Can you talk about Avengers, Captain America and Iron Man as being a director.

I would love to be faced with that challenge if this works out well and Marvel franchises all come together there’s certainly opportunity to do that.

What can you tell us about the comic book you’re writing?

The comic book I’m writing?  Arnie Granoff and I started working together in designing the suit for the movie.  I wanted him as involved as I could be to stay true to that vision.  I thought his vision for the hero was wonderful.  Then he hit me up and said did you ever think of writing books?  I said I don’t really know that much about that process.  He said I’ll help you with it and we’ve been very collaborative and it’s going to be Iron Man Viva Las Vegas and he’s going to fight Fin Fang Foom on the Vegas strip. 

Will it take place in the movie universe or the comic universe?

I broke out of this movie universe.  It’s too restrictive.  I wanted to have him changing with an attaché case and I wanted to be able to draw on the Marvel universe.

When will it be coming out?

Before the movie. I’m not sure when we’ll be releasing it.

Terrance spoke about revising the script on the set.

Oh yeah sure.

What was it you changed? Was it dialogue?

Dialogue change.  We learned things about the characters as we went.  We refined the story on the set but this is part of the process.  The Marvel movies they do that a lot where it’s more about the story and about and for me there’s always been a component of improvisation in movies I’ve worked on.  I was lucky to have actors who could handle it like this guy.   Ok, I’ll see you there, buddy.

Since Iron Man has a bunch of armor, is there going to be at least a hangar with all the unused armors.  And Swingers hit close to home.

Thank you very much about Swingers.  As far as Iron Man, we showed 2 suits so far—we showed the Mark I and the Mark III. So put it all together.

Where is the Mark II?

We had to save something, right?  We have to save some surprises.

Can you talk about what it’s like to show your footage at Comic Con with 7,000 people and everyone just loving it?

It’s awesome because you don’t know if you’re going to …you could die on the vine here.  If they decide you’re Catwoman, you’re done.  Comic Con can drive a stake through the heart of a property like this where it’s not like Superman, or Batman, or Spiderman where everybody knows it in our culture.  This is something where there’s going to be an education process so by showing it to the fans first they were going to decide whether they liked the movie or not based on what we showed them.  From here we could build out but it’s knowing what the challenges of each title are.  In this film the challenge was knowing and satisfying the fans of the books.  In another movie it’s, you know, reinventing a franchise that’s been done before. Each movie has it’s own.  In our case, this is the place to show the footage for the first time and I think the gamble paid off.  People seemed to respond to it from what I’ve read online, what I’ve seen and what I felt in the room and now Paramount who’s distributing the film is like we’ve got to get a trailer together.  They were the same people who were like we shouldn’t show a trailer yet.  When Transformers was coming out it was too early and now when they saw the fan response here, it’s changing the way they approach things.  So Comic Con is a very valuable way of putting your finger on the pulse of pop culture and pop culture is being driven by Fanboys right now, so lucky for us Iron Man is a title they like and hopefully it’ll slowly roll out to the general population leading up to May 2^nd.