How long does it take to write a script when you're also the director and the title character? For actor/director/screenwriter Jon Favreau, the answer is 10 days if you're talking about his upcoming feature about cooking. More specifically, the comedy is about a top chef who loses his job and is forced to work his way back from the bottom, Entertainment Wise reported.

With him, Favreau, most recently the director of the "Iron Man" series, will bring Scarlett Johansen, Robert Downey, Jr. (who hasn't been in a non-action film since 2011's "Due Date"), and Sofia Vergara.

"Chef," as the film will be called, represents a much needed change from the robotics of "Iron Man." Favreau compared directing another sequel to "doing a Christmas movie after Elf."

"By the time I was done with the second one, it was four years back-to-back, and it wasn't user-friendly then," Favreau told the Daily Beast. "On the one hand, it was incredibly fulfilling, and on the other, it feels like it's already been set up and my work is done, and now it needs to continue to build off of that".

In addition to "Chef," set to release sometime in 2014, Favreau is also working on a live action remake of the "Jungle Book," according to Entertainment Wise.

"There's unbroken ground there," he said of the "Jungle Book." "I find that a lot of the big movies I'm being asked to do now are sequels-continuations of other franchises that have already been established-and to me, I'm better off as the Marine who gets in there first. I'm better at coming up with the idea for a McDonald's than managing a McDonald's".

Based on that logic, it may be a blessing in disguise that he was passed over for directing the seventh episode of "Star Wars," expected to come out in 2015.