Iron Man — in case someone doesn't know — is a guy named Tony Stark, a billionaire and a weapon monger. While working for the government, he was captured by an enemy and forced to produce weapons for killing good guys (as opposed to killing bad guys, which happens a lot if one's working for the government). Killing good guys made Stark go slightly nuts, so he made a huge armor and became an Iron Man — an avenger of a kind, you know...
The movie features Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark//Iron Man, Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Stark's secretary, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Terence Howard as War Machine. Jeff Bridges plays the villainous Obadiah Stane, while the movie's supervillain is Mandarin who actually never appears on-screen being more of a Sauron, according to the director Jon Favreau. He will have another chance, actually, for Iron Man is planned as a trilogy (at least for now). So, the guys are in for a tough time.
The feel of the movie is expected to lay between Batman Begins, Tom Clancy's novels, James Bond franchise and RoboCop — that is how Favreau describes it. It could've been worse, I uses, because we really were facing a chance for Iron Man to be directed by no other that Quentin Tarantino. Back in 1999. Luckily, that didn't work out.
As for the character of Tony Stark, Robert Downey Jr. looks like not the worst deal too? Considering that both Tom Cruise and Nicholas Cage expressed interest in portraying Iron Man. Luckily again, that didn't came to being either.
Here you can watch Iron Man's official trailer.
