Nobody seems to have officially signed for ‘Iron Man 2,’ according to director Jon Favreau. In all his interviews he talks like is currently been left in the dark by Marvel. Or is he just playing his audience? Is he just trying to get a bigger paycheck after the first success? Or does Marvel want some fresh blood and replace the director? Now that would be harsh.

In any case, Tony Stark’s buddy Terrence Howard is saying HE will be shooting ‘Iron Man 2′ March next year, according to an article at Military.com. This gives Marvel some time to get the final contracts ready. But with pre-production and all, I’d say at least the director should have signed this fall.

Every other day Marvel gives out some facts about their future plans. Do they still have to learn or do they just not care. They own the rights to every comic book figure anyway, so who should they fear? Marvel Vice Chairman Peter Cuneo spoke about Marvel’s future ideas at the Wedbush Morgan Securities Conference.

He says ‘Iron Man’ showed them how they don’t have to use high-profile characters to make a big hit. “Iron Man shows that we can take our lesser known characters, reach into the storyline of our comic books and make them into valuable, really, “brands” for us. Each of these characters becomes a brand that we can market.“

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Jon Favreau had some interesting remarks about ‘Iron Man 2′ on the Howard Stern show. First Stern managed to pull out the fact Jon Favreau got $4 million for directing ‘Iron Man’ plus a percentage of the movies’ profit. And secondly, Favreau still hasn’t signed on for part two. None of the actors have been officially confirmed either.

“They’ve all signed for three but it doesn’t work that way,” Favreau said. When a movie beats all expectations, contracts don’t mather anymore according to Favreau. He is basically saying the deals made before ‘Iron Man’ are now old, because the movie is making loads of money. He’s right, you don’t want to piss off Robert Downey Jr. at this point. But a contract is a contract. Even Edward Norton had to do ‘The Italian Job’ after signing a three picture deal before. Maybe Favreau is also looking for a bigger paycheck himself?