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Will Tony Stark's Daddy Be A Cross-Franchise Nexus In IRON MAN 2??
Merrick here...
El Mayimbe over at Latino Review has word on who'll play Howard Stark, Tony's dad, in IR2N MAN (sorry, I couldn't resist).
Tim Robbins is going to be playing Howard Stark in an important flashback sequence that is going to set up the Avengers and Captain America films. Jon [Favreau] wanted to get a good actor because he didn't think the guy who played Howard in the last film could carry such an important scene.
...says THIS PIECE at Latino Review.
"[Favreau] wanted to get a good actor because he didn't think the guy who played Howard in the last film could carry such an important scene. " Yeouch. Was the dude even in the first movie beyond the media presentation at the awards ceremony which opened the film?
Poor Gerard Sanders. Well, at least he looked sorta like Tim Robbins...
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Yeah snow day!
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a photo during the award ceremony, was there really a scene with Tony's dad?
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Let's just hope that they don't cheese out on this one. They have good thing going and leave it to Hollywood to screw it up.
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HOW BOUT 3rd
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Looks like an Ultimates universe for IR2N.
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I'd buy that for a dollar
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GOD, favreau sure likes to waste money i guess.
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Ummm.... Hollywood?
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you just know Robbins can't help it
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So glad that's gone. Yes your friend is gay GET OVER IT!
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...that's the word on the street anyway.
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Might as well let the rumors fly more
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...I wouldn't miss.
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He looked like the Dos Equis guy so get him
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I swore the title said Cross-Dresser. Intriguing.
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because now they are -at the very least- a solid 12 hours behind other sites, many of which are newer and smaller.
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Isn't that bigger news than Robbins' cameo as Stark's Dad?
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I definitely don't remember that. I've only seen it twice though.
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It can't be the creation of Captain America, because Howard Stark would need to have been born in, what, the early 1920s at least?
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That's much more plausible. Never mind.
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this is the role Ed Harris was BORN to play!! Tim Robbins...bah!
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To Terence Howard…..he is such a puss for saying ‘its all right baby’ ….he needs to pay his ‘pal’ Chedal and visit with a shoe in each hand
Next Time baby….for Don Cheat-le!! -
Okay. But I agree with the Doseke Beer guy being a better choice "Cocktails in a minute ladies but first a little SuperScience!"
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Seriously. Tim Robbins should be The Thing. When they finally reboot Craptastic Four and recast The Fantastic Four I want Tim Robbins to play Ben Grimm.
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the rumor also said that Hawk Eye and Black Widow are in Iron man 2 and not as cameos. I have a feeling Hilary Swank is playing black Widow or Marie Hill. Cause if you look closely Hilary Swank is in Iron Man 1 to the left of Stark when he is shooting craps in the beginning. THis shows that SHIELD has been follow start from the beginning.
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That is bigger news than a Tim Robbins cameo, is not? Leave it to AICN...
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and gramma stark. and auntie stark. and uncle stark.
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This been said: Tim Robbins is always worth watching. Even in Howard the Duck.
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Dec 18, 2008 3:05:50 PM CST
I love it when Favreau acts like he knows what he's doing....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...fucking idiot. Everyone needs to contact Gerard Sanders manager right fucking now!!
Show your support! Ask for Enzo Lamblet
Phone: 323-848-7143
And visit Gerard's Official Site, here:http://tinyurl.com/3gza3d -
With both of them being in the film, too, it looks like they are going to do the storyline that introduced them. I am willing to bet the plot centers around Hawkeye being duped into stealing Stark's armor tech by Black Widow and the resultant theft ends up creating Crimson Dynamo, Titanium Man or both. Then Hawkeye and Widow switch sides to help Tony take down the newly created armor. It would be close to the comic story and would really fit in with the overall terrorist organization plot of the Ten Rings that Favs said he wants to culminate in a third part with the Mandarin.
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they're going to completely ruin the Captain America movie....
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_en_ce/obit_majel_roddenberry ; she died today.
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Dec 18, 2008 3:16:20 PM CST
Its true. He could have kept the original guy....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....saved a shitload of money (I'm sure he is a hell of a lot cheaper than Robbins, and its not like a single soul on the planet gets excited for the new Tim Robbins movie, so it clearly wasn't a move to get asses in seats) and put that toward making the shit CG look a little better. I mean really....you can't have a guy in a plastic fucking suit walking toward the camera? That REALLY has to be mocap? So much for the practical approach you love to brag about Fat-row. -
I guess it's a pretty big scene.
Well, anyway, I still look forward to Iron Man 2!
I can't wait to see who is going to be cast as Captain America, that is gonna be a trip. -
...or he wanted Robbins - which is it?
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Tim Robbins looks like a mad scientist, someone who'd push Tony away constantly. He's a damn good fit for the role. And re: the recasting, they recast Rhodes. At this stage, it's best actor for the role.
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Timothy Dalton Or Tom Sellick
Tim Robbins wrong wrong wrong -
If you want to cast a guy whose career peaked in the 80s, drag Michael Biehn into it.
