So the advance word on the highly hush-hush opening of Iron Man 2 is flying as fast and furious as the early jet boot tests. You remember those, right? Funniest parts of the movie. But anyway, there’s plenty of interesting news and character bits going on with this one, which just goes to prove that in Hollywood these days, there’s really no such thing as hush-hush.
First off, advance word is that Downey will be coming back to handle Tony Stark. I think we’re all okay with this one being as he did such a bang-up job in the first place wavering between pretentious rich jackass and actual humanitarian. It’s safe to say they’re not even compatible roles, so doing both at once shows incredible range.
Second, new developments show that MIckey Rourke is at least potentially slated to play Crimson Dynamo, which is basically the Omega Red of the Iron Man series–a Russian Iron Man for those of you what don’t habla comics. Russia was a popular source for comic villains back in the seventies through much of the 20th century. This is probably a good development, as I don’t think Crimson Dynamo is going to be too big a stretch for the guy who handled Marv from Sin City.
Lastly, and perhaps most strangely, is that Sam Rockwell, formerly of Charlie’s Angels, is slated to play Stark rival industrialist Justin Hammer. Now, sure, he’s just come off the highly successful Frost / Nixon concept, but seriously–do we want to put Justin Hammer in the hands of the guy who played GUY FLEEGMAN on Galaxy Quest? Isn’t that a smidge of a stretch? Oh, sure, Galaxy Quest was a long time ago, and Rockwell could’ve easily grown since then, but I remain skeptical.
Thus, there’s a lot to like going into the 2010 release of Iron Man 2, and giving us plenty to look forward to.
March 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Roarke was right to hold out for more money; it’s Iron Man 2 — they can afford more than 250k