Comic-Con Iron Man Movie Wrap-Up

The 2007 San Diego Comic-Con is over and was bigger than ever with approximately 120,000 people showing up over the 4 1/2 day event! Unexpectedly, the biggest movie buzz award went to...

Iron Man!

I say unexpected because although here at Advanced Iron we've been excited about the film for some time and it had gotten some mainstream press coverage, no one (including Paramount) expected the wild reaction to trailer that was shown at the event. Before the footage was first revealed last Thursday, crowd reaction was good, but not great when director Jon Favreau asked who would be attending the Marvel presentation on Saturday where footage from the movie would be shown. He suprised the crowd by showing the footage at that very same presentation (Paramount's panel) and when the footage finished showing the crowd went insane! 

Zine Editor-in-Chief John Comerford and I attended the Con. John's attendance was last minute as he lives in Chicago and hadn't planned on going until he was contacted at the 11th hour by Mr. Favreau himself. 

Everyone was talking about the trailer, and by the time Saturday afternoon's presentation rolled around the 6,500 seat conference room was completely full and the trailer was met with the same wildly enthusiastic reaction from those in attendance.

Jon Favreau presents Iron Man footage at the San Diego Comic-Con 

At the Paramount presentation on Thursday it seeemed that Jon Favreau would not be able to appear but that he had taped a brief segment for display at the Con. He did a very cute video presentation promising that we'd be seeing early animation footage - it was footage of the old Iron Man cartoon from the 60's.  :-)

He ended up appearing in person. He then went ahead and teased the audience for a bit and ending up showing some footage from the movie and as not only a long time Iron Man fan but as a fan of movies in general all I can say is HOLY COW!

First off was a scene showing Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. He owned the role. Absolutely owned it.

Advanced Iron at the Comic-Con 

Advanced Iron will have a presence at the San Diego Comic-Con for Iron Man movie coverage. We'll be updating this space with the latest and greatest on the movie.

As of right now, A.I. Publisher and Webmaster Vic Holtreman will be there and we're working feverishly to get Saturday access to the Con for A.I. Editor-in-Chief John Comerford because all tickets for that day are sold out. His attendance was a last minute decision prompted by a question from the studio on whether Advanced Iron would be there providing coverage, so we're trying on our end to verify whether we can get our great Chief access to the event at the eleventh hour.

If anyone can get John access to the Comic-Con on Saturday, please contact him via the Advanced Iron Contact page !!

Thanks, and keep your eyes peeled for updates on the movie right here! 

The Iron Man Issue Index has been updated with four of "Hube's Reviews."

Reviews and summaries of the following issues have been added to the index:

IRON MAN, DIRECTOR OF S.H.I.E.L.D. vol. 4 #16

IRON MAN, DIRECTOR OF S.H.I.E.L.D. vol. 4 #17

IRON MAN, DIRECTOR OF S.H.I.E.L.D. vol. 4 #18

IRON MAN, DIRECTOR OF S.H.I.E.L.D. vol. 4 #19