TONY STARK IS IRON MAN

from SuperHeroHype comes the official glorious hi-res image release of Robert Downey Jr as suave billionaire Tony Stark and the MARK 3 Iron Man armor [last revealed here]:

cool-looking, no doubt - and i'd be suitably happy if they stuck to the deep-maroon + champagne color-scheme and let the film lighting department do their "magic" (as opposed to the auspicious Chinese New year-colors of bright blood-red and gold, innit? *snicker*) IMHO anyways ... altho it doesn't look anywhere close to these spy-pics leh? *heh*

[original post circa 08.05.07]

IRON MAN WALKING

so is this the actual Iron Man Mark 3 armor in action? [via/via]
... or is it a "Mark 2"? comicbook-gawds forbid if this be a fan-made-video, innit? *heh*

is it too dark to see, or does the suit look like a bulky hi-tech toaster with legs muscled-man painted red and gold?

*im juz sayin'*


courtesy of talkbackers on AICN, here it is the spy-clip:


"The suit was designed by an artist named Phil Saunders who collaborated with Adi Granov based on the comic art of Granov. It evolved over many months and then was brought to Winston Studios to refine the design in order to build it as a working practical costume. Winston modeled and then fabricated the actual suit. It is difficult to identify a single person as the designer because they each contributed to the final design. The EW article correctly stated, however, that the suit was built by Winston. I hope this helps." [via/via]

[original post circa 07.05.07]

ABOUT THAT MARK-3 IRON MAN ARMOR

the (Stan Winston-designed) Iron Man Mark 3 armor revealed on Entertainment Weekly:
[via] and since the Mark 1-armor was also revealed just, i'll be very interested to see (if there will be/is ) a Mark 2-armor, innit? *cool*

[original post circa 04.05.07]

ABOUT THAT IRON MAN MARK-1 ARMOR

personally, after all the "hoopla" about the Iron Man armor/suit-design for the upcoming feature film starring Robert Downey Jr, this Mark-1 version [below/via] somehow looks the best. "low-tech" makes for a more "interesting" form ... but that's just me LOL :p

here's my pitch for an Iron Man-trilogy:

the trilogy spans three generations of Iron Men, from the World War 2 incarnation (which could involve part of The Invaders), revered by many and yet shunned by others for fear of this mechanical-monster, the suit is retired and kept in deep storage ... decades later, the suit is called upon again to fight adversity, this time in the generation of advanced science, where billionaire Anthony Stark Jr fights to keep his company alive, and that of interior invasion of techno-terrorists. the fight is won, but the suit is damaged, the wearer of the armor is crippled and Iron Man is no more ...

fast forward to the future, where technology and science has kept Stark Jr alive and in stasis, with only his brain surviving ... and with such had his consciousness transplanted into a cyborg-Iron Man, to again raise arms against the Techno-Wars, also known as World War Three...

[deviantart] if this concept sounds like something you've read (or written) before, my apologies (for i've not read anything like this before tho) but for sure this is culled from various inspirations (all the What Ifs and Elseworlds LOL) and mayhap will remain as my own little private story, shared with you now ... *heh*

[original post circa 21.04.07]

ABOUT THAT IRON MAN ARMOR 2

and so "Stan Winston Studio is making a real, mechanical version of the armor." [via] for the big-screen live-action Iron Man movie - let us journey down the design-path of 'ol Shellhead's armor from comicbook days of old til the current, and wonder why they didn't just start with an earlier design and upgrade in the sequels! *heh*


which is basically a lift-with-design-mods, from the Marvel comicbook "Extremis" mni-series, written by Warren Ellis & designed/drawn by Adi Granov, innit? (IMHO, anyways) ... i wonder if Granov's gonna get credit for the design in the first place...? *hhhmmm*

[original post circa 17.01.07]

ABOUT THAT IRON MAN ARMOR

found some interesting "rejected" Iron Man armour-designs (by Brandon Perlow) @Screen Rant [via] - for the feature film adaptation of the comicbook, as directed by Jon Favreau (oh man, i hope the pix wif the guns ain't gonna be an indication of how the movies' gonna lead to, yeh?)


seems the "powers-that-be" preferred Adi Granov's designwork (far left) done for the Marvel Comics' Iron Man Extremis mini-series (written by Warren Ellis) instead.

What to Consider When Designing the Iron Man Suit:
01. HEADSPACE = either the actor's head's not too big or the helmet has to be a tighter (and uncomfortable) fit. if not, based on human proportions, it'll be a "bobble-head" instead of a "shell-head" (Iron Man's nick in da comics :p)

02. PUFFED BUFFED SHOULDERS = probably needta broaden the shoulder-area to compliment and/or compensate for the bobblehead-issue. and also to create that all-important V-shaped superhero silhouette.

03. DO YA LIKE MY BODY = a buffed-up actor's body is just gonna be a tighter-fit (and less of a "surprise") for Iron Man. remember, he's not Batman, whose trained his own body to be a deadly weapon ... Tony Stark's suit of armor is the weapon. (unless of coz tis all "thought-activated", then tis Tony's alcoholic-mind lah)

04. THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR FLYING = gotta give that man a pair'o chunky-boots. why? becoz he doesn't want to burn his feets with his rocket-blasts ... and becoz it could add height to the man.

which means Tom Cruise is out. he's gonna end up looking like the Bicentannial-Man, innit?

05. DON'T SWEAT DA DETAILS = loadsa details are good i reckon, altho might be tad too distracting ... mayhap working with similar tonal colors, with detailing captured as textures via the lights? or mayhap, "less is more"

and here's my (token) proposed design [click to view larger image], with the joints and metal-skin surfaces being an organic metal substance that oozes out of the main-armour joints to connect to each other. ya gotta lurve da chunky-boots, eh? well, i do anyways ... *heh*



and then i read this:
"On July 22, 2006 at the San Diego Comic-Con, Favreau confirmed that the villain for the upcoming film would be the Mandarin. He also announced that, "The suit will be more like a weapons platform than a flying suit – more of a War Machine-feel to it." [via] - so it still might be "chunkier" than we thought, huh? shudder *hhhmmmm*

what's your proposed Iron Man armour-design? email me wif pix or links to your design please, thanks :)

[original post circa 21.09.06]