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The Dude says this aggression will not stand and joins forces with IRON dude... sir... MAN!!!
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.
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can't get any better than jeff bridges.
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That rug really tied the room together.Seriously, though, Jeff Bridges is one of my favourite actors. For a start, he's The Dude (el Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing), plus you've got Fearless, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Fisher King. Even if they weren't great films, Bridges was brilliant in Tucker and Wild Bill.Is it just me, or does this Iron Man keep getting more and more exciting? Keep up the good work, Jon Favreau out of Swingers.
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It could happen... "Nobody *effs* with the Jesus."
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If that's the case then I hope he isn't just used in flashbacks. Too many flashbacks fucking ruin suphero movies (hello Daredevil!). Even if not, still awesome casting whatever the role, just because he is Jeff Bridges and Jeff Bridges is The Dude and therefore the most awesome thing ever.
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Seriously, when it was first announced, I didn't give a shit about an Iron Man - Movie.
But with a cast like this, I'm there.
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hey, it's a marvel-produced flick. maybe fury's making a cameo.
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Upon reading your post for the first time I laughed until a renegade sunflower seed (yes I'm a "seeder") made it's way down the back of my throat...where it decided to stay...as I choked.
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Megatron -"My face has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina"
The Dude - "God damn you Michael Bay! You fuckin' asshole! Everything's a fuckin' travesty with you, man!" -
That's fuckin' ingenious, if I understand it correctly. It's a Swiss fuckin' watch.
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How in the hell is this ever going to make sense with my responding posts appearing above (and before according to the time listed) the post I responded to?
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The casting (as it stands now) is so kick ass because Iron Man will be "the first feature film to be produced independently by Marvel Entertainment."
Marvel is breaking the ice with this movie, and they're going big. Too bad Marvel Ent. is doing so with Iron Man instead of that big trilogy of WTF on film called X-Men. -
Oh, and rug peers did not do this Marmoset.
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You wouldn't be the first guy I've made choke on seed...
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Jeff is great as always.
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...being prepared to do the right thing? Whatever the price? Isn't that what makes an Iron Man?""Sure. That and a pair of iron testicles."
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you're going to have to realize the fact that you're a god damn moron.
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"Nihilists, Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of national socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."
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...Sal Kennedy. If you are going 'who?', is a character from Warren Ellis' run (issues #1-6 of the current Iron Man series), so it's quite new and not a mainstay like Rhodey or Pepper.
Elis ret-conned Stark's story introducing Sal like a mentor-guru for Tony, someone who talked him into pondering the ethical implications of his work on weapons.
Jeff Bridges has the right age for the character, and... Sal was drawn like a long-haired, bearded, hawaiian shirt-wearing guy who happily talked about using home-made mushroom drugs just to feel their effects.
'The dude' himself, just lacking the cursing.
If my english sucks, sorry. I'm spanish.
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Damn you Michael Bay
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For a superhero film called IRON MAN, to have such talented actors on board is just beyond awesome. The only thing that has me concerned is whether Favs can pull this off visually, but I'm rooting for him! You go Foggy! Also, that logo on the website has to be changed.
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I was thinking it might be Sal Kennedy as well. Just couldn't remember the characters name. He is very Dudelike.
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I don't remember Jeff Bridges being in Serenity...
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That's funny, I figured this to be the case when they announced Robert Downey, Jr. was playing Stark. I can only imagine that the addition of Flynn to the cast can do nothing but improve this film's box office draw...
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No funny stuff!
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Great news. Apart from Paltrow this is a great cast.
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I am keeping an open mind on this and am hopeful of a steller movie, especially with the actors involved.Metalwater, how exactly if Jeff Bridges the 'kiss of death'?
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Feb 06, 2007 6:18:26 AM CST
That prototype armor really tied the room together...
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Shit Bridges is in this too? Can't wait to see this.
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He's more of a man's man too.
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Bridges might be his father is my guess.
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I'm calmer than you are...
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What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
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You can think of it as he's the curse of bad movies, but more likely it's just that he picks bad movies to be in. And I might be wrong about this, but I don't think The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, or The Big Lebowski tanked at the box office. But generally speaking you are right about his choices of films. Wait till Iron Man comes out before condemning it.
