Iron And Ants

Zathura helmer Jon Favreau will direct Marvel Studios' live-action comic book caper Iron Man. He insists that there will be minimal CGI in this telling of the tale. "The idea of using CGI and relying solely on that to tell your story, those days are past," he says. "I think that integrating practical filmmaking and augmenting it with CGI is the key to making it an emotionally involved story."

The news comes as part of a bigger slate announced by Marvel Studios in partnership with Paramount. Under the new deal, Blighty's own Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead) has been hired to direct and co-write Ant Man about a superhero whose special ability is controlling the minds of ant. You may scoff, but it comes in very handy on a summer picnic.