Jared Axelrod

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Robert Downey Jr, as weapons manufacturer Tony Stark, poses that question in the visceral opening to IRON MAN. Stark goes on to say that you can have both, and indeed, that’s been the American Way since we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima

This summer’s other cinematic offering from Marvel Comics, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, tackles the atom bomb through an angry, green metaphor, but IRON MAN goes at it direct.

It’s not an unusual premise to hoist a superhero movie on—it was one of the many themes playing out in the over-stuffed SPIDER-MAN 3, for example—but Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, the writing team that also gave us last year’s CHILDREN OF MEN, having something more bleak in mind…

The Voice of Free Planet X theme was written and performed by Russell Collins of www.clockworkaudio.net.

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There’s a part of the horizon where the sand meets the sky, and the clouds look low and tangible. You can’t touch them—you know you can’t touch them, but they look so close. So ready.

“It’s a fool’s errand, you know,” the wise man says. “The air is for the birds, and the bees. To do otherwise would be something akin to madness.

But I stay here, and I try. I’ve built my wings of lighter and stronger material every time. And everytime I crash into the sand, I see that for a moment, the sand flies into the air too.

This is the first in a series of Site Specific Stories, impromptu fiction created in response to a specific environment. It was written and recorded at Jockey’s Ridge State Park.

The Voice of Free Planet X theme was written and performed by Russell Collins of www.clockworkaudio.net.