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1 - The chameleon type who can play different characters.2 - The type who basically play themselves but always nail the emotion and believability.3 - Those rare bastards who can do both.Me, I'd put Bridges mostly in the second category, but that does not make him a bad actor. Jack Nicholson, for example, has made a very good career out of playing Jack Nicholson (not to mention bagging three oscars), and I'd happily watch him in any old garbage. Same goes for Bridges, as far as I'm concerned.
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please Asian American
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I like the guy, but I don't see him as the Mandarin. Prolly gonna play another role.
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C'mon! Good flick and Jeff plays the neurotic part well.
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she kidnapped herself
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Just to name a few: BIG LEBOWSKI: budget $15m, gross $17m (US), 28m worldwide ARLINGTON ROAD: budget $21m, gross $24m (US), $41m worldwide THE FISHER KING: budget $24m, gross $42m (US) STARMAN: budget $20m, gross $29m (US) THE CONTENDER: budget $9m, gross $18m (US) SEABISCUIT: budget $84m, gross $120m (US), $148m worldwide So, maybe "MetalAss"...err..."MetalWater" can tell me again what he meant by saying that movies with Jeff Bridges in it fail at the b.o.
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"Seabiscuit," "Winter Kills," "Thunderbolt And Lightfoot," "Hard Driver("Last American Hero")," "Rancho Deluxe("Mr. Bob Dog")," the underrated, "Cutter's Way(Billy Drago's first film as a garbageman. Blink and you miss him!)" and the classic "Fat City." Personal guilty pleasure movie, "8 Million Ways To Die." Worst movie ever made, but the check cashed:" "Someone Is Killing Her Husband." A movie so bad, that when I was an assistant manager at a local theater, we had one patron in the audience at the 8:00 PM show!(It was Ralph Waite; the dad from "The Waltons!" How weird was that?!) Plus, Jeff Bridges is cool in person. So there.
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I still feel Downey is too old for Iron Man. Maybe Downy just needs to do a little exercise. He looks more like 48 at times, not 42. By the time a sequel comes around, he will be 48. I wouldn't mind some who can do a few of there own stunts. Oh well, here's to hoping. The rest of the cast is pretty damn cool.
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Not that this matters... at all... but the logo has grown on me now that I'm looking at it again. Thank God, because we all know the quality of a film rests on the desgin of its logo... right? Anyone? Bueller?
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... The Big Lebowski 2: De Rise of De Jeessus!
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he played Henri Ducard.
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You missed the point of the whole darn movie. Neeson was Ghul. Watanabe was a front who sat on the throne while Neeson was the real one in control pulling the strings. sheesh. in other breaking news, Rosebud was a sled, Bruce Willis was dead, the chick was a dude, and Samuel L Jackson was a supervillain.
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Thats all I want to know!
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please leave it out
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you went and done brokeded the spoiler quota..
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...but if that's who they got him for, I'm relieved. Otherwise he would've felt very much like a character they shoehorned in just because Jeff Bridges expressed an interest in being in the movie (kind of like Kevin SMith's ME in Daredevil). As for Bridges being the kiss of death to a movie, what the hell are you smoking Metal Water? The Fisher King? The Fabulous Baker Boys? The Fucking Big Fucking Lebowski? These movies didn't die by any definition of the word. They were lost only to (on) you, apparently.
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Then I'll be there opening day.
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I bet Bridges will take on the role of Tony's trusted chaffeur and assistant.
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the fact that the Mandarin the enemy namely seeing as he's a lame character. But the idea for it is to MAKE him an interesting enemy. That's the big challenge for this movie. But it has potential to be really cool to see.
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blah blah blah
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Sorry, had to do it.
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After A Scanner Darkly, Robert Downey Jr gets one free pass from me, so I'll be at this one.
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Seriously, wasnt he asian to begin with?
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Bridges play the wacky, fun-loving shuttle pilot that gets involved with a psycho robotics tech(Wynonna Ryder). Hijinks ensue when HAL 9000 refuses to let them into the International Space Station!" Co-starring Brooke Shields as the "Voice Of Mission Control." Uwe Boll directs.
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Stark hates the fucking Eagles man!
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Lethal Weapon....Riggs: "What else? We bury the FUNSTERS!" It just don't get any better than 'funsters'.
