Iron Man 2
It's not the armor that makes the hero, but the man inside.
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Production
Budget
$200 000 000
Revenue
$623 933 331
Director
Scenario
Composer
Producer
Actors
Robert Downey Jr.
Tony Stark
Gwyneth Paltrow
Pepper Potts
Don Cheadle
Lt. Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes
Scarlett Johansson
Natalie Rushman / Natasha Romanoff
Sam Rockwell
Justin Hammer
Mickey Rourke
Ivan Vanko
Samuel L. Jackson
Nick Fury
Clark Gregg
Agent Coulson
Short description
Iron Man 2 picks up after the world has learned that billionaire inventor Tony Stark is the man inside the Iron Man armor. The government, the military and the press press him to hand over the technology, but Stark refuses, fearing it could fall into the wrong hands. With Pepper Potts and James "Rhodey" Rhodes at his side, he has to build new alliances and face adversaries who want what he has built.
Jon Favreau returned to direct after Iron Man, the fourth film in his filmography, from a screenplay by Justin Theroux and produced by Kevin Feige. Robert Downey Jr. again leads as Tony Stark, with Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Don Cheadle taking on Rhodey, Scarlett Johansson as Natalie Rushman, Sam Rockwell as Justin Hammer and Mickey Rourke as Ivan Vanko. The production cost around 200 million USD and took in roughly 624 million USD worldwide.
Audience response was positive but moderate: on IMDb the film sits at 6.9 out of 10 from more than 930,000 votes, and on TMDB at 6.9 from about 23,000 votes. A critics' rating of 6.6 out of 10 from 299 reviews places it in similar territory, with professional and general viewers roughly aligned on the film.
What's left behind the scenes
- 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.
- The lithium dioxide mentioned in the film does not exist in nature.
- 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.
- At the 45-minute mark of the film, when Vanko shakes hands with Hammer in the hangar, a toothpick suddenly appears in his mouth during a cut, despite having been in his right hand throughout the previous scene.
- At the 46-minute mark of the film, while Hammer is speaking with Vanko in the hangar, the cherry on his dessert appears and disappears between cuts.
- At the 81st minute of the film, Tony throws strawberries into a trash can and stops with his back to the wall, noticing an old model. In the next shot, Stark is already turned the other way.
- At the 87th minute of the film, Tony begins directing a laser toward the device with the new element, and several errors can be noticed in this scene: When the laser begins cutting through the yellow metal cabinet, the top part starts to fall before the beam has completely cut through the metal. Shortly after, the beam begins burning books on a shelf next to the cabinet, but in the next shot, the laser passes over the already cut books again. When the beam finally reaches the center of the device where the new element is located, it does not damage the wires leading to it.
- 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".
- At the 8th minute of the film, Tony speaks about peace from the stage, standing in a relaxed pose. In the next shot, he is already standing with his hands behind his back.
- At the 8th minute of the film, while Tony is speaking at the expo, he is wearing a white shirt and a bow tie. When he goes backstage at the 10th minute to have his blood analyzed, he is already wearing a black shirt without a tie.
- At the 11th minute of the film, as Tony gets into the convertible, the female marshal is holding the subpoena in her left hand. In the next shot, she hands the subpoena to Happy with her right hand.
- At the 23rd minute of the film, when Ivan Vanko examines his fake passport in an alley, an error can be seen in the document: the 'Nationality' field is listed as 'Russian' (in the feminine form 'Русская').
- At the 26th minute of the film, when Natalie performs a leg takedown and knocks Happy onto the ring canvas, it can be noticed that Scarlett Johansson and Jon Favreau are replaced by stunt doubles in one of the shots.
- At the 29th minute of the film, Hammer places a glass of juice on the table with his left hand before sitting down. In the next shot, he sits at the table holding the glass in his right hand.
- At the 29th minute of the film, when Tony puts his finger in his mouth after the blood analysis, it can be noticed that his reflection in the mirror does so noticeably earlier.
- At the 37th minute of the film, Ivan Vanko is holding Iron Man with a whip in his right hand. When the angle changes in the next shot, Vanko is already holding the whip in his left hand.
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