Mickey Rourke Circling Iron Man 2

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Future Oscar winner Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) is looking at playing either Whiplash or the Crimson Dynamo, according to The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, respectively. Sam Rockwell (Frost/Nixon) is also rumored to be up for the part of multi-billionaire villain Justin Hammer. As Variety describes the film version of 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.”

This is starting to sound like a David Micheline/Bob Layton story…

I love the idea of Rourke getting a role in Iron Man 2. He’s an incredible actor, and much like Robert Downey Jr’s career resurrection in the first movie, Rourke’s comeback after nearly letting his personal demons destroy his career will make for a nice feel-good sidebar story. Personally, I hope he ends up playing Whiplash, since we already saw Iron Man battling an armored foe in Iron Man 1. What do you think?

 

[Felon]

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Future Oscar winner Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) is looking at playing either Whiplash or the Crimson Dynamo, according to The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, respectively. Sam Rockwell (Frost/Nixon) is also rumored to be up for the part of multi-billionaire villain Justin Hammer. As Variety describes the film version of 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.”

This is starting to sound like a David Micheline/Bob Layton story…

I love the idea of Rourke getting a role in Iron Man 2. He’s an incredible actor, and much like Robert Downey Jr’s career resurrection in the first movie, Rourke’s comeback after nearly letting his personal demons destroy his career will make for a nice feel-good sidebar story. Personally, I hope he ends up playing Whiplash, since we already saw Iron Man battling an armored foe in Iron Man 1. What do you think?

I don't think the image of Iron Man fighting Whiplash translates well to live action, as much as I like that particular villain. One guy's in a mobile weapons platform that can knock holes through walls at Mach 2, and the other is....a guy with a whip. Fly high, lock on repulsors, and blast. What's hard about this? If you're gonna do Whiplash, might as well go ahead and use him for Hawkeye instead.

I think it's pretty natural for Iron Man to be fighting other guys in battlesuits. "Crimson Dynamo" was always a lame name, but how about Titanium Man?

 

[Fast Learner]

Mickey Rourke is on my list of "10 actors I least like," so I'm not too excited about that.

 

[megamania]

I had heard similiar rumors only BOTH Whiplash and Crimson was going to be in the movie. With War Machine appearing there has to be more villians to it.

Now, about Batman 3...... ?