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07Jan2009

Rourke, Rockwell Join 'Iron Man 2'

DateWednesday, January 7, 2009 at 5:22PM
A year ago, you probably wouldn't have said, "You know who's going to blow up? Mickey Rourke." Of course, the year before that, you could've said the same thing about Robert Downey, Jr. And now both reformed bad boys will be in Iron Man 2.

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Rourke, within 24 hours of the announcement that he'll join Sly Stallone's The Expendables, will play "a tattooed Russian heavy named Ivan who becomes Whiplash, a man with deadly, technologically enhanced coils." Without giving away the entire script, which has been kept very hush-hush, this tells us quite a bit about where Marvel is heading. It also fits the casting sides we reported a month ago.

But that's not the only blockbuster casting for Iron Man 2. Sam Rockwell, kind of a slightly younger Downey in a lot of ways, has also signed on as the villainous multibillionaire Justin Hammer, one of Tony Stark's big rivals.

Hammer's a Brit in the comic, and not "super" in any way. He's just a bastard, really, which is so perfect for Sam Rockwell. As for Rourke, other reports - like this one at First Showing - say that he'll play a character that eventually becomes Crimson Dynamo, the villain most people believed was the next logical bad guy in the series.

There remains one part out there for Iron Man 2, and if they don't give Natasha aka The Black Widow to Olga Kurylenko, I'll really be scratching my head. I would expect an announcement about that soon, plus clarification on the Rourke villain, because Jon Favreau is putting this in front of camera in just a couple of months.

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Mickey Roarke has the evil villain look down pretty good without even trying

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