Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Yet more news on IRON MAN as it's about a month from rolling film. Joining Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, Gwenyth Paltrow as Pepper Potts and Terrence Howard as Rhodes is The Dude himself, Flynn in the flesh, The Fisher King and the Starman: Mr. Jeff Bridges.

He's playing an unnamed character that has long-time ties to Stark Industries, a close confidant of Tony Stark. I really hope this is some backhanded way of saying he's Mandarin. That would be so amazingly weird and bizarre casting, but then again so was Liam Neeson as Ra's Al Ghul. I'm sure that's totally not where this is going... sounds like a more apt comparison to BATMAN BEGINS would be to say that Bridges is playing the Morgan Freeman character.

Then again, that's just based on the little bit of info in the announcement. I love this cast so far. I really do. This has incredible potential.