Fred Van Lente

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Comic Industry Insiders · Fred Van Lente on Setbacks, Second Chances, and Surviving as a Comic Book Writer · 19 Mar 2026 podcast

Uh and um and then the and then

They took the script, it ended up supercharging interest in the film project.

Robert Downey Jr.

got attached.

And uh I got a lot of annoyed looks at Marvel because that it actually fucked up the Iron Man two schedule because he is shooting starting on that.

Uh-huh.

And but uh so they finally came out with a book and so what happened was

Uh my editor called me up right foot because they go, Hey, you know, th they they want the script to be more serious and so they want to change a bunch of the dialogue.

And I was like, Oh, okay

Well, how when do you 'cause I was working for Marvel at that point.

Um, I'd already broken in.

And but this is how long it took.

So the

The script was during 2001.

My first Marvel work was in 2005.

And so now it's like 2008 or something like that.

2007 maybe.

I don't really remember.

And I was like, okay, cool.

Uh when do you want me to I mean I my schedule's kind of tight, but when do you want me to redo the dialogue?

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