Coming out May 7, 2010, another big budget sequel for the marvel franchise.
Along with some new Iron Man tech, looks like a lot of new characters will be introduced too. Shown in the trailer are Ivan Vanko/Whiplash (Mickey Rourke), Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), Col. James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes / War Machine (Don Cheadle) and, not shown in the trailer, Melina Vostokoff / Iron Maiden (Olivia Munn, on a roll in 2010 as she’s also in Tron Legacy).
Will introducing so many characters in one film be confusing and scattered like Spider man 3? Hope not, but unless the film is three hours long it’s hard to develop each character enough for us to care.
Nick Fury is the man in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division). I guess we’ll be seeing how Tony Stark’s involvement with the organization ends up with the formation of the Avengers.
Now you might have noticed that the role of Tony Stark’s best friend Col. Rhodes is now played by Don Cheadle. Rumour is that the director and producers were not very happy with Terrence Howard’s performance in Iron Man, and he was the highest paid actor in the film due to being cast first, so they offered him a drastically reduced pay that was more in line with a supporting actors rate. He demanded more money so they just replaced him. Such is Hollywood.
It will be interesting to see how this sequel plays out and hopefully it will be as entertaining as the original. I, for one, love the suitcase armour.
Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Leo
Filed under: Shooting Gallery
this movie is going to be amazing!
I like the first movie, I think I’ll like this one. Wish I still had that old Ironman comic book I had as a kid.
3D would be cool too!
I liked the first one, I’m sure I’ll like the second. Would have been cool in 3D.
Bits of this are going to be in 3D from what iver read
Trailer looks crazy!!
The original never supposed to be more than it was. Sure, there was fanfare, but not overly, and sure there’ll be merch this time and more fanfare … but it doesn’t seem like the trailer is saying “this will be the most awesome thing that you will ever see”.
It seems more like, “ok, yeah, this is as close a mix of the comic and the real world that we thought we could really produce, and still (perhaps) mix in some sensible/good(?) storytelling/acting/film making … we can take the hit if it ain’t your cup of tea”.
Wow, I know that’s a lot to read from a trailer … but there really does appear to be a feet on ground approach to the Iron Man movies that I like. Perhaps the new Batmans helped with that a little, but at least it isn’t DARK!
Just saw the movie yesterday… needless to say it was awesome!
this film turned out really well