It's never too early to anticipate IRON MAN 2

New, improved and lacking Terrence Howard:

Jon Favreau is returning as director, and Downey is expected back as billionaire industrialist Stark/Iron Man. Gwyneth Paltrow also is expected to be back as Stark's assistant, Pepper Potts. "Iron Man 2" is scheduled for release on May 7, 2010[/q]

The Rhodes character is expected to play a larger part in the sequel

YES WAR MACHINE IN THIS ONE PLZ

good change, Terrence Howard always seemed like a bad fit for these kinds of movies.

these kinds of movies

popular?

lol (but yes)

My hopes for IMII:

1) lots of SHIELD nonsense
1a) more Clark Gregg than I can stand
1b) lots of HYDRA nonsense
2) Rhodey taking charge due to out-of-commission Stark
3) The Ghost!!
3a) maybe Living Laser too? :D

The fact that Favreau & Theroux & the producers had a sit-down w/ Matt Fraction (who's writing the hands-down best Iron Man book since forever and/or the Micheline / Bright / Layton Armor Wars days) is definitely a good sign.

the word I would've gone for would've been "fun," but "popular" works too.

i can't tell if you're pro- or anti-Clark Gregg there but for some reason i like him.

Totally pro!

If they could find roles for Patricia Clarkson, Sam Rockwell, Sarah Polley, and Stanley Tucci in addition to Gregg, I would start building an IM replica suit to wear to the premiere in Hollywood.

Damn they should've gotten Idris Elba instead of Cheadle :(

good change, Terrence Howard always seemed like a bad fit for these kinds of movies.

― some dude, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no way, he was awesome in iron man! one of my favourite things about the movie

^

Seriously. He was a good straight man to RDJ's Stark.

here, then, a baby wipe for your tears.

i shed no tears

then make terrence happy and use it on your ass.

i dont need a baby wipe for my tears, a tissue will do. baby wipe will just make my face all wet.

oh shit, xp--will use on ass

i lost my ass in WWII;_;

oops...I've said too much already

Justin Theroux is writing the screenplay.

???

also haha @ matt fraction sitdown

he co-wrote tropic thunder but i didnt realize he was turning into mr real screenplay guy

The Next Ben Affleck!

a baby wipe would sting your eyes, dudes!

well ya but would be wiping the tears from my cheeks, not from my actual eyeball

justin theroux does a good jesus:

hmmm..

http://chud.com/articles/articles/16704/1/IRON-MAN-2-RECASTING-IS-A-MYSTERY-TO-TERRENCE-HOWARD/Page1.html

in slightly related news:

the hulk dvd has the deleted captain america cameo (on the heels of cap's shield's cameo in iron man).
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/10/11/captain-america-officially-found-in-the-incredible-hulk/

in 2011 he will make the world safe for tumbling! srlsy stoked

just bear with me

they actually showed these on local TV in the early 90's? barely moving comic panel stills. way more diverting than say, shitty 90's x-men spiderman cartoons to be sure

probably posted on the last thread

Finke sez:

Mickey Rourke as the Russian villain

Scarlett Johannson as Black Widow.

Scarlet Johannson as a black widow.

nippin' at jolie's heels

A little bit of something:

Robert Downey Jr. is so darn excited about "Iron Man 2" that he almost jumped out of his seat while telling The Dish Rag about the new film at the tail end of his "Soloist" junket at the Four Seasons.

"We're working our [you-know-whats] off and we're two weeks in and we're very very happy," Downey says. "I live and breathe this, so I take it almost more seriously than a drama, because it was so successful and the people really responded to it, so I feel a huge onus (that means responsibility) to make it good."

He was on the set with director Jon Favreau this week. "We were doing a boxing scene and I just stopped at one point and it was just, everybody, this is the coolest cast on Earth, and they gave us a bunch of money and I get to suit up and look all macho," he marveled. "It's gonna be good."

can't wait.
iron man was a much better movie than anything marvel since, what, x-men 2?

not really setting the bar too high there

comic book movies are the only american films that get me even remotely excited.

also x-men 2 ruled, it was 3 that sucked.

parentheses Downey's own?

first one was okay, due almost entirely to the acting/cast (couldn't really care less about the actual action sequences).

I hope Modok is in this one lolz

The original was the most competent and most entertaining comic film of 2008 (no, not the overweight, unenlightening and unamusing PHIL 101 professor The Dark Knight), so definitely looking forward to this.

Plus, Mickey Rourke.

Heads up:

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/06/12/gal_whiplash.jpg

HOW has the Black Widow costume not leaked yet HOW

Apparently there's a huge party scene where DJ AM has a cameo as a DJ. It's at a nightclub, where Tony Stark is celebrating his birthday. And then Tony shows up in his Iron Man costume, and "all hell breaks loose." The music stops as everyone stares. And then Iron Man "busts a move to some acidic trance mega-mix."

I fear 'Spider-Man 3 dance scene' redux here.

I wonder if he will do the robot.

feeling the fear

Not sure if this photo is for real, but w0w:

http://www.latexallaccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/scarlett-johansson-black-widow.jpg

Not too sure about her being good for the role, but she's good for the costume.

shop/pixels

shop/MASSIVE HEID

Man what the hell did Garry Shandling do to his face?

this was fun, thankfully didn't take itself too seriously. dumb as all get-out, obv.

paltrow should have taken a $2m paycut in exchange for not being placed next to scarlett in any shot imo.

need more discussion of how good rockwell and rourke were in this- particularly in their first scene together.

rockwell having a huge amount of fake tan on his hands during this scene was just cracking me up.

