How A Guy’s Flickr Photo Ended Up in The Iron Man Movie

By Alex in Film on Dec 2, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Photo Credit: (above) Iron Man (below) Jeremy Keith of Adactio

Did you know that the movie Iron Man used a Creative Commons-licensed photo from Flickr? Here’s the story of how Jeremy Keith’s photo of his buddy Andy Budd in NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral ended up in the movie:

“Wait a minute”, I said. “What is this for?”

“It’s for a movie that’s currently in production called Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jnr.”

Holy crap! One of my photos was going to be in Iron Man? That certainly put a new spin on things.

“So I guess you want to use the picture because it’s inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building?” I asked.

“No. We just thought it was a picture of some warehouse or something.”

Read the whole story here: Link – via Flickr Blog

Tags: flickr, Iron Man, movie, nasa, Photography

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mando magazine
Dec 2nd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
it looks like they remastered it!!!
Mr. Binky
Dec 2nd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
So the people making Iron Man understood they didn’t have to pay him, offered him money anyway, and he refused? What a silly man!
jesseg
Dec 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Photoshop!
AndyIII
Dec 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
This is an interesting story in that by doing a CC license, he would have been paid handsomely for his photo. Odd way to go about making money.
xadrian
Dec 2nd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
My favorite part was saying he didn’t go see the movie right away.

Oh, and if cost $1,500 to be added to the credits, I’d have asked for $1,400 and called it a bargain. Seriously, dude.
LisaL
Dec 2nd, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Well good for the guy for not being greedy? Sounds like he already has plenty of money anyway…. talking about how much traveling he was doing and such.

Still a very neat story though.
red
Dec 2nd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Isn’t this the kind of thing where nasa could come along and say “yo dudes, you’re making money off our space ship assembly place, give us a piece of that”?
DOJ
Dec 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
cool story
Mike Harris
Dec 2nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
> “Isn’t this the kind of thing where nasa
> could come along and say “yo dudes, you’re
> making money off our space ship
> assembly place, give us a piece of that”?

I don’t think government agencies are allowed to claim copyright or trademark.
Adventurous Wench women tours
Dec 4th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Very neat! I wonder how many other movies featured images from flickr?
Rocky Rook
Dec 4th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Great cropping job of the very blurry bottom half of the shot. That red paneling or whatever it is, was photoshopped a bit.
Mark from under the sand
Dec 8th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Wow. I would love to have that. I have vectors and photos all over the place for the grabbing, and would love to see my work used in something of that caliber. That’s a great story.

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