Jon Favreau Not Signed to Direct Iron Man 2?

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Just when Marvel seems to be at the top of their game for movies with the huge success of Iron Man, they go and get rather stupid. I guess they’re thinking they might be able to get some other director in there cheap. Iron Man has already raked in over $535 million in worldwide box office receipts, they haven’t secured director Jon Favreau for the sequel Iron Man 2.

This last Friday I was contacted by another source at Marvel and this one, let’s just say, is much higher up on the food chain, and told me that the chairman of Marvel Studios David Maisel who has been in charge of negotiating new terms with Favreau is being cheap and not willing to pay a fair directors’ fee.

Favreau was a bargain to begin with, he is after all a fairly new director even though he has had several commercially successful films under his belt when he was brought aboard Iron Man for a steal.

Don’t know exact numbers but I am sure that it wasn’t a Michael Bay/Brett Ratner/Bryan Singer paycheck. He had to prove himself after all and looking at what the box office and DVD sales are going to bring in, around $750-800 million, I’d say he did his job well, very well.

So according to our source at Marvel, Jon was expecting a moderate bump in his fee for the sequel but apparently Marvel has other plans.

Our source continues that Maisel believes Iron Man 2 will be a success regardless of Favreau’s involvement and feels the studio does not need to pay Jon a higher fee for his services.

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All I can say is that Marvel is crazy on this one. Totally crazy.

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