Here's a first look at Don Cheadle as Jim Rhodes aka War Machine.
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Here's a first look at Don Cheadle as Jim Rhodes aka War Machine.
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fuck it looks way off
iono it just doesnt feel right
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^^I update the first post with the same photos just under my Photobucket.
Here he is...
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they haven't even come close to getting somebody that looks like james rhodes from the comics lol
should've got idris elba or michael jai white or somebody like that
cheadle's a good actor but he's another soft voiced skinny dude
New Photo of Scarlett Johansson in Iron Man 2
Source:Yahoo! Movies
July 21, 2009
Yahoo! Movies has debuted this new photo of Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff (AKA Black Widow) in Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios' Iron Man 2, opening in theaters on May 7, 2010.
Directed by Jon Favreau, the sequel stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Garry Shandling, John Slattery, Kate Mara, Clark Gregg and Olivia Munn.
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Updated the front page with footage description of the trailer that was premiered at Comic Con today and question/Answers AND a first look at War Machine. From what I read it sounds very promising. I can't wait to see War Machine!
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One would expect actor Don Cheadle to be one of the more nervous of the cast members of Iron Man 2 to appear at the San Diego Comic-Con to unveil never-before-seen footage, especially considering his addition to the cast came at the expense of popular actor Terrrence Howard. Howard portrayed James "Rhodey" Rhodes in the first Iron Man and was popular among fans, so there was some grumbling in the fan community when Cheadle stepped in to play the role and don the War Machine armor for the first time.
However, Cheadle was anything but nervous during the post-panel roundtable interview session I had the opportunity to participate in. With a big smile on his face and a bounce in his step, Cheadle plunked himself down at our table and dove right into the questioning with much enthusiasm. The natural first question for Cheadle was what his reaction was to the incredible footage of War Machine in full-blazing action shown at the very end of the Iron Man 2 teaser:
"It was pretty incredible. I mean, I hadn't seen any of the footage cut together. I didn't know what to expect. You know you're really out there on a leap of faith because you do your part and they go, 'Okay, this is going to be this,' and they explain it to you, and maybe they show you an animatic, but you don't really know what the end result is going to be. I mean, and even as good as that looked, that's still not the end result. That was rushed together, that's not totally finished, so it's going to be, 'Wow!'"
When asked how he prepared to play Rhodey, Cheadle said:
"I went back and looked at a lot of different--there's so many different iterations of James 'Rhodey' Rhodes in comic books, so it was hard to go, 'Well, I want to be the one in 1982...' It's like, which one am I picking? So...what's the common denominator here? The common denominator was really his friendship with Tony. And, that's what we really tried to track. How is there friendship impacted once Tony comes out and owns 'I am Iron Man' and now I'm in the military and there's a chain-of-command that I have to follow but you're working outside of the military and basically you're a live weapon that can do whatever it wants...that was the strain, that was the tension that was between their relationship that drives the whole movie, for our characters."
Cheadle left off a question abut whether he had any trepidation about having to sign a multi-picture deal in order to secure the Rhodey role:
"Well, what I know is that no matter what you sign, if the movie isn't successful, it doesn't how many movies we decide we were going to do, the public will say, 'We don’t want any more.' So, you want them to be successful and if they are successful, then, good, why wouldn't you want be in any more?"
When discussing the actual process of shooting the film, Cheadle said that working with green screens can be a tedious:
"Oh, it's very time-consuming. It's very time-consuming and very technical and meticulous and that's the part where you really have to trust these other teams of people that come on after you've walked off and handle it."http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images...achine%202.jpg
Apparently, Rhodey never meets Whiplash in the movie. Don said:
"I saw Mickey Rourke one day. I don't have any scenes with Mickey...I don’t think. Unless they drew me into one. "
Of course, that doesn't mean that War Machine and Whiplash don't have any scenes together...
When asked if he felt any pressure to portray Rhodey the way that Howard had played him, Cheadle said:
"Well, a lot of that was figured out before we began shooting. There were no marching orders, like, 'Watch the first movie and make sure that you come in here and you're paying off what Terrance did in the first movie.' It was really, 'You're in character, you're going to do your own thing, we have to find out what works for this movie, and honor this story,' which is a whole new story. That's why I liked how we kind of just dealt with it right up front, first scene, first moment that I was here on screen, say something about it and then just move on. "
I asked Don if his relationship with Terrence had been affected by the drama surrounding the role change and he said:
"No, no, because I didn't take a role from Terrance, you know. It's potentially weird between he and them because, you know, that was their deal. But, by the time I came on, he was already not doing the movie. "
Cheadle said that Howard had been the first one to wish him luck when he got the role and continued saying:
"Terrance has been a friend for a while. I produced Crash and put him in Crash. And, I was his friend before that too, so he knew there was no beef. I didn't snake a part from Terrance. He was cool with me."
