Director Jon Favreau chats about filming the big-budget Iron Man and what it was like to work on the film at Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light & Magic.

Iron Man is one of the biggest-budget movies you’ve worked on. How does that feel?
I feel like there’s never enough money no matter how much money you have, because you’re always trying to put more on the screen than you’ve got. I feel there should be another name for a director of these movies, because, when you direct a comedy, you come in and you work on a script or you write a script, everybody goes on the stage, maybe you discover a few things and make a few jokes, and then you edit it together, you pick a composer, you lay the music down, you mix it, and you walk away and maybe it’s a year of your life.

Here, you are literally inventing a world, or defining a world based on a world that somebody else invented. Or you’re creating rules for it. And that’s informed by the cast, that you have to get approved and make a deal with, and convince that cast that you’re not just putting them in a piece of crap, and that you’re actually aspiring for something that they’re going to be proud of.

Fortunately in my generation there’s enough people who love Marvel that it doesn’t just feel like what it must have felt like when Alec Guinness was offered Obi-Wan Kenobi, you know, and it was like, “What is this?” Yeah, and you don’t trust it until it’s over.

Where are you at in the process?
I’m about to go Skywalker right away I leave here and check into “The Inn,” the geek fantasy. I’m right across in the studio from ILM and we’ll be finished up shots. This leg of the process is about sound mixing and still cutting in shots, digital effects shots. A few creative decisions left, but the film is essentially locked, so it’s about making sure we hold a high standard for the visuals and get that spectacular Skywalker Sound.

Read the full interview here:
Q&A: Director Jon Favreau (Comics Continuum)

This entry was posted on March 4, 2008 at 12:12 pm and is filed under Celebrities, ILM, Skywalker Sound, in the media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.