Rockwell is always good but Hammer was pretty much the opposite of an interesting villain.

rockwell having a huge amount of fake tan on his hands
loved that! i will repeat that i also liked his obnoxious james brown shuffle during the expo.
rockwell's villain was more of a small penis villain than an evil russian genius villain.

Hammer was the opposite of an interesting villain! that struck me as totally the point- he was rubbish, very much the anti-stark. rockwell played it p deftly imo.

if anything, rockwell's dance moves were far too cool for the part.

i thought the point was that he was a phony, hence the spray tan

stark wannabe, imo- RDJ is verybrown.

just came back from this - thought it was awesome, better than the first one

kinda imagined gob when rockwell was doing the presentation on stage

man just realized jon favreau is GUTTER from PCU! can't believe GUTTER is the one behind these movies.

also the low-end on scarjo is... .-.

Man what the hell did Garry Shandling do to his face?

I was impressed at the make-up job tbh, he looks WAY worse and plasticy in informal photos these days!

paltrow should have taken a $2m paycut in exchange for not being placed next to scarlett in any shot imo.

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Friday, May 14, 2010 4:06 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i actually thought she was cuet and i don't usually LIKE like her that way

i enjoyed watching scarlett savagely beating those anonymous security dudes tho

rockwell stole the show 4 me in this even if he was playing the same character as avatar

If Paltrow confined herself to supporting parts like this and Two Lovers I'd be totally happy.

Rockwell was pretty hilar, admittedly

rockwell stole the show 4 me in this even if he was playing the same character as avatar

You mean he was similar to Giovanni Ribisi's character in Avatar?

hahaha how bad is it that i got them mixed up, but yeah, similar character as THAT GUY

Yeah agree that Rockwell was great. I kind of love him.

every gf i've ever had adores him. he very often strikes me as a spoof of tom cruise, only better.

loved him since he did a guest spot on the short-lived com central show stella as a fake mustache dealer

His dance in the Charlie's Angels movie firmly secured his crushworthiness. He's been building on that ever since.

WS, especially when he dances.

rockwell was def hilaire in this, great move to give Tony Stark a foil as comedy industrialist - more time for lols, less time for CGI robots punching each other

shouldnt rockwell be at that point where he should have an assistant or two apply all that fake tan to his person?

doesn't want anyone else to realise he's using fake tan

ok now we're overthinking it

it's too late to pop in and say "this was a fun movie!" right

yep. futile sb 4u.

every time I think of this movie I just think of scar-jo and pacino going "she's got a GREAT ASS!..."

she really does, which is something this movie made me aware of.

I love how seriously mickey rourke took playing his character

To prepare for his role as Ivan Vanko/Whiplash, Mickey Rourke paid a visit to Butyrka Prison, Moscow: "I tried to incorporate the whole Russian philosophy. It's a culture of its own and I really enjoyed doing the research and meeting the people and they were very gracious there at the prison." Rourke also recommended that half of Vanko's dialogue be in Russian, that he have a Slav accent, and that he keep a pet.

...

According to Mickey Rourke, he carried out a lot of research in Russia choosing what tattoos Anton Vanko should carry on his body. He wanted authentic Russian tattoos, which would represent Vanko's Russian heritage, prison societies, and special clubs he might be in.

rourke was decent in this, just by the time he comes back for the final fight it's just... oh, right, he has to show up. oh, it's over already! ok.

you know i marked out for Rockwell in Moon as much as anybody but he was wasted on a really bad character here. also true for scarlett johannson's ass

rourke lasted like FIVE SECONDS in the final fight, it was pathetic

they ran out of cgi money

rourke lasted like FIVE SECONDS in the final fight, it was pathetic

this was great, I was so bored of punching CGI robots already!

http://www.11points.com/Movies/11_Points_Review_of_Iron_Man_2

At some point, Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke have to laugh about how well things have worked out for them. Fifteen years ago, would anyone have believed that Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke would be headlining one of the biggest movies of the year? If you'd said you were seeing something starring those two, people would've assumed you were going to the Betty Ford Clinic's performance of "The Producers".

well they had to drop to comic books to do it, tbf

"if you had told oscar winner kevin spacey that he would one day have the chance to play lex luthor, he'd have pinched himself"

Liked this much more than the original.

The cast of smart alecks was a blessing.

Finally saw this. Original was wayyyy better but this at least avoided the huge dropoff where in the first one it was spectacular up until the final fight when it just became really dumb. Here the dumbness was a little more evenly spread out and the final fight, while pointless (those drones sure seem to go down easy, why doesn't he just shoot them all in the first place?) at least looked better and kept moving. Definitely wanted Rourke to get to do more, or alternately for his original plan (show Stark's vulnerability so other people finish his revenge for him) to actually go somewhere. Rockwell did a great job with his character but I wish that character had been on-screen less; he was SO annoying that the joy of watching the annoying guy get his take-down was sort of reduced. And he just gets led away by the cops? That's it?

Don't know what they're doing for the third one but I sort of hope this isn't the end of the alcohol storyline, which didn't really feel like a story in this one. It's less about Iron Man getting drunk and being a jackass once when he thinks he's gonna die, more about him being, you know, an alcoholic.

Overall, okay.

for some reason I really like impersonating Rourke's "I want my bird" line with that ridiculous accent

"my bird! I want my bird."

ROBOT ROCK

oh god, I think I blocked out that scene

I can't wait until Iron Man 2 comes out!

my bird