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Both Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell are in talks to join the cast of Jon Favreau's IRON MAN 2, as villains in time for a spring shooting start date!
{sidebar id=1}The Hollywood Reporter had the breaking news although Variety had a conflicting report, not denying the casting, but denying the role THR says Rourke is to play.
According to THR Rourke is set to play Whiplash and according to Variety he is set to play the Crimson Dynamo.
Both announcements are below,
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.
Rourke and Rockwell would be joining a cast that also includes the
returning Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle, who is replacing
Terrence Howard, making for one eclectically cast summer
blockbuster.
Another part -- one for Stark's assistant Natasha -- is still open.
The project is eyeing a spring start in Manhattan Beach. Paramount
will release the movie May 7, 2010.
From Variety,
In what would mark his first studio film since resurrecting his career with
"The Wrestler,"
Mickey Rourke is in talks to play the main heavy in "Iron Man 2," the
Marvel Entertainment sequel that director
Jon Favreau begins shooting this spring.
Sam Rockwell also has begun talks to play a villain in the pic, to be distribbed by
Paramount Pictures in summer 2010.
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.
Script is still being written by Justin Theroux, and Marvel has been trying to keep a wrap on details leaking out to fanboys. Funny, the announcement comes just days before the Golden Globe, sure to keep Rourke's name in the news.
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