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another piece of my childhood taken away...2008 sux ass
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I almost pissed myself laughing at that. Bravo, sir.
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Tim Robbins would be great for the role. He's versatile, can play joe six-pack or insane wacko with equal poise, and keep you watching either way. He's a really good actor. Anyone remember ol' Andy Dufresne in "The Shawshank Redemption?"
Yeah, tell me again how he won't knock this role out of the park? Oh, that's right. You can't. -
Giver me Iron Man 2:Ironer Man or give me death!....oh hey, maybe Im being IRONic? eh? EH!?(nudge nudge) Sorry I had drink with my talkback....
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And chucked a crazy 40's style mo' on him.
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Lance in "Apocalypse Now", also died today.
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Dec 18, 2008 4:29:54 PM CST
Keep The Avengers roster to the A-Listers.....................
by crackerfarmboy
I don't want to see B-List Marvel characters in The Avengers film. Give me Hulk, Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man. Think about it, what would a guy who is really good at archery have to offer this team of meta-humans anyway?
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And get him to grow back the There Will Be Blood moustache. Don't bother with Robbins.
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He's a Redshirt who The Hulk can eat.
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Honestly, how will he fill his time?
terrible choice.
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BOYCOTT THIS FILM!!! BOYCOTT IT AND BURN DOWN THE STUDIO!!! AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEE!!!
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Imagine! The remake of Iron Man 2 will be AWESOME!
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Favreau, you motherfucking piece of shit. YOU GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!!! HOW COULD YOU?!?!?!?!?!?!
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See what I did there? YEAH I FUCKING WENT THERE!!! I! FUCKING!!! WENT!!!!!! THERE!!!!!!!
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Hawkeye and Black Widow. Clint Barton, baby!!!
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Dec 18, 2008 5:36:14 PM CST
Jon Favreau to replace Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 2.
by leafar the lost
Jon Favreau wants to get a good actor to play Tony Stark in Iron Man 2, because he doesn't think Robert Downey Jr.(who played Stark in the last film) can carry such an important franchise into the future. He is considering casting Gary Sinise for the Tony Stark/Iron Man role.
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....no.
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yeah thats right ......... make it so.....
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Yep.
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politics and all that blah blah aside he was great in Jacob's Lader, The Player, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Shawshank Redemption and he was even good in War Of The Worlds
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and just concentrate on another good IRON MAN movie. They already fucked up THE INCREDIBLE HULK and they will probably cast a 5'10" actor as THOR.
PS- I love Harry's idea of Mickey Rourke playing a 50-year-old Bruce Wayne. -
Nice win.
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How did the "fuck up" The Incredible Hulk? That movie kicked ass!
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You know the Bush cult members love it!
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would probably have developed Captain America's shield and suit (since X-Men is Fox, probably only steel and vibranium). Tim Robbins could do it.
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For he is in Hollywood and we are not, so his opinion means more.
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England said so.
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Megan Fox IS giving me a boner
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if you didn't already know.
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I'd smile about it. Then i'd take off my shirt and fight like 6 guys. They would NEVER get up.
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I2: War Machine
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Well that was kinda rude, wasn't it? A2shole.
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If Tim Robbins is playing Iron Man's father, will Tim Robbins' mother, Susan Sarandon, be playing Iron Man's grandmother?
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looks more like the dude from the first film...and Terrence Howard was robbed and MARVEL and Favs should ashamed of the recast.
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seems to understand it. I'm a huge DC fanboy and I really hope that Warners get their shit together and interlink their superhero franchises too in the next few outings. I want a linked DC universe on screen. Marvel can fuck off (even if I really liked Iron Man I'm really sick of almost every other Marvel movie)
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Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk were both superb. Kevin Feige is making all the right decisions.
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Gerard's not a bad actor at all. They just wanted a name.
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I been wondering this since the they said in the first movie that he had something to do with the Manhanttan Project.
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But he got too old. Would have been nice to see him play Tony's dad though.Robbins is a great actor, but I doubt he'll be able to avoid bringing his personal politics to the role of a weapons designer. It'll be like War of the Worlds again.IM was a fun, great movie, but it still centered around a weapons designer that had a change of heart about designing weapons -- who then proceeded to design a weapon and used it unilaterally. And in other nations. Robbins will only add to the craziness.
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Bush "cult members"? Really? REALLY? Don't talk to me about who has cult members, but for a second let's step back and have a hard look at the good Mr. Robbins playing Howard Stark. The role, for intents and purposes is Howard Hughes: an eccentric billionaire visionary, who represents the good and ills of that ellusive villian, the "Military Industustrial Complex". Do I think Robbins is right for the part? So long as he plays it straight and with some dignity, sure. Is he my first choice? Not even close. I'd cast someone older and more distinguished for the flashbacks and let CGI magic youngen up Downey as it did for that magazine cover at the award ceremony scene. That's as far as my "cult member" thinking takes me, thanks.
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that Mr. Left Winger himself will be playing the daddy of all warmongers. I'm for it. Tim is one of my fav actors.
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I'm going to fucking stab you!
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