Guess who is being cast as the villains in Iron Man 2?
Answers after the jump!
Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell (loooooooooove him!) are in talks to star as the villains in “Iron Man 2,” being directed by Jon Favreau.
Marvel has been keeping a very tight lid on the script for the sequel, being written by Justin Theroux, but it is known that Rourke would play a tattooed Russian heavy named Ivan who becomes Whiplash, a man with deadly, technologically enhanced coils.
Rockwell would play Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire businessman and a rival of industrialist Anthony Stark, AKA Iron Man, being played by a returning Robert Downey Jr.
Rourke and Rockwell would be joining a cast that also includes the returning Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle, who is replacing Terrence Howard, making for one eclectically cast summer blockbuster.
Another part — one for Stark’s assistant Natasha — is still open.
The project is eyeing a spring start in Manhattan Beach. Paramount will release the movie May 7, 2010.
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