By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Paramount Pictures, Joblo
Iron Man
Can it be? Another incredibly slow news day on the film front? Hard to tell, but at least there are some tentpoles out there still making news today. Take Iron Man for instance...
Favreau Talks Everything Iron Man
The good people at Joblo have posted an extensive interview with "once swinger now director" Jon Favreau. The interview is so rich with information that I was forced to focus on a particular segment. Since comicbook films can be either dark (Christian Bale's Batman) or colorful (George Clooney's Batman), a film's rating is always important in this genre. In short, a PG rating usually means that the film doesn't exactly have audiences who are in their late teens or above in mind. Favreau knows this, and wanted Iron Man to get stamped PG-13 by the MPAA.
I noticed there was an announcement on your blog that IRON MAN is going to be PG-13.
I put it up. A lot of times I make announcements. I'll jump on the IRON MAN movie group and if I see people talking about something or they have a question or they’re speculating, I’ll clarify as best I can with pertinent information. But I don’t really make announcements like that, like, "Here’s the big announcement: The movie’s going to be PG-13.” You don’t know but that’s what we’re all shooting for, so when people are speculating - like when FANTASTIC FOUR 2 was given a PG and people were surprised by that, they were wondering what we’d be. I said I thought we would be PG-13.
What was the reason for that?
I think you want it to be entertaining for everybody, you want it to be appropriate for kids but not geared towards kids, and I think PG-13 is that good balance where you can have violence, you can have real life or death stakes, but yet it’s something I’d be comfortable bringing a younger than 13-year old kid to. But it’s tough - these type of movies, you want it to be good for the whole audience, for everybody, and if you skew too young you will disappoint adults and if you make it too dark and too violent or [feature] too much explicit language or sexuality, there’s a lot of kids out there who want to see it. I don’t want anything in there that’s going to make me as a responsible parent uncomfortable repeating something at school or seeing something that’s going to freak him out too much.
Iron Man opens to theaters on May 2nd.
For the poster, trailers, stills and latest headlines, go to the Iron
Man Movie Page.
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