When asked if there was any other dream superhero role out there that Don would just love to play, he chose the founder of Buddhism over more obvious choices:
"Siddartha. I mean, that's a crazy answer, but it's true. Comic books, you know, I really liked Swamp Thing. I loved that comic. And, I loved The Dark Knight. I was a fan of that comic book. "
Iron Man 2 also stars Robert Downey Jr., Sam Rockwell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke and Samuel L. Jackson. There are also rumors that Edward Norton will reprise the role of the Hulk in the film, but Norton has refused to comment.
Unlike nearly every other celebrity that took the stage in Hall H over the course of the San Diego Comic-Con, actor Robert Downey Jr. didn't stroll out following an introduction. Instead, he took the stage while the room was dark for the screening of a mock teaser trailer. When the lights went up, Downey Jr. was revealed and the crowd went wild.
Following the panel, I had the opportunity to sit down with Downey Jr. and he described the "rockstar" feeling he gets from a reception like that as a "fleeting" one. He said:
"The 'Hall H experience.' I don't know what to say. I think the weird--honestly, I think the weird thing is I have a job and I like it a bunch. And, I like it best when I'm doing it. And then there's a bunch of other stuff that seems like...like, when I was a teenager, what I wanted was the experience of walking into a Hall H and having a reaction like that, but I didn't actually want to have to do what it took to maybe earn anywhere near the kind of, you know, pseudo-respect that gets you in that position. So, I...don't really quite know what to make of it. I know that it feels good, but I also know that one should exert caution over things that feel good just for a second and then are done."
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images...an%202%20b.jpgThe topic quickly turned to Tony Stark, the character that has thrust Downey Jr. back into the limelight after a decade spent struggling to crawl out from under the transgressions of his past history of substance addiction.
"(Tony) was thought of as this kind of charming prick and then he is almost killed and then he exerts his own escape. Kind of heroic, but really on his own behalf. So, I think that there’s probably a bit of an imposter complex and no sooner has he said, 'I am Iron Man,' than he’s wondering really what means. If you have all of this cushion like he does and the public is on your side and you have immense wealth and power...I think he's way too insulated to be okay, you know?"
Downey Jr. made a comment that possibly aludes to the famous "Demon in a Bottle" storyline from Iron Man (Vol. 1) #120-128:
"(Tony's)struggling with some sort of contamination of his own system and he has a very formidable guy [Whiplash] saying, 'I don’t care what everyone thinks about you, I know that you come from a family of murderers and thieves and I’m gonna take you out of your misery.' And, maybe, he almost half wants that to happen."
When asked about the complexity of the story, Downey Jr. got very excited. He said:
"It's badass. This story is really sweet. We're so proud of it because we, we literally, we worked so hard and spent so much time together and worked so many weekends and tore our eyebrows out to try to find the best way to express the most stream-lined version of the complexities of what really would happen.
Sam Rockwell's character, Justin Hammer, is introduced in Iron Man 2 and it's not clear exactly how he fits into Tony's life, but Downey Jr. said:
"Well, I think if Justin Hammer is ready to step in and fill Tony’s shoes and say 'Hey, dude, just let me do it for you.' But if you look at Justin Hammer and you look at the way Sam Rockwell plays him it would be like, 'Not you, buddy! You’re a jerk, I don’t trust you,' and maybe he should have trusted him. Or, maybe he’s more trustworthy than Tony thinks. But, I think that Tony thinks he can handle everything if he just gets enough space and he can figure everything out if he just puts his mind to it.
And, that’s not the way it works. And, I think that’s the big lesson in this film, is that he has to utilize not only all of his own resources but the resources of those close to him and then resources from somewhere he never, ever, ever could’ve imagined. And it's not just as obvious as, like, S.H.I.E.L.D. steps in, it’s actually a lot more primal than that."http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images...an%202%20a.jpg
Tony's relationship with James "Rhodey" Rhodes is more strained in this film than in the last one, as evidenced by a brief encounter between the two in a courtroom scene shown at Comic-Con. Downey Jr. explains:
"As we remember, in the previous incarnation, I give Rhodey a lot of shit and I don’t understand why when I got out of the weapons business he wouldn’t just come with me. Bu, I think there’s also a big learning curve here of, you know, Rhodey is used to 'Everything you do, you do with a wingman, and when you go it alone lives are lost,' and I think Tony’s thing is that Rhodey doesn’t know what it's like to go it alone and be the lone samurai."