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I really can't see Jeff Bridges playing the Mandarin. As Preacher79 suggested, I expect him to play someone like Happy Hogan. Assistant, chaffeur, occasional wearer of the IM armor, Hogan eventually married Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow's character). If they get Paltrow/Potts out of the way, then that frees things up for the introduction of Bethany Cabe (and maybe even Madam Masque!) in the sequel.
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on youtube. TBL pared down to nothing but f-bombs.
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Is, is this a weekday?
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Nic Cage has suffered the same critics on this site with the same response. Both men have been in spectacular suckfests (Wickerman,The Weatherman,Fearless and so forth) But also underated gems like Lebowski,Raising Arizona,Arlington Road and Blown Away. I wish Ghost Rider will have sequels that are darker in nature then the supposed "Dark Comedy" in the vein of "American Werewolve in London" that Cage has been quoted as saying. Bottom line, we need awesome comic movies. We need Bale ,Spacey,Routh,and Ledger in a World's Finest Show down,Or Tobey Maguire with the cast of the Fantastic Four and Doctor Doom,Tom Jane and Ben Affleck in a kick ass Punisher Daredevil flick.If they won't do it on the big screen do it CGI like the new TMNT movie.Throw us a bone or two.
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MICKEY ROONEY! He has experience in Occidental-to-Oriental face-morphs, as his subtle and nuanced performance in Breakfast at Tiffany's shows/
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The cast of this movie is looking better than most oscar winning films. This and The Dark Knight are the only two superhero movies I'm actually looking forward to.
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Fucking fascist...
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good god it was awful. watch it again sometime. i like bridges though.. they span things.
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How did this happen?
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TBL totally rules...and Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors...still get overwhelmed watching Starman after all these years!! Casting for IM sounds kick ass...except for Paltrow. Favreau...you're so money! You're so money and you don't even know it!!!
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So show the man a little respect will ya! In fact his costume in Tron looked a little like Iron Man. I said a "little" so don't jump down my throat.
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Oh, I'm sorry. They aren't making it.
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it might work... im really looking forward to this movie. i still dont have faith in the director though, elf was lame and s zathura was unwatchable, but hey any movie that has this big names atached to it cant be wrong right? i mean BATMAN AND ROBIN worng... right? ps:metalwater, you just read that article about jeff bridges being box office poison and decided to go with it, thats just lame
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Justin Hammer. A rival but similar in many ways. Maybe he can be a friend and turn in a plot twist. CANT WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE.
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Nick Nolte as Dum Dum Dugan. You know it.
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For tony Stark and reworked the story slightly so that the bad guys were from the mid east; and hated Stark for everything he represents as he stands in his tall towers over squaller that they have made their world.
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except Paltrow. I think she'd be better suited playing Rosemary the switchboard operator in big screen version of Hong Kong Phooey.
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In response to an earlier poster, I think it could be read either way. To be honest, when I saw the movie I thought that Ducard had assumed the role of Ra's after his death - not that hard since Ra's was a rather reclusive figure. It was only after that I thought he might have been Ra's, but I still sort of stick by my first impression.
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There are tears streaming from my eyes and I can barely see what I'm typing... Thats the funniest thing I've read in days!
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Favreau has been replaced by Joss Whedon. The real hero of the story is now Pepper Potts, who will now be played by Anne Hathaway! Robert Downey Jr gets offed in the first five minutes! Metalwater, start your masturbating... now!
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...And provide the turning point where Stark goes after the villain, repulsors blazing. "MENDO-ZAAAAAAA!!!!" Unless Bridges is playing Obadiah Stane, which would be cool too...a nice "asshole" role from Bridges would be a change of pace.
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How was that weird? While we've always been told Ra's is arabic, he's always been depicted as looking rather anglo-saxon, made all the more so by David Warner's brilliant vocal performance on the animated series. When I first heard Liam Neeson was cast, I thought, "wow, he'd be a perfect Ra's! Oh, wait, he's not playing Ra's? Oh, ok, interesting. Because he would have been *great*..."
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An extra crispy Tommy Lee Jones seeks revenge and stalks The Dude on a family vacation to Ireland.
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So what if Ms. Paltrow almost certainly doesn't belong here, is this a very promising assembly of actors or what? Robert Downey Jr. hasn't always been well served by his films, but he's one of the best American actors working. And Bridges is a tasteful method actor, a phenomenon which deserves study by science.
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to play Fing Fang Foom.
