Rourke and Rockwell Will Fight That Iron Man Guy

 

Mickey Rourke has gotten so popular since he started his wrestling career. Yesterday he joined the cast of Stallone’s The Expendables , and now he’s reportedly in talks to join Iron Man 2 as the film’s central villain, while Sam Rockwell may play a rival industrialist. From THR : Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell are in talks to star as the villains in “Iron Man 2,” being directed by Jon Favreau. Marvel has been keeping a very tight lid on the script for the sequel, being written by Justin Theroux, but it is known that Rourke would play a tattooed Russian heavy named Ivan who becomes Whiplash, a man with deadly, technologically enhanced coils. Rockwell would play Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire businessman and a rival of industrialist Anthony Stark, AKA Iron Man, being played by a returning Robert Downey Jr. So Mickey Rourke is playing Whiplash. Except Variety says the role is Crimson Dynamo: Which role Rockwell will play has yet to be disclosed by Marvel, but Rourke is in discussions to play the Crimson Dynamo, a heavily tattooed Russian arms dealer. He’s considered to be an evil version of Iron Man because he battles the superhero in a nuclear-powered suit of armor. Confusing! I think the only way to suss this one out is with blind speculation, Photoshopping, and comments that we won’t see the movie without Terrence Howard in it.

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Rourke and Rockwell Will Fight That Iron Man Guy

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