Downey Jr. said that there's the requisite amount of action for a film of this type, but that there's nothing gratuitous about any of it:
Every piece of action that happens in Iron Man 2 is a direct result of a part of a character arc. Including, probably the biggest sequence in the first hour of the movie just happens because...anyway, I don't want to give it away...everything is a result of essentially dysfunction or mistakes made and those mistakes, when you're Iron Man and when you're surrounded by the kind of people he is, the ramifications are ginormous."
And, of course, what every fan wants to know is how Tony Stark/Iron Man will factor in the movie version of The Avengers, which is tentatively slated for a 2012 release date. Downey Jr. admitted that he has been included in talks about The Avengers, but said that there was a lot of work to be done before that:
"I'm in a really enviable position that I'm part of the creative team from the inception. This one really took a lot out of us because we knew that we had to meet our own expectations and, therefore, the expectations of the people who made this film successful. So, as far as Avengers goes...that's the mountain, you know, that's the mountain that would have to be carefully climbed, I guess."
Iron Man 2 also stars Mickey Rourke as Whiplash, Don Cheadle as Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War Machine, Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Jon Favreau returns as director.
Iron Man 2 opens May 7, 2010!
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With the Hall H applause still ringing in my ears, I proceeded upstairs to a private set of roundtable interviews with the cast of Iron Man 2. Up first, was Sam Rockwell, who plays Justin Hammer, Tony Stark's competitor and, later, his adversary.
http://comicbookmovie.com/images/use...20Rockwell.jpgWhen asked about the character of Justin Hammer, Rockwell said:
"He's an arms dealer and he's a Tony Stark wannabe, you know. I think he's awesome. He's great, following in the footsteps of Jeff Bridges and Bill Murray in Kingpin and a few other adversaries.
Apparently the character wasn't fully formed when Rockwell was hired. He said:
"We sort of didn't know where (Justin) was going and we discovered that as we shot the film, which is also kind of exciting. It also takes the pressure off you, because you're like--you know, I got a speech a half-hour before we shot it. I got a speech at lunch time, so I had to learn that and figure that out and use little tricks, you know, but we got it. It's on film, it's on celluloid."
Only minutes before the interview, Rockwell had been on stage in front of more than 6,000 fans for the Iron Man 2 panel. He was somewhat subdued during the panel and did not say very much. When asked if the crowds were intimidating, Rockwell said:
"It's a little intimidating, but seeing the trailer is really wild because we've been working on the film--we just wrapped about a week ago, so it felt like a smaller endeavor to us, and then to see that kind of filmmaking up there is pretty awesome, pretty impressive. So, I'm kind of like, "Wow, this is a big deal."
Rockwell couldn't divulge too much about the plot, but he admitted that his character and Mickey Rourke's character, Whiplash, team up against Iron Man. He said that Tony snubs Justin, which sets him off.
"Whiplash and I--Ivan and I do team up together. I'm sort of a patron of evil, I suppose. Actually, he's a big fan of Tony. Tony doesn't really want to hang out with Justin, so I think that angers Justin."
When asked about the process of developing the character of Justin Hammer, Rockwell said that it was not difficult, even though he was only given bits and pieces of the script to work with. He said:
"It's kind of like the way we worked on Charlie's Angels, with the exception that we had 17 writers for that and we only had one writer, which was Justin Theroux--thank God, you know--but it's a similar process and yet, because (director Jon Favreau) is an actor who comes from improve it's really actor-friendly, this process. So, it's very character driven. We didn't get a full script until like a week before shooting. I would get little pieces here and there. But, I would have conversations about it and I would get the scenes and go to my acting coach--a guy named Terry Knickerbocker--and we would work on the material. Even though the material might change... the homework I had done on it still pays off because it's still the same imaginary circumstances even though (something has) changed. So, it is possible to do preparation for a movie like this, but it's an unconventional way to work."
Finally, I asked Rockwell if he ever tries on the War Machine armor in the movie, since he is the one who develops it for the military. Rockwell smiled and said, "We'll see. We'll see," and then changed the subject. Could the footage of War Machine shown firing his guns in the teaser actually have Justin inside and not James "Rhodey" Rhodes? We'll have to wait and see.
