Following the critical and financial success of Iron Man over the last week, Entertainment Weekly spoke with director Jon Favreau and star Robert Downey Jr. about the prospect of doing  a sequel.

While Favreau concedes that there’s “no formal arrangement yet”, he also confirms that there’s definitely “a level of enthusiasm from myself and the cast to tell more stories” and “a lot of ideas that we all have now”. One such idea that seems to be compelling to all of them is the story of Tony Stark’s battle with alcohol.

“Demon in a Bottle is one of the very strongest story lines of the of the series, and Iron Man is not a comic book character who is known for having wonderful storylines. He’s known for having great suits, great characters, but the villains kind of get thin at times, and it’s so very dated when you look at Communism and the metaphor. Politically, much of it doesn’t hold up well. And the Mandarin is incredibly challenging in that respect. So we have challenges ahead of us.”

Favreau is also happy about The Avengers movie happening, which would see Iron Man team up with other Marvel superheroes such as The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America.

“I think it would be a very smart third film in the Iron Man series. It’s very difficult to keep these franchises from running out of gas after two [movies]. The high point seems to be the second one, judging by history: If you just look at the consensus in the reviews, you see that X-Men 2 and Spider-Man 2 are sort of seen by the fans as the sort of high point of both franchises, though I don’t necessarily agree with that. But to be able to fold it into an Avengers is something you just couldn’t do in another studio, and I think what Marvel is about is stuff you can’t do at a bigger studio.”

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