By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Paramount Pictures, IESB
Iron Man
While everybody is looking to Jon Favreau for the Iron Man sequel, it must be noted that the director has not officially boarded the project; no papers have been signed. Why so? Considering that the first installment will likely end up shy of a billion after DVD and network sales, there has got to be something happening from the inside that has prevented Favreau from signing the necessary paperwork.
But what?
Favreau Not Signed on to Direct Iron Man 2
Understandably so, it would seem that Favreau has put in a request for a higher pay check to do Iron Man II. Can't blame him, considering that his payment for Iron Man was below the average. The good people at IESB have been informed from an inside source that Marvel chairman David Maisel is being a cheapass.
About a week ago, the IESB was tipped off by a junior source at Marvel Studios that there had been some delays with Jon's negotiations regarding the sequel. When asked why I was told that Marvel and Favreau hadn't been able to come to terms regarding money.
At first I thought my source was full of shit and I dismissed it as a rumor. 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.
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.
What does the Marvel chairman have in mind? Possibly looking somewhere else, that's what. Check out the entire report here.
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