Nice Kevin Smith referencing… ;)

What dispute? Marvel’s Kevin Feige talked to IGN, debunking some rumors. “The only thing I’ll say is that not everything you read on the Internet is true, for sure,” Feige said … to this internet site. “Everybody knows that. In this particular case, the notion that… Let’s put it this way, here’s all I’ll say. Negotiations are actively ongoing, as they have been, and as they’ll continue to be, I hope for not much longer and we’ll get it all figured out. But the people behind the scenes at Marvel Studios I hope, I think, I hope should earn the trust of the fans from this summer. I mean these are the same people that made the decisions to make the films that are now in theaters that I think people like and enjoy, and those are the same people that are still making the decisions here. So if you’ve agreed with and enjoy the decisions they’ve made in the past you’re probably going to agree with the decisions they make in the future and all of the efforts are being put together now to ensure that we can go into our next film with all of the exact same pieces in place that led to the success of the first one.”

What about Favreau’s concerns about a 2010 release date? “That time period gives us about the same amount of time that we had on the first one. And frankly we spent so much time, we know who the cast is now, we know who the actors are, we know who the characters are, we know what the basic design of the suits and the world is. That was all stuff that we had to figure out from scratch on the first one. All that R&D is done. That gives you a huge advantage going forward. But I’m actually very confident, and anything’s possible, but I’m very confident in those timetables simply because we’ve done it before. We had this exact amount of time going from ‘Spidey 1′ to ‘Spidey 2,’ and I believe ‘Spider-Man 2′ is one of the best sequels we’ve ever made. And that’s certainly what we’re setting out to accomplish with the next ‘Iron Man’ film.”

Realistically, yeah the date Marvel wants is unrealistic. Like Favreau says, there is no Marvel Studios movie for 2009 which makes 2010 a very important target for them.

I can onlh hope that Marvel Studios and Favreau work something out and that Iron Man 2 would get pushed back to a possible fall/winter 2010 release.

Also with the shadow of a SAG strike on the horizon, everything is going to get pushed back anyways.