Well, it looks like Marvel continues to pull it's head out of it's ass. As it's been announced following the re-signing of Samuel L. Jackson that Mickey Rourke is now back on board. Apparently, Marvel has realized that the a follow-up to their biggest blockbuster to date (nearly $600 million to date) deserves spending a couple of extra bucks and has upped the offer to Rourke from the slap-in-the-face initial $250, 000 to a more respectable amount. Sources say that Rourke will be playing the Russian Iron Man baddie Crimson Dynamo, who for some reason will be amalgamated with non-related character Whiplash. Peculiar.
In other Iron Man news, for those who were holding to hope for Emily Blunt to still be able to slide on the dark leather and play Russian spy turned superhero Natasha Romanov (The Black Widow), well let it go. It's now been officially announced that Scarlet Johansson will be doing her best to squeeze into that skin-tight suit. I guess she figured after The Spirit she needed to try her hand at good comic book movie. Or maybe she thought this way she could go home to hubby Ryan Reynolds and compare notes on who plays the better assassin in a Marvel movie (since Reynolds is playing the merc-with-a-mouth Deadpool in the upcoming Wolverine film). Unfortunately, Blunt could not work around a previous obligation to Fox as previous mentioned. We all know how accommodating Fox Studios can be, just ask Warner Bros. and the crew of Watchmen.
Finally, in somewhat related news, Marvel has announced new release dates for a number of their upcoming properties. At one time Marvel had Iron Man 2 and Thor coming out fairly close together in 2010, with Captain America and The Avengers movies following suit in 2011. The studio has now decided to spread the movies out a bit, giving them a better chance for summer revenues without competing with itself (which makes it weird that Thor and Captain America are a month apart).
The new release dates are:
Iron Man 2- May 7, 2010 (still)
Thor- from July 6, 2010 to June 17th 2011
Captain America: The First Avenger- from May 6, 2011 to July 22, 2011
The Avengers- from July 15, 2011 to May 4, 2011.
Spider-Man 4 (Sony)- May 6, 2011 (just 2 DAYS after the release of The Avengers movie!)
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