Iron Man 2 casting

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Release: May 7, 2010
Studio: Marvel Entertainment
Director: Jon Favreau
Screenplay: Justin Theroux (Tropic Thunder)
Filming: April 2009

CAST:

Tony Stark/Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr.

Pepper Potts: Gwyneth Paltrow

Col. 'Rhodey' Rhodes: Don Cheadle (? War Machine too ?)

Nick Fury: Samuel L. Jackson (DA' MAN!!)

Justin Hammer: Sam Rockwell (Tony's rival & financier to baddies)

Ivan/Whiplash: Mickey Roarke (male version from Ultimate Iron Man)

Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: Scarlett Johansson

Hawkeye: not announced (God knows which one)

Mandarin: not announced

Howard Stark: Tim Robbins (Tony's father)

Jarvis: Paul Bettany (voice: the lab computer)

 

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They're going to fit all of that into two hours?

 

[drwayne]

They're going to fit all of that into two hours?

Superficial treatment of important characters?

I wonder how the economy and the poor performance of the Hulk has impacted their plans for
rolling out a series of these movies (Thor, Captain America, Avengers etc.) over the next several
years?

Wayne

(Hawkeye during his phase as the second Giant Man/Goliath? Probably not)

 

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They're going to fit all of that into two hours?

Superficial treatment of important characters?

I wonder how the economy and the poor performance of the Hulk has impacted their plans for
rolling out a series of these movies (Thor, Captain America, Avengers etc.) over the next several
years?

No, more likely a longer movie...but not 3 hours. Also remember that some of those characters may be making short appearances in prep for Iron Man 3 and the Nick Fury and Avengers movies. All told Samuel L. alone is signed up for at least 9 movies.

Poor performance? :roll:

Incredible Hulk made $264,000,000 with a budget of $150 million, so it did pretty damned good. DVD/BR sales were #1 for quite a while and rentals did very well too.

Average score at RottenTomatoes.com was 66, middling but still respectable, and scored a B+ on BoxOfficeMojo - also respectable for the genre.

Effect on the others? Made them even more likely to get big budgets.