Casting rumors are in full swing for the new Iron Man sequel - with Sam Rockwell and Mickey Rourke apparently being added to the mix.
Rockwell is apparently being linked with Justin Hammer, Tony Stark's longtime corrupt business rival.
In comics, Hammer is much older than Stark, and is the head of Roxxon. He frequently (back in the eighties, it was virtually every other issue) employs supervillains in order to trash his enemies. More interestingly, he was also the man who first pushed Stark into alcoholism.Rockwell's a great actor and I don't really see any difference in making Hammer Stark's contemporary as opposed to an older statesman - it adds a different dynamic to the Stark/Stane already seen in the first movie and I can't wait to see Robert Downey Jr and Rockwell bounce off each other.
As for Mickey Rourke...well, some rumors say that he'll be a Russian gangster who becomes Whiplash (one of Hammer's frequent flunkies in the comics)...
...while other sources suggest that Rourke will actually be a Russian gangster who becomes the Crimson Dynamo.
...while other sources suggest that Rourke will actually be a Russian gangster who becomes the Crimson Dynamo.
The second rumor makes more sense, and I like it better - mainly because I always thought Whiplash was kind of lame and more than a little bondage-y, and bondage isn't something I like to think of when I think of Mickey Rourke.The Hollywood Reporter also notes that the role of Tony Stark's assistant, Natasha, has yet to be cast.
Doesn't Tony already have an assistant?
And isn't Natasha a familiar name?
5 comments:
The Crimson Dynamo?
ANOTHER guy in a robot suit of armour?
We already had Ironmonger.
I'd like to see Hammer as the villain.
I thought you didn't overload on villains until the third film. I'll be kinda disappointed if the budding Mandarin storyline is dropped for this combo, to be honest.
Is that Greg Land's Black Widow? His porn starish oeuvre gets a bit tired after a while.
I seem to be a minority in thinking the first film was a little under achieving.
It'd be great if the sequel could commit to a solid concept and, at most, support that with the growing demon of alcoholism.
I could go for a paranoid, Millar-esque, neo-Cold War film. Not sure if I'd want that overlapping too heavily with corporate espionage, though. That's going to get quite samey (and similarly brief)!
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