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

By Alex in Movies & SciFi 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


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  1. mando magazine
    Dec 2nd, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    it looks like they remastered it!!!

  2. 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!

  3. jesseg
    Dec 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Photoshop!

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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"?

  8. DOJ
    Dec 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    cool story

  9. 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.

  10. Adventurous Wench women tours
    Dec 4th, 2008 at 2:34 am

    Very neat! I wonder how many other movies featured images from flickr?

  11. 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.

  12. 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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