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Who... who the fuck are the Knutsens?!?
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Or we will cut off your johnson
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He said Indiana Jones comes out on Thursday May 22, 2008.
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It'll be kind of awkward with all that talent standing around while some guy is furiously writing the next scene on a used napkin...
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seems a possibility, at least.
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I did a text search on the TB before I posted and you beat me to it -- my hunch is he's going to play Obadiah Stane. A shrewd move if Favreau keeps him a secondary foil to the Mandarin in order to set up a sequel.
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Dr. Bellows certifies the wrong female astronaut in a mix-up of paperwork, who goes nutzo over Tony. Roger would get involved somehow. Astronut Nowako would go after Jeannie who would easily blink her into another dimension faster than you could say, "Yes, Master." "Jinn-Jinn" the invisible dog has a cameo.
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Coincidences, in the opening scene of The Big Lebowski, when he's writing his check for the milk, look at the date on his check, and then note what's on the TV...just a little odd, I thought. My friend, a conspiracy freak, reads a lot into it. I just think it's weird.
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And the fact that Terrence Howard is considered much "fresher blood" than Downey, Jr. (No offense to either, great actors both.) Do you think maybe James Rhodes will be THE Iron Man by, say, the end of the sequel? Does Favreau have it in him to really buck the system with a real narrative? The rise and fall of Tony Stark and the rise of James Rhodes as THE Iron Man of the new milennium? Marvel is lining up Tony Stark to have either the biggest "What Have I Done?" moment in comics since Superman in KINGDOM COME or to flat-out become a real super-villain following the climax of CIVIL WAR. Watch that mini-series closely to see what direction the movie might take. If Tony Stark ends up as a real villain in the comics, then IRON MAN II or III might just have a climax of IRON MAN vs. IRON MAN (or War Machine.)
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But that day has long since past. I'm glad he's on board; he brings class and professionalism to any film.
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...maybe?
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just sayin'.
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dumb as Neeson being Ra's. Hopefully this is not The Hulk deuce with the Dude as Tony's evil industrialist coke-snorting jailbird dad.
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Downey as Stark just seems boring to me. There is nothing debonair about Downey, and to make Tony a full-blown addict in the first movie, well, let's just hope they avoid that crutch. Paltrow is not terrible, but she's not that exciting, either. I lost all enthusiasm when they cast Downey.
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to make Rhodes the "Iron-Man for the new age", or whatever. Stark is and always will be Iron Man.
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Or does this casting seem all wrong.I dont see anyone of these actors being in Iron Man.The thing is,is that I love all of them.Ive pretty much been right on all the bad casting so far,Affleck as DD,MCD as King Pin,Alba as S-Storm,All terrable performances and ruined those movies for me.I hope im wrong on this one,it just doesnt seem right.
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He said...No, it didn't look like Larry was about to crack. He also said to 'leave him the fuck alone'. He confirmed he WILL be at practice.
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WELL I HAVE TO DISAGREE WITH YOU, I DO LIKE ROBERT DOWNEY JR AS AN ACTOR, AND I THINK THIS WILL BE AN INTERESTING CAST, IT CAN GO EITHER WAY, BUT IM STILL KEEPING AN OPEN MIND, BUT AGAIN, I HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH THE CAST, IS THE DIRECTOR THAT WORRIES ME
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is that he's Gatsby in an Iron Man suit, and Downey is not manly or dashing in the slightest. Howard, on the other hand, is.
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My favorite TVized dub...
