Looks like Marvel finally found a good director besides Sam Raimi to helm one of their flicks — Jon Favreau is set to start production on Iron Man early next year.

From Reuters/Hollywood Reporter:

Favreau, who appeared as “Foggy Nelson” in Marvel’s 2003″Daredevil” movie, most recently directed the effects-heavy family adventure movie “Zathura: A Space Adventure.” Notwithstanding that picture, his sensibilities have been to eschew computer-imaging in favor of an almost retro aesthetic, but “Iron Man” will see him changing his tune.

“I’ve always been very reticent to use CGI to the extent that it has been used by other filmmakers,” Favreau said in an interview. “I think that now, through motion-capture and the integration of miniatures with CGI, like in ‘King Kong,’ I’m starting to be a lot more convinced by what the technology can do. But the idea of using CGI and relying solely on that to tell your story, those days are past. I think that integrating practical filmmaking and augmenting it with CGI is the key to making it an emotionally involved story.”

Elf and Zathura are two of the better live-action family flicks from the last few years, so this could be interesting. Anyone know if Favreau’s still doing the John Carter movie…?

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