‘Iron Man 2′ Shoots Footage At Edwards Air Force Base
May 28, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
I’m not sure if you know that the new Transformers movie worked with the Pentagon on some technological issues, but Steven Spielberg is a pretty powerful guy. Another summer tentpole movie also recently leaned on the government, with Iron Man 2 shooting at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
It’s far from the first time Edwards has been used – and in fact, the first Iron Man spent a couple days there – and given that Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) deals in weapons contracts, it makes sense for the sequel to wind up there, too.
“Edwards has a long association with Hollywood,” said Col. William Thornton, 412th Test Wing commander. “We have just about every aircraft in the Air Force’s current fleet, 360 days of good weather per year, which is great for filming, and a dessert terrain and landscape perfect for any scene of a deployment.”
Robert Downey Jr. In Armor On ‘Iron Man 2′ Set
May 8, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Iron Man 2 is currently in production in someplace called “southern California,” wherever that might be, and yesterday, Jon Favreau and company made use of Randy’s Donuts, an instantly recognizable landmark I first spotted in the video to Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” Of course, since I was just a kid, I thought Randy Newman also owned the donut shop. How cool would that have been?
The famous donut shop is the site of a scene apparently inolving Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), with Stark lounging on top of the restaurant and making use of giant donut on the roof.
