Jon Favreau Will Return To Marvel To Executive Produce Avengers: Infinity War

 

After directing Iron Man 2, Jon Favreau set his sights elsewhere, but still stayed close to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by serving as an executive producer on The Avengers, Iron Man 3, and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Now, with The Jungle Book proving to be a massive success, the filmmaker is making some room in his schedule to return to that world.

The filmmaker confirmed in a recent interview that despite not being involved with Captain America: Civil War, he’ll executive produce Joe and Anthony Russo’s Avengers: Infinity War. He said “I’m going to be executive producing the Avengers films with the Russo brothers, which I’m very excited about. I talk to them about it all the time. I’ve worked both in front of and behind the camera with Marvel and I really love what they’re doing right now. It’s a really exciting time to be over there. I’ve seen a rough cut of Civil War and it’s fantastic. We’re constantly looking for things to do together. And now I’m freed up”.

When asked what’s next for him, the director didn’t seem to want to commit to anything in particular right now saying “I’ve spent a big chunk of my career working on that already. All new titles are coming out now. I’m actually surprised I don’t feel that way about The Jungle Book already, but with Iron Man, I’d done two back to back. My time was completely monopolised for those years and I wanted allowed to explore other things. Part of the fun of having a successful movie is you get a lot of say on what your next project is. Sometimes you want to leave yourself open to other opportunities instead of another four or five years maybe working on that franchise”.