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And a million Marvel fans just released their collective breath. Jon Favreau, director of the runaway hit Iron Man, has agreed to helm the sequel according to Deadline Hollywood Daily.

There was some concern on Favreau’s part about the extremely ambitious release schedule Marvel Studios is married to in order to hit a 2011 release date for Avengers. Marvel wants to start shooting next March with plans for Iron Man 2 to hit in April 2010.

Favreau is concerned (rightfully so, I think) that without writers, a script or much of anything else in place Marvel might be pushing things. But industry scuttlebutt is that Marvel Studios threw some of Tony Stark’s excess cash at Favreau and now it’s all good.

Please Marvel, take your time building up to the Avengers movie. It’s only one of the most anticipated movies in the history of comic book adaptations. The other, of course, would be a Justice League of America movie. But Time Warner is moving along with that at the pace of continental drift. So it’s up to you Marvel. Please don’t blow this.

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Not that this should surprise anyone, but Iron Man director Jon Favreau is already looking for ways to up the ante in an inevitable sequel. Favreau was cautious in an interview with Sci Fi Wire, prefacing his comments by saying he’d like to continue if the first film is successful.

He talks about how the weight and pressure of being Iron Man will affect Tony Stark’s already fractured personality. Diehard fans of Ol’ Shellhead will consider that comment a perfect opportunity to transition into the famed Demon In A Bottle storyline. That acclaimed saga chronicles Stark’s descent into and eventual recovery from alcoholism. The much anticipated movie opens May 2 and reviewers so far have compared it to the likes of the Spider-Man films. That trilogy raised the bar for comic book based movies. OK, maybe the third one not so much.

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