Iron Man 2 opens May 7, 2010.
Following the debut of the first official Iron Man 2 teaser footage, I had the opportunity to sit down with actress Scarlett Johansson to discuss the role of Natasha Romanoff, AKA the Black Widow and some of the rumors surrounding this much-anticipated sequel.
http://comicbookmovie.com/images/use...0Johansson.jpgJohansson said that she was nervous when she first contemplated wearing a skin-tight superhero costume:
"I had a bit of a freak-out moment. Well, it was more seeing the--'cause the costume took a while to build it, obviously, but I saw some of the sketches and I knew what to expect because I had obviously seen the kind of later incarnation of the character. I knew that it was going to be some kind of cat suit of some kind. So, I had a freak-out moment, but that only lasted about, you know, half-a-day and I was like, 'Suck it up, you gotta just do it,' so I never turned back after that. I just went, like, full force."
In addition to fears over how she would look in the costume, Johansson admitted that she was afraid the costume would impede her ability to perform:
"But, as far as the action sequences go, and how the costume relates to that--one thing that's obviously important to my character is that the costume moves, the character is, you know, an expert of hand-to-hand combat, she's a mixed martial artist, she comes from a dance background, there's some gymnastics thrown in--it's kind of like everything all thrown into one big, sort of, fighting machine. So, a big part of me was like, "Can I move in this, can I run in it?"
Johansson was hesitant to reveal too much about the
Black Widow and her relationships with the other characters in the movie, but she said:
"There are sort of two sides to my character, she's a bit of a shape-shifter, I suppose. There's a side of the character that's kind of demur and sort of covert, and, um, kind of…I wouldn't say that she's submissive, but she's kind of blending into sort of Stark Industries of some kind. And, then the other part of the character, which is a really aggressive and badass character that is sure of herself and is going to kick the shit out of you if you get in her way. That's about as much as I can tell you."
I asked Scarlett about the recent rumors that there was tension between her and actress Gwyneth Paltrow--who reprised the role of Tony's assistant, Pepper Potts—over the attention that Johansson was receiving and she said:
"No, nothing could be further from the truth. I have nothing but wonderful things to say about working with Gwyneth. She's totally out of the loop. She's very much out of the loop. You know, she's got a wonderful family she spends a lot of time with, so for her, she's like, 'What's going on? What?' And, of course, (director Jon Favreau) who's like on his Twittering thing--he's so crazy about any kind of news about anything--is like, 'You haven't heard? You haven't heard?' He comes on set and I'm like, 'Oh, God,' you know. Every time I would say—I would say to Gwyneth--you know she would say, 'Oh, yeah, that was on the seventh,' and I would say, 'Are you sure that wasn't on the sixth?' And, (Jon) would go, 'Another cat fight! It's breaking out!'"
Johansson also said that there was no truth to the rumor that Paltrow snubbed Comic-Con:http://comicbookmovie.com/images/use...Johansson2.jpg
"Believe me, she's worthy of plenty of attention and I know that the fans love her. And, they're going to love to see her in this movie because her character really is able to, kind of, comes into her own. And, I know that she would love to be here, as well, but she's with her family."
Johansson deflected questions about the Black Widow's origins in the film and how connected the character might be to her comic book origins as a Communist spy:
"Well, I mean, like I said, the character remains quite mysterious in this film. All we kind of—you know, she's definitely—I mean, this movie is not about, like, revealing the Black Widow identity. Hopefully, if the character continues on, whether that be through Avengers or something like that we'll be able to explore more of her past. Obviously, you know, the film is present day, so to bring in that whole Communist aspect of the character might be a little bit dated."
Johansson said that signing a multi-picture deal was not daunting and was actually enticing to her, as an actor:
"We have a vested interest in our characters, as well. I mean, I didn't go into this going, 'Oh, this is the last I ever want to see of this character.' I want—I would love to see the character come back and, sort of, as I was saying, kind of reveal more about herself. I loved making the film. I loved working with Jon (Favreau). I loved working with Robert (Downey Jr.). And, so, you know, for me, as an actor, we kind of have a beginning, middle and end, and a one-and-a-half or two-hour segment or whatever, and we're done with it. So, for me to be able to bring something like this back and kind of develop the character is exciting and something we don't normally get to do as actors."
Iron Man 2 opens May 7, 2010.