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Jon Favreau was born on October 19, 1966 in Queens, New York. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and attended Queens College and worked on Wall Street before moving to Chicago to pursue a career in stand-up comedy.
While in Chicago, Favreau landed his first film role, as the pudgy tutor D-Bob in the sleeper hit Rudy (1993). Favreau would meet
Vince Vaughn—who also played a role in this film—during the shooting of this film. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he made his breakthrough in 1996 as an actor-screenwriter with the film Swingers—a film that certainly was "money," and which also brought Vaughn much fame as the glib and over-confident Trent Walker, a perfect foil to Favreau's heartbroken Mike Peters.
The next year, he appeared in the college film PCU alongside
Jeremy Piven, and also stepped into the world of television to play a guest role in several episodes of the sitcom Friends. He rejoined Piven in 1998 as part of Very Bad Things (1998), and later appeared in Love & Sex (2000), co-starring
Famke Janssen. Favreau got some screen time as a lawyer in the 2003 blockbuster Daredevil (2003). He guest-directed an episode of the college dramedy Undeclared in 2001.
Also in 2001, he made his (film) directorial debut with another self-penned screenplay, Made
. Made once again teamed him up with his Swingers co-star
Vince Vaughn but it somehow lacked the spark that made
Swingers so interesting and enjoyable. In the fall of 2003, he scored his first financial success as a director, the hit comedy Elf starring
Will Ferrell.
Jon now has a TV series called Dinner for Five which airs on the cable TV channel IFC.
He has a son, Max, born July 25, 2001, and a daughter Madelaine born April 2003.
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MoviesThe Incredible Hulk
Starring:
Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell
Review:
First, a little scorekeeping: Ang Lee's thoughtful, Freudian
Hulk in 2003 was nowhere near as bad as its rep. And Louis
Letterier's proudly pea-brained The Incredible Hulk is
nowhere near incredible. In fact, in its rush to deliver a constant
rush of action it forgets to think at all. But the latest spin on
the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods. I like what
Marvel is doing since it took over its franchise business from
Hollywood starting with Jon Favreau's smart and splendid Iron
Man. The overqualified casting of Robert Downey, Jr., Jeff
Bridges, Terrence Howard and Gwyneth Paltrow paid mucho dividends,
as it does in The Incredible Hulk.
Edward Norton is the ideal livewire to plug into the role of
Bruce Banner, the scientist with such a fire inside that his rage
takes...
Rating:
2.5 Stars
Published: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:08:06 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the articleMoviesIncredible Hulk
Starring:
Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell
Review:
First, a little scorekeeping: Ang Lee's thoughtful, Freudian
Hulk in 2003 was nowhere near as bad as its rep. And Louis
Letterier's proudly pea-brained The Incredible Hulk is
nowhere near incredible. In fact, in its rush to deliver a constant
rush of action it forgets to think at all. But the latest spin on
the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods. I like what
Marvel is doing since it took over its franchise business from
Hollywood starting with Jon Favreau's smart and splendid Iron
Man. The overqualified casting of Robert Downey, Jr., Jeff
Bridges, Terrence Howard and Gwyneth Paltrow paid mucho dividends,
as it does in The Incredible Hulk.
Edward Norton is the ideal livewire to plug into the role of
Bruce Banner, the scientist with such a fire inside that his rage
takes...
Rating:
2.5 Stars
Published: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:08:06 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the articleLiteratureFavreau Wary Of Iron Man 2 Date
A day after Iron Man star Terrence Howard told Military.com that he expected to be working on the sequel in March of 2009, director Jon Favreau posted a note to fans on his message board that the rumored release date of April 2010 "seems unrealistic."
Published: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:00:00 GMT - Source: Scifi.Com - Read the article
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