Iron Man

[Phat Dizaztr]

I'm just saying.

[Abraham Smashington]

Well Howard I get. He didn't bring anything to the table in the first one, at all. Jackson could be asking for a shit load of money for another cameo and I get that, same with Rourke.

[Ari]

Then don't hire Rourke to play the baddie, get someone cheaper.

Or

Hire Rourke to play the main villain, and pay that fucker what he's worth.

[Abraham Smashington]

He is definitely the main villian then?

[nerdious dorkus]

Well Howard I get. He didn't bring anything to the table in the first one, at all. Jackson could be asking for a shit load of money for another cameo and I get that, same with Rourke.

But they both stated they weren't actually asking for more. And even then, fuck, the movie pulled in over $500 million.

[Ari]

Honestly I have no clue. But if they hire him, then why not make him the main villain? He's fucking great.

[nerdious dorkus]

I believe he is because Rockwell was casted as Hammer.

[Phat Dizaztr]

BLAH BLAH blah. Enough with the speculation of your rumors Nerdious. You are saying things that are not direct quotes or statements man. Get me some hard facts. You know I need the hard facts, no limp ones.

[PHEDG]

Mickey Rourke Signs For Russian Villain Role In 'Iron Man 2'

He may not have won the Oscar, but Mickey Rourke is taking his nomination to the bank. I just heard that ICM has scored its second casting deal for Marvel's Iron Man 2. After at first being low-balled by the studio to the tune of $250K, Rourke has signed on for the role of the Russian villain in the sequel after his agent David Unger got the quote up to a "significant" level despite this punishing economic climate where the studios are taking advantage of talent. (No wonder Mickey kept thanking Unger so profusely in acceptance speeches for the BAFTA, Golden Globe, Spirit, and other awards.) But don't expect Marvel to confirm any of this: they won't until all the i's are dotted and t's crossed on the contracts. I can also tell you that Sony was considering hiring Mickey to play the villain in Spider-Man 4. Rourke happens to be in Russia this week promoting Fox Searchlight's The Wrestler, and I hear he'll start researching his new role immediately there. Marvel did the same thing to ICM's Toni Howard client Samuel L. Jackson. The studio low-balled him, but then eventually came up a lot and locked in a long-term commitment for Jackson to play Nick Fury in as many as 9 Marvel films, including Iron Man 2.

......

[Ari]

I'll be more than happy to see Rourke in this, but Scarlett as Black Widow doesn't seem to work like Emily Blunt did.

[PHEDG]

...And Iron Man 2, in which he plays Tony Stark's tattooed Russian nemesis, Ivan, is possibly the biggest movie yet in Rourke's new career. For Rourke this means going to Russia, drinking vodka and visiting jails to study prison tattoos and find his character's tics. "I decided to do half my role in Russian," he beams, "and that's hard because the Russian language doesn't roll off the English-speaking tongue very easily. I spent three hours a day with a teacher, and after two weeks I know four sentences! Let me see, it's sort of like... 'Yezzamee menya... Yezzamee manya obott... Er, nemaboootty menya...'"

This goes on for quite some time. "It means," he says, finally, "If someone kills me, don't wake me up, because I'd rather be dead than live in your world."

But the land of blockbuster movies is not somewhere Rourke plans to stay long. "I'm not gonna rush out and see the next Batman, I'm not big on formula movies. I don't like all that Spider-Man shit."

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[Abraham Smashington]

[Ari]

Fuck. YES!

[Captain Russ]

Man, the bag ladies downtown are getting pretty fucking serious...

[gravedigger]

I'm pretty sure this movie is going to rock my face off.