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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RigaMortus2" data-source="post: 4618112" data-attributes="member: 11586"><a href="http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/01/07/iron-man-2-casting-rumors/" target="_blank">Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » Mickey Rourke Circling Iron Man 2</a>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?</blockquote>