Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2
Posted on January 12, 2009
Filed Under Actors, Directors, Rumors
Another year, another post. To start the week, and this year, I was thinking… Mickey Rourke. Let’s write something about Mickey. I think Rourke surprised us all last year with “The Wrestler“. Where did that come from? The movie itself wasn’t all that spectacular but Mickey’s performance was brilliant. I took many years but now I’m convinced – he’s got true talent.
Anyway, Dark Horizons reports that Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell are in talks with Paramount Pictures to play the roles of two villains in the Iron Man sequel.
Rourke, currently undergoing a resurgence thanks to critical acclaim for his “The Wrestler” performance, would play the Crimson Dynamo. The character is a heavily tattooed Russian arms dealer who battles the superhero in a nuclear-powered suit of armor that can control electricity.
In the comics the character is tricked into defecting to the US and went to work for Stark, forcing the Soviets to send KGB assassin Black Widow after him. What’s interesting here is that the Black Widow character has also been rumored to appear in the sequel.
Meanwhile though it’s not confirmed, Rockwell is tipped to be playing Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire British businessman and a rival of industrialist Tony Stark.
There you have it. Rourke as a Russian arms dealer. I’m a bit disappointed. This sounds like at typical Rourke-part. Sad. I’d rather see him do some Jane Austen or something. Give him a challenge. Let him shine.
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i swear, if not for the scarring, Mickey Roarke would look exactly like Kiefer Sutherland right now