Merlin235 writes:
on Apr 26 2006 07:16 AM

[b]Marvel[/b]
Marvel starting off with their movies being sooooo promising. Spiderman. X-men. And then what? Elektra? Dardevil? I mean come on, what happened?

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dracus writes:
on Apr 26 2006 07:21 AM

In reply to this comment (#834437)
As soon as he can get out of diaper duty and adjusts his medication dosage.

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elziard writes:
on Apr 26 2006 08:09 AM

punisher was a dud and though daredevil showed promise, they crammed in about 25 years of DD lore into 90mins with the worst visualization of bullseye EVER!

then elektra >shudder< and apparently next on the dud list is ghost rider.

Fantastic four was commercially popular but critically and fanboy panned.

iron man has potential as long as tom cruise's thetan level doesn't rise while filming.
he'd make a good tony stark: arrogant, >ahem!< "man's man (does anyone remember some of the hairdo's and the signature mustache?), overly intense and apparently the ladies man.

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Callpacas writes:
on Apr 26 2006 12:00 PM

i dun mindTom Cruise, and the tide can change at any moment.

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Now it's dark writes:
on Apr 26 2006 01:37 PM

Cruise wearing a mask? Doubt it.

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Skeptic44 writes:
on Apr 26 2006 07:06 PM

Rob Lowe.

Jamie Bamber.

McDreamy.

As long as it's not Will Smith, I'm there.

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Dave the Destroyer writes:
on Apr 26 2006 08:49 PM

Oh, C'Mon. Jack Black was BORN for this role.........

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renny2077 writes:
on Apr 26 2006 10:37 PM

Never been into the iron-man lore. My question is: can iron-man resist extremely powerful electromagnets? My guess is that Magneto would wipe the floor with iron-man, wouldn't he?

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TheAnswerMVP2001 writes:
on Apr 27 2006 01:00 AM

Now we are going on the opinons of the Latino Review... okay nothing personal but if they were the first to get a glimpse of the script and report on it then it really must not be that great.

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Sinizine writes:
on Apr 27 2006 01:38 AM

In reply to this comment (#834446)
They generally get a ton of scripts first actually. The name is odd, but probably AICN is the only site that gets more.

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blorenze writes:
on Apr 28 2006 06:41 PM

Matt Dillon as Tony Stark? eh? eh?

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RedRing writes:
on Apr 29 2006 06:50 PM

[b]Hmmm[/b]
I thought Tony Stark was spanish.

Might as well give it to a spanish actor right? I mean it's only fair right?

RIGHT?!

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Reel 2/Dialogue 2 writes:
on Apr 30 2006 11:03 AM

[b]Heavy boots of lead fill his victims full of dread[/b]
If War Machine's not in this, then what's the point? Seriously, I'm unfamiliar with the breadth of Man de la Iron's roguery.

I nominate Dax Shepard for Tony Stark. Built like a brick sh*thouse, looks like Zach Braff. What's not to cheer for???

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RedRing writes:
on Apr 30 2006 02:29 PM

[b]I Nominate[/b]
I nominate Jimmy Smitts.

Google him....

or off the top of my head Tom Selleck.

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Grundark writes:
on Jun 28 2006 03:25 PM

I think Jim Caviezel would be perfect for this role.

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