I noticed all around the Internet this little pic from Entertainment Weekly has generated quite the following as the site offers up a look at the main cast from Iron Man.
Up front you see Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man), a playboy billionaire weapons manufacturer who becomes a born-again do-gooder in high-tech duds after a brush with death forces him to reevaluate his life.
From left to right you see Terrence Howard as Jim Rhodes, Stark’s right-hand man (who in future movies might just don some armor himself), Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Stark’s loyal secretary, and finally old baldy over there is Jeff Bridges as Stark’s mentor, Obadiah Stane.
To check out the full article, which includes some cool little quotes click here.
Iron Man hits theaters on May 2, 2008, but the EW feature also talks about one other movie, this one due out this year.
“In the novel, they are vampires,” says Lawrence. ”It’s a whole play on the lore of the vampire. [But] in ours they are people who have a chronic infection. It’s something that could happen, with these bird-flu pandemics floating around us all the time.’
”The infected are affected by light, so they mostly come out at night, which is when he armors himself up in his house. But if he needs to go into a building or gets trapped for any reason, you would never want to be unarmed. So he’s always very, very cautious and avoids the dark at all times.”
It sounds like the took a bit of vampire lore and mixed it in with 28 Days Later. Will it work? Will fans of the book be pissed? With Will Smith attached it is almost guaranteed to do nice opening weekend box-office when it hits on December 14, but we will have to wait and see if it can sustain momentum throughout the holidays.
EW has an exclusive new look at the film teased to the right, but you can get a full look here.
