* Favreau announced that The Mandarin will be his villain.

* Favreau noted that Foggy Nelson, who in played in 2003’s Daredevil, did represent Tony Stark from time to time. "I’m not going to say anything’s going to happen," Favreau said. "And that’s if I don’t play Iron Man," he added to laughs.

* Favreau said until now the technology hasn’t been available to present Iron Man doing the things that Iron Man does in the comics.

* Favreau on his MySpace page about the film: "At first it was interesting. But it became like drinking out of a fire hydrant."

* Favreau introduced Iron Man artist Adi Granov, of whom he said everybody told him should be involved. Granov was the artist of teaser image displayed by Marvel.

Favreau noted it wasn’t the final design and was "kind of mysterious," but the that he wanted to do something or Comic-Con, even two years out from the film’s release.

"We wanted to show that our hearts are in the right place and that Adi’s vision is definitely going to be explored," Favreau said. "We have other artists generating a lot of different ideas. As our all know, what’s wonderful about Iron Man is that there are a lot of different suits, different looks. But it points us in the direction our intention is."

* Granov said the fact that Favreau is looking to the comics is a good sign for the film.

* Favreau on the armor: "There’s sort of a Robocop type quality that his character has, especially with the Granov design, which feels very tech-based and not organic. I like the idea of mass and weight and power, and not martial-arts Power Ranger fighting."

* Favreau said he’s one of the toughest critics when it comes to CGI — "It takes me out of the movie most of the time. I feel like I’m watching somebody play a video game — but he looks at a projects like King Kong, Battlestar Galactica and Firefly where it’s succesfully done.

"There’s one tech-based suit that breaks this movie out of reality," he said. "So we’re trying to strike a balance with the tone. It’s not a fantasy film, but then again it’s Tony Stark, so it has to have a little James Bond, too."

* Favreau said he’s trying to make the film real so "that the only ’buy’ you have to make is a flying Iron Man suit."

* Asked if he’ll deal with Tony’s alcoholism, Favreau said Iron Man is a character "who is on the world stage" and for now that’s enough to deal with. He said that later, when Tony deals with those stresses, the drinking issue can come up.

"When you think about it, it didn’t come up in the book for decades," he noted.

* Favreau said Tony will start with the gray armor. "If he builds it in captivity, he can’t build a Lamborghini in a cave," he said. "And then I think we go through a few different sets, eventually moving to the gold and red and it will evolve into a weapons platform."

* About a Daredevil sequel, Avi Arad said, "In time, we hope to get back to it. We loved the movie and were very proud of it."