Iron Man 2

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Timing: 2:4 (124 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2010-04-28

Country

United States

Production

Marvel Studios, Fairview Entertainment, Marvel Entertainment

Genre

Adventure, Action, Science Fiction

Budget

$200 000 000

Revenue

$623 933 331

Website

https://www.marvel.com/movies/iron-man-2

Director

Jon Favreau

Actors

Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, Clark Gregg, John Slattery, Garry Shandling
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Scenario

Producer

Kevin Feige, Stan Lee, Denis L. Stewart, Jon Favreau, Susan Downey, Louis D'Esposito, Alan Fine, David Maisel

Operator

Matthew Libatique

Composer

John Debney

Artist

Audition

Sarah Halley Finn, Randi Hiller

Editing

Richard Pearson, Dan Lebental
All team (152)

• Al Pacino was considered for the role of Justin Hammer.
• Emily Blunt was supposed to play Black Widow, but she had to decline the role due to her commitment to "Gulliver's Travels" (2010).
• Gennady Tartakovsky did storyboards for the film's action scenes.
• Mickey Rourke suggested that his character partially speak Russian.
• Robert Downey Jr. recommended Justin Theroux to Jon Favreau as the film's screenwriter.
• The first sequel produced by Marvel Studios.
• The first sequel directed by and starring Jon Favreau.
• Don Cheadle replaced Terrence Howard as Rhodey, following a deterioration in the relationship between Terrence and Marvel Studios.
• Whiplash (Mickey Rourke), as portrayed in the film, is a combination of two Iron Man villains – Whiplash, who wields a special whip, and Crimson Dynamo, who wears armor controlling electricity.
• Samuel L. Jackson, having appeared in the first film as Nick Fury, signed a unique deal with Marvel Studios before filming began on the second installment, stipulating that he would appear in nine films as Nick.
• Scarlett Johansson wanted the role of Black Widow so much that she dyed her hair red, even before she was cast.
• According to Don Cheadle, he tried to play Rhodey his own way, however, in the end, he copied most of the image from Terrence Howard.
• For the role of Black Widow, Scarlett Johansson trained intensely for six weeks before filming began and continued training throughout the six-month shooting period.
• Sam Rockwell, who played Justin Hammer, was considered for the role of Tony Stark in the first installment.
• In the comics, Justin Hammer is an elderly man, however, for the film, he was specifically 'rejuvenated' to better suit the role of Tony Stark's rival.
• The design of Vanko's whips was inspired by the lightsabers of the Jedi from 'Star Wars'.
• Emily Blunt, Jessica Biel, Jessica Alba, Natalie Portman, and Angelina Jolie were considered for the role of Black Widow.
• Johansson drew inspiration from Greta Garbo's performance in 'Ninotchka' (1939) and Barbara Bach's in 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.
• In the box of Tony Stark's father's belongings, received from Nick Fury, one can notice a real issue of the 'Captain America' comic book that was released in the post-war period.
• As in the first installment, Tony Stark mistakes someone else for Stan Lee. In this part, he mistakes him for Larry King.
• After the end credits, one can notice an attribute of another Marvel Universe character – Thor's hammer.
• The soundtrack to the first part of the film was mainly written by Ramin Djawadi, a German of Iranian origin. In the sequel, however, Favreau completely changed his approach to the score. This time it included songs by the legendary Australians AC/DC, in particular the compositions Shoot to thrill, Back in Black, T.N.T, Highway to Hell and Thunderstruck.
• Rourke very much wanted to humanize his villain, so that he would not be one-sided, so director Jon Favreau "allowed" Vanko to keep a cockatoo in his prison cell.
• In one of the scenes, you can notice a dossier on Tony Stark, which states that he was born on May 29, 1970, knows English, Spanish, Italian and Afghan-Persian Dari, and graduated from Phillips Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• American billionaire and inventor Elon Musk played himself in the film. Robert Downey Jr. used his image as a reference when preparing for the role of Tony Stark.
• Tony uses the phrase "ionized plasma," which sounds roughly like "wet water," as plasma is a fully ionized substance (most often a gas).
• The lithium dioxide mentioned in the film does not exist in nature.
• At the beginning of the film, several shots are shown of a Moscow courtyard, and next to the road a car is parked with Russian license plates containing the English letters 'w' and 's'.
• At the end of the film, when the senator poses for a photo between Tony and Rhodey, Tony places his hand on the senator's back. In the next shot, Tony's hand is gone, and then it reappears.
• Tony uses the phrase "ionized plasma," which sounds roughly like "wet water," as plasma is a fully ionized substance (most often a gas).
• At the beginning of the film, several shots are shown of a Moscow courtyard, and parked along the road nearby is a car with Russian license plates containing the English letters "w" and "s".