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I like Bridges, he is almost always entertaining on film, but it would be weird for him to play the Mandarin, who should remain Asian, or should not be used as the villain (why choose the Mandarin as villain and then change everything about him? They should stick to the basics of the character or just use a different villain). Chow Yun Fat would make a great Mandarin, as would Ken Watanabe.*****I can see Bridges as Nick Fury, but it is a bit of a stretch. I would rather see him as Justin Hammer or Obadiah Stane. It would be cool to see Bridges in the billionaire industrialist villain role, I think.*****I think Robert Downey Jr. is an excellent actor, but seems an off-beat choice for Stark. Hopefully they can pull it off. The closest role he has played that I can think of is the character in THE SINGING DETECTIVE, or KISS KISS BANG BANG. It will be interesting to see Downey as an action hero, though.*****As far as Rhodey becoming IRON MAN at some point: I don't think he should. It would be too confusing to change horses mid-stream and change Iron Man's identity. Tony Stark is, and should generally remain, Iron Man. Rhodes could go directly to being War Machine, though, as long as Iron Man and War Machine are kept distinctively different and seperate, so as not to confuse the non-comics fan audience.****I agree with the prior poster that would like to see Bethany Cabe and even Madame Masque show up eventually. Those characters and their classic plot-lines were during the golden age of the Iron Man character's history. I am generally not a fan of the Marvel Ultimates stuff. I understand the need to re-boot characters, but often the new stuff was much worse than the character's best original story-lines.****Finally, my hope is that the movie has a lot of high-tech action, mixed in with good story and character stuff. I have always felt that an Iron Man movie should be the superhero equivalent of a Tom Clancy movie. A lot of action, high-tech weaponry, and global security at stake. Iron Man has always been kind-of the Republican superhero, a billionaire playboy with high-tech super-weapons and a sense of mission. I hope Favreau makes a movie with that tone.
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I always felt, after watching BATMAN BEGINS a few times, that Liam Neeson is NOT actually the Ra's Al-Ghul character EITHER. Just as the Ken Watanabe character was a false front for Al-Ghul, so is the Liam Neeson character, Henri Ducard. In fact, my feeling is that Neeson's character is simply one more layer of protection for Al-Ghul, and we have not even met Al-Ghul on film yet, which leaves the character available for future films (which would be great, if they could get someone like Terrence Stamp to play him, as has been suggested by many fans on this and other sites before). So, my feeling is that Neeson's character is/was, in fact, Henri Ducard, who was just another one of Al-Ghul's top lieutenants and cat's-paws, acting as yet another front for the mysterious and powerful al-Ghul character. This may be reading more into the movie than there actually is, but it makes sense to me, given that Henri Ducard and Ra's Al-Ghul were two related, but very distinctly different characters in the comics. Also, no one would ever mistake Neeson for a person of Middle-Eastern descent, but Terrance Stamp or another similar actor could at least suggest the possibility of that ethnicity and background. It would also build the character of al=Ghul up quite a bit, since he has been foreshadowed so much by the first film, and since he must be, by default, a superior to the Neeson character, and Ducard himself was so formidable and elegantly menacing himself in the first film.
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Heres hoping that they can actually pull it off.
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I'd prefer he be convincingly Arab or Persian, though. He also has to be on the younger side, not older, because of the Lazarus pit. (Unless you want him de-aging for the final fight, but I think that's kind of cliche.) Batman Begins was an interesting reimagining of the character's concept, even very clever in its own right, but I think Ra's is visually interesting and enough of a character to stand on his own. Enough to make me really want to see him on film.
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Another interesting point about BATMAN BEGINS and Ra's Al-Ghul is that if Liam Neeson's Ducard was just another front for Al-Ghul, then the League of Shadows probably will continue to exist after Ducard's death, Hydra-like, with other "cells" that operated independent of Ducard. I think this makes the League of Shadows scarier and more menacing, which makes them a good potential opponent of Batman's in any future film. *****I have to disagree somewhat on the ethnicity of Ra's al-ghul.. Al-Ghul should have at least some sort of Middle-Eastern overtone. He is a modern man, but he also is of Middle-Eastern heritage. His ethnicity is not central and overbearing, but it adds some depth to the character. Why should comic characters always be heavily Anglo? We live in a big world, and bringing in non-Anglo-American characters implies a larger world outside of America and the fictional Gotham. So, I have no objections to Al-Ghul be played as properly Middle-Eastern, and would like to see at least the possibility of the League of Shadows in the future of Batman films. They make good enemies for the Dark Knight, in my opinion.
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Flynn...help Iron Man. Help Iron Man.
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He's already got the iron lung.
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That's your name, Dude!
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That was me...and five other guys.
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fucking love the big lebowski. got me hooked on white russians to this day and its one of those rare films you can watch over and over again. the casting for this flick keeps ketting better and better...well, except for paltrow but then again she didnt ruin Se7en, so there's hope
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I can get you a toe by.. what time is it... 4 o'clock. There are ways, dude. You don't want to know, believe me, but there are ways.
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To use the parlance of our times.
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about Ra's.
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Best rewrite of a character in fifty years. Ultimate Marvel really made Nick Fury interesting again.
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