{"id":2520,"date":"2009-01-15T21:11:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T02:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:50:17","slug":"is-emily-blunt-about-to-join-rourke-rockwell-in-iron-man-2-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/15\/is-emily-blunt-about-to-join-rourke-rockwell-in-iron-man-2-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Emily Blunt About To Join Rourke, Rockwell In IRON MAN 2 Cast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-786\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px 3px; border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"emily-blunt6_314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/emily-blunt6_314-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"emily-blunt6_314\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>Iron Man 2 <\/strong>is shaping up to be a Marvel Comics fan&#8217;s dream. First, they get to see a live action War Machine. Then Crimson Dynamo. Then possibly Whiplash. Now, the sexy secret agent known as Black Widow is rumored to appear in the 2010 sequel, personified by <strong>The Devil Wears Prada<\/strong>&#8216;s Emily Blunt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111212050430\/http:\/\/www.variety.com:80\/article\/VR1117998515?refCatId=13\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>is reporting the Blunt is a front runner to play Russian spy Natasha Romanoff, who spends her free time as the black bodysuit clad femme fatale known as the Black Widow.\u00a0 She joins the previously rumored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/07\/rourke-and-rockwell-slated-for-iron-man-ii-villains\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell<\/a>, who are said to be in negotiations to play the aforementioned Iron Man villains Crimson Dynamo and Whiplash.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known whether the film Black Widow will be an ally or an enemy of Tony Stark. In the comics, she started off as a villain, but eventually became a hero. What is known that it appears that the film will\u00a0have a very Russian feel. Considering the first film was at least partially set\u00a0in Afghanistan, this opens a lot of possibilities for directions for the story \u00a0to go in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Iron Man 2 is shaping up to be a Marvel Comics fan&#8217;s dream. First, they get to see a live action War Machine. Then Crimson Dynamo. Then possibly Whiplash. Now, the sexy secret agent known <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/15\/is-emily-blunt-about-to-join-rourke-rockwell-in-iron-man-2-cast\/\" title=\"Is Emily Blunt About To Join Rourke, Rockwell In IRON MAN 2 Cast?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[23,250,173,31,1289,283,821,289,378,379,564,1033,169,682,24,759,288],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"category-news","8":"tag-casting-comics","9":"tag-comic-book-films","10":"tag-comic-book-movies","11":"tag-comics-and-film","12":"tag-emily-blunt","13":"tag-iron-man","14":"tag-iron-man-2","15":"tag-marvel","16":"tag-marvel-comics","17":"tag-marvel-productions","18":"tag-marvel-studios","19":"tag-mickey-rourke","20":"tag-rumor","21":"tag-sam-rockwell","22":"tag-sequel","23":"tag-the-devil-wears-prada","24":"tag-variety"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}