Director Jon Favreau tells fans on his Myspace that contrary to what Terrence Howard said this week, filming will not be ready to begin in March on Iron Man 2 and that he is concerned that the April 2010 release date branded out by Paramount/Marvel is too “unrealistic”.

It’s been five weeks since the one and only phone call my reps have gotten from Marvel. I know their hands are full with the Hulk and I’m sure they will get into it shortly, as they tell me they intend to. I ran into the Marvel guys at the Hulk premiere and everyone sounded eager to get to work on IM2.

I am concerned, however, about the announced release date of April 2010. Neither Robert nor I were consulted about this and we are both concerned about how realistic the date is in light of the fact that we have no script, story or even writers hired yet. This genre of movie is best when it is done thoughtfully and with plenty of preparation. It might be better to follow the BB/DK, X/X2 three year release pattern than to scramble for a date. It is difficult because there are no Marvel 09 releases and they need product, but I also think we owe it to the fans to have a great version of IM2 and, at this point, we would have less time to make it than the first one.

He answers a few more questions which you can read HERE but it’s openly obvious that they have no script and have barely sat down to discuss a sequel since the movie opened six weeks ago.

I’m sure these comments won’t go down well with Marvel. They very much want the sequel to be done by April 2010 otherwise it could disrupt their plans for the Thor, Captain America and then Avengers movie which are all tightly scheduled around each other.

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