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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Afghan actors, Afghan film directors, Afghan films, Dari-language films, Films set in Afghanistan, Films shot in Afghanistan, Pashto-language films, Iron Man, The Kite Runner, Son of a Lion, Rambo III, The Man Who Would Be King, 16 Days in Afghanistan, The Beast, List of Afghan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Osama, Workingman's Death, The Black Tulip, Brothers, Aryan Khan, Atiq Rahimi, Malek Shafi'i, Sonia Nassery Cole, In This World, Afghan Star, List of Pashto-language films, List of Afghan films, Youssof Kohzad, Siddiq Barmak, The Frontier Gandhi, Opium War, Afghan Breakdown, Earth and Ashes, Mithaq Kazimi, Abdul Wahid Nazari, BASA Film, Mamnoon Maqsoodi, Jawed Wassel, Kaleem Shah, The Horsemen, Barefoot to Herat, Haseena Atom Bomb, Yousuf Khan Sher Bano, Pekhawaray Mardanay, In Foreign Land, Yaar Baash, Marina Golbahari, Ahmed Latif, List of Afghan actors, Latif Ahmadi, Said Worakzai, FireDancer, Wahed Nazari, Gumashtan. Excerpt: Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer who builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero, Iron Man. Gwyneth Paltrow plays his personal assistant Pepper Potts, Terrence Howard plays military liaison James Rhodes and Jeff Bridges plays Stark Industries executive Obadiah Stane. The film was in development since 1990 at Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, and New Line Cinema, before Marvel Studios reacquired the rights in 2006. Marvel put the project in production as its first self-financed film. Favreau signed on as director, aiming for a naturalistic feel, and he chose to shoot the film primarily in California, rejecting the East Coast setting of the co...