Marvel Called J J Abrams For Help With First Iron Man Update

Marvel Called J.J. Abrams For Help With First ‘Iron Man’ [UPDATE]

By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2013 1:30 pm EST

Is there anything J.J. Abrams isn’t doing? Star Trek? Check. Star Wars? Check. Television shows? Check. Video games? Maybe. And now, it seems he even might have had a minor influence on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In a new interview with Robert Downey Jr. (not ours, that’ll be up Thursday) Downey revealed that, in the same way he and director Jon Favreau talked to Shane Black for some help in the first Iron Man film, the group contacted also Abrams for some suggestions on the third act of the original Iron Man. Read the quote below.

Here’s what Downey said in a roundtable attended by IGN (thanks to Comic Book Movie for the heads up). The question was in regards to the creative collaboration between himself, and the co-writers Shane Black and Drew Pearce:

Did you know that Abrams consulted on the film? What specifically do you think he helped with?