I have just lost all interest in this film
Iron Man will not be fighting the Mandarin, says one reviewer who read the script. The enemy is Chimpy McBusHitler.
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This script is almost exactly what a character like Iron Man should be facing. The script opens on a weapons facility hidden somewhere in North Korea, and we soon discover that it is Tony Stark’s weapons that are being manufactured there – but without his knowing. What unravels is a tale of global and corporate espionage, tying into the current War on Terror and some social commentary on WMD’s. THIS is what Iron Man needs to be dealing with, and not some super villain with a theme.
It’s easy to see why the studio is going in a different direction with the real film. This version makes America the bad guys, run by a corporate Hitler with people planted throughout the government, as high as the Vice President.
Now, the reviewer (let us called him, “That Guy Who Liked Ang Lee’s HULK”) is complaining that the studios might deviate from the script, and put in more action. Well, the studios had darn well better deviate from this script if they want my hard-earned theater-going ticket money. I could buy a paperback for that same price, after all. I could spent two hours playing with my kids instead.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
