Sunday, March 15, 2009

Mickey Rourke and Scarlett Johansson cast in Iron Man 2

In a bit of casting news, recent Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke has just signed on for Iron Man 2. Rourke has been cast as one of the villains in the upcoming sequel. Rourke as a villain in a superhero movie? Look at that mug. It was written in the stars.

More casting news on the Iron Man front isn't as promising. Scarlett Johansson has been cast as Black Widow, a Russian spy. I fall into the camp of people who watches Scarlett Johansson in a movie and am astounded because there are probably hundreds of other women out there waiting tables in Hollywood who can act circles around her.

Scarlett Johansson trying to maintain a Russian accent throughout a movie while "acting" has train meets man head-on written all over it. If you can't wait for the carnage, you can check out the musical stylings of Ms. Johansson here:

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