In Marvel’s quest to replace Jon Favreau at the helm of the Iron Man franchise, they’re in talks with both an interesting and obvious choice: Shane Black, who ushered in a new era of action filmmaking with his script for Lethal Weapon.
The choice is interesting in that, as a writer-director, Black has only one film under his belt: the witty, tricky neo-noir thriller Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. It’s obvious because that film starred Robert Downey Jr. as a petty crook who winds up trapped in a Hollywood murder mystery in which he, improbably, is the detective.
