{"id":2341,"date":"2009-01-07T23:48:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T04:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:50:35","slug":"rourke-and-rockwell-slated-for-iron-man-ii-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/07\/rourke-and-rockwell-slated-for-iron-man-ii-villains\/","title":{"rendered":"Rourke And Rockwell Slated For IRON MAN II Villains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mickeyrourke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2342\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" title=\"mickeyrourke\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mickeyrourke-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"mickeyrourke\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Well how&#8217;s this for irony?<\/p>\n<p>No sooner do I get home from being impressed by Mickey Rourke&#8217;s performance at a screening of <strong>The Wrestler<\/strong> than I find the news that he has beenin talks to star in <strong>Iron Man 2<\/strong> opposite Robert Downey Jr. as one of the film&#8217;s villains. Exactly which villain is not exactly clear, though. <em>Variety<\/em> is reporting that Rourke will be playing Whiplash, while the <em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em> is stating that he will be the Crimson Dynamo. Both outlets are reporting that the character will be a Russian arms merchant similar to Downey&#8217;s Tony Stark\/Iron Man, who dons his own superpowered suit of armor. Either way, he&#8217;ll be helped in his villainy by Sam Rockwell, who is in talks for a role in the film as Justin Hammer, an industrialist rival of Stark&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>After watching Rourke this evening and having been a long time fan of Rockwell&#8217;s, my anticipation for this film has just shot even higher. I don&#8217;t think either of them at this point in their career would take a part simply for the paycheck, so their participation strikes me as a very good omen. My only caveat is that I would hate for the second film to be a rehash of the first film&#8217;s &#8220;two guys in armored suits beat the crap out of each other&#8221; storyline.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, director Jon Favreau is working with <strong>Tropic Thunder<\/strong> writer Justin Theroux to get the sequel&#8217;s script into shape for a spring production start. <strong>Iron Man 2<\/strong> is scheduled to hit screens on May 7, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Well how&#8217;s this for irony? No sooner do I get home from being impressed by Mickey Rourke&#8217;s performance at a screening of The Wrestler than I find the news that he has beenin talks to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/07\/rourke-and-rockwell-slated-for-iron-man-ii-villains\/\" title=\"Rourke And Rockwell Slated For IRON MAN II Villains\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[7868,21,31,22,1224,1033,682,24],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"category-news","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-casting","10":"tag-comics-and-film","11":"tag-in-development","12":"tag-iron-man-ii","13":"tag-mickey-rourke","14":"tag-sam-rockwell","15":"tag-sequel"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}