Jonathan Kolia "Jon" Favreau directed Iron Man and Iron Man 2.
He portrayed Happy Hogan in Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Spider-Man: Homecoming, a deleted scene of Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Deadpool & Wolverine.
He also portrayed an alternate Happy Hogan in the corporate advertisement Watch the Game.
He voiced an alternate Happy Hogan in the What If...? episode What If... Zombies?!, an alternate Happy Hogan in the What If...? episode What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?, an alternate Happy Hogan/Freak in the What If...? episode What If... Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?, and another alternate Happy Hogan/Freak in the What If...? episode What If... The Avengers Assembled in 1602?
He was an executive producer on Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame.
He was interviewed for the documentaries Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe, Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee, and the Assembled episode The Making of Black Widow.
Awards[]
- He was nominated for a Scream Award for Best Director for his work on Iron Man.
Trivia[]
- Before being hired to direct Iron Man, Jon Favreau was interested in directing Captain America: The First Avenger.[1]
- Jon Favreau expressed interest in directing The Avengers at one point. However, he ultimately remained only a producer on the film, saying "You need somebody who has the perspective of all the different franchises to bring them together, I have the myopic vision of just knowing and loving Iron Man."[2]
- Jon Favreau is the first Marvel Cinematic Universe director to play a part in the film he was directing.
- Jon Favreau is the father of Max Favreau, whom he worked again with in The Jungle Book.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Peter Billingsley in Made, Elf, Zathura: A Space Adventure, The Break-Up, and Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland, and worked with him again in Four Christmases, Couples Retreat, and Term Life.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Gwyneth Paltrow in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Kevin Feige and Avi Arad in Daredevil.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Stan Lee in Daredevil and Dinner for Five.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with J.J. Abrams and Paul Rudd in Dinner for Five.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Paul Bettany in Wimbledon and worked again with him in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Ahmed Ahmed in Swingers and Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Tom Morello in Made.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Sam Rockwell in Made and G-Force and worked again with him in Cowboys & Aliens.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Seth Green in Dinner for Five and Brother's Justice.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Yvonne Zima in Love & Sex.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Gary Weeks in Identity Thief.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Kenneth Choi, Aaron Lazar and Matthew McConaughey in The Wolf of Wall Street.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Michael Keaton in Speechless.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Idris Elba in The Jungle Book.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Peter Dinklage in Elf.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Ken Jeong in Couples Retreat and Zookeeper.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Michelle Pfeiffer in People Like Us.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Paul Rudd and J.K. Simmons in I Love You, Man.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Willem Dafoe and Thomas Haden Church in John Carter.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Rhys Ifans in The Replacements.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Jennifer Garner in Daredevil.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Robert Downey Jr. in Chef.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Leslie Bibb in Zookeeper.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Scarlett Johansson in Chef and The Jungle Book.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Garry Shandling, Ben Kingsley and Richard M. Sherman in The Jungle Book.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Sarah Halley Finn and Florence Kasumba in The Lion King.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Donald Glover in Solo: A Star Wars Story and The Lion King.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Hans Zimmer in The Lion King.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Terrence Howard in Term Life.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Bradley Cooper in Brother's Justice.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Taika Waititi and Harry Holland in The Mandalorian.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Kerry Condon, Tunde Adebimpe, and Alfred Molina in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Mary Zophres in The Mandalorian & Grogu.
- Jon Favreau portrayed Foggy Nelson in the 20th Century Fox production Daredevil.
- According to Charlie Cox, Favreau made a reference to his portrayal of Foggy Nelson in Spider-Man: No Way Home; however, it did not make the final cut.[3]
- Jon Favreau is one of the actors to portray characters for both Marvel Studios and DC Entertainment. He portrayed Assistant in Batman Forever.
- Jon Favreau wrote the short-lived Marvel Comics series, Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas.
- Jon Favreau also voiced Iron Man in Robot Chicken.
References[]
External Links[]
Jon Favreau on Wikipedia
Jon Favreau on IMDb
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