Paltrow “Signed in Blood” for "Iron Man" Sequels
After the debacle of watching the quality of "X-Men 3" descend and implode before our eyes during the production process via the full weight of worldwide-fanboy-Internet scrutiny, it’s extremely refreshing to watch the reverse happen with "Iron Man."
Everything looks so perfect from every update, reveal and announcement that I’ve finished breathing sighs of relief long ago, confident that this thing is going to be spot on when it releases, but I still can’t resist obsessing on every piece of news that comes across the Web about the project.
It’s also been exciting to see the plans for further sequels already in Favreau’s mind. So while not earth shatteringly surprising, it was still good to see Paltrow confirm that she is “signed in blood” for further sequels in an interview with About. Paltrow mostly rambles on through the interview and reveals, not surprisingly, that she had no idea who Iron Man was when approached for the role, and took the role out of the excitement of working with Downey Jr. and Favreau. At the risk of over-hyping this film, it really does look like Favreau will be putting his name up there with Raimi in terms of reinventing how a quality comic book film treatment can be done.
-Kenneth England
