This is a new behind-the-scenes featurette from the set of Iron Man 2. The first 45 seconds are in French (the boom mic guy can’t keep his equipment out of the shot, but if they fire him they still have to pay his salary for three months, so it looks like they’re stuck with him, c’est la vie), but the rest the interviews are in English. Although the nerds who control the internet demand I post anything Iron Man-related immediately, I don’t really find these ‘making-of’ videos all that interesting. To me, making movies is kind of like making sausage. I don’t want to see what goes into making the sausage, I just want to cook it up and eat it out of a homeless woman’s vagina. I guess I’m old fashioned like that.
[via ComingSoon]
Entertainment Tonight has been hard at work this week, sending not one, but two of their trained seals to the set of Iron Man 2, where they asked the stars the tough questions, like “How’s your diet going?” and “Why come you’re so pretty?” (There’s briefly a cool part at the 56-second mark where Whiplash cuts a Rolls Royce in half with his whips). They didn’t talk to Mickey Rourke, probably because if E.T. anchors get dog fur on their clothes they melt like the wicked witch, but they spent plenty of time with Gwyneth Paltrow, who we see as the only person on the set breathing into a gas mask. Probably because her lungs are more important than yours, they live in England, you know. She also had this to say:
“Pepper’s evolving a little bit in her look, you know, but she’s still rocking all the high heels. I can’t believe that I can put on a bathing suit, or wear these costumes that are tiny and short or whatever, and still feel good about myself!”
It’s true, Gwyneth, you’re so amazing! Come on, everyone, let’s build a Paltrow monument that you can see from space! It’s almost as if she has all day to exercise and have private chefs cook her healthy food while immigrants take care of her kids or something. Anyway, ScreenRant has a nice, spoilery breakdown of what clues to the Iron Man 2 plot this video may have revealed. You know, if you’re some kind of Schloimo Dorkowicz.
Apparently Marvel and Paramount are considering converting Iron Man 2 to 3D at the last minute and are currently testing a converted one-minute clip of Mickey Rourke. The following rumor comes from Harry at AICN, so you’ll have to excuse the childlike writing and excessive exclamation points. (!!!!)
One birdy tweeted a secret tweet that put me on the scent [a secret tweet? how is the sound a whistle makes a secret? and how do you find the scent of a sound? does that require synesthesia? oh nevermind. -Ed] - and then I found other birdies to sing the same tune. So I can state that the following is absolutely true, though the final results have yet to be heard.
Right now, there is a 1 minute demo of IRON MAN 2 converted to high quality digital 3D. I’m told this one minute is totally like Kim Basinger & Mickey Rourke in 9 1/2 WEEKS. HOT! Crazy Hot! [they eat food in the sex scenes! that's why it gets me so horny!!!] Right now the Suits at Marvel & Paramount & now also Disney are considering this 1 minute.
At the same time that this is happening, they are fishing for bids with 3 different companies to see what the cost and time it would take to convert IRON MAN 2 to a complete 3D film. This same process is being done to Tim Burton’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
UPDATE: Yep, fun ruined by Paramount’s lawyers.
Here’s the Iron Man 2 footage screened at Comic Con the other week, shot on glorious buttcam. If you can actually understand the dialog you have better headphones than I, but from what I can tell, it starts with Robert Downey asking if he can join Nick Fury-Samuel Jackson’s team. Then it transitions to a court sequence in which Senator Gary Shandling wants the government to take away Tony Stark’s suit, because obviously it’s a national security threat, just like the X-Men. Duh, dude, just relax. Let Tony Stark handle whatever comes up, it’s his vision. Don’t you read Ayn Rand?
Then after the hearing, it switches to random shots of stuff, like Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Mickey Rourke as Whiplash, all set to music. It gets me super pumped to see the movie, but in a way it’s sort of cheating. You could edit Love Actually to “Shoot to Thrill” and I’d probably be in the back headbanging, screaming “YEEEEAH, LET’S SEE THIS BITCH FALL IN LOVE!” That doesn’t necessarily make it a good movie.
Also, and this is neither here nor there, but if Mickey Rourke could rock out to AC/DC while feeding his pet cockatoo crackers from his mouth it would be the cutest thing ever.
This new batch of new pictures from Iron Man 2 just hit the web, but since I don’t really like commenting on publicity stills, I brought in special FilmDrunk correspondent Terrence Howard to do it for me.
“Hey, man, solid. Since I was in Iron Man 1, lotta cats keep askin me what I ‘think’ about ‘Don Cheadle’ ‘replacin me, and am I ‘mad’ about it, and all that jive. Well dig this, man: sayin ‘Don Cheadle’ ‘replaced’ me, man, that’s, like… a matter of faulty perception. The consummation of obsolete cognitation, ya dig? See, because, man, when you get down to the root of it, we all of us made up of the same energy. The same forcefields that govern the universe, like bricks in a wind chime, man. He didn’t replace me, because we are the very same - Don Cheadle, me, the ocean, a go-kart, glaciers, my grandma’s piano, the ink on the contract I wouldn’t sign, Jesus Christ, and the dinosaurs, man. See, we all the same when you start diggin, ya dig, so ain’t no reason to palaver about who replaced who when we should be playin’ drums and smokin’ weed and makin’ love, man. Now sit tight while I scat a while: skib. skibbity BOP. Skibbity beep bop a-doodle plop, dweedly dweedly dweedly YOW!”
[via USA Today - and they've got a couple more than I included here so head your ass on over there if you wanna see them]
