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Deliver a great performance in a critically hailed film, get the Oscar talk buzzing, push up your Standard & Poor's rating and wait for a big paycheck opportunity. Winning the Best Actor Oscar is a very nice reward -- pop the champagne, hug your mom, etc. -- but the career revival and a big paycheck job is the real booty-boo. That's what Mickey Rourke's reported role in Iron Man 2 is. Speculation is that he'll play a tattooed villain called the Crimson Dynamo.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 7, 2009 at 4:02 PM
comment #1
Nick Rogers
says ...
Who'd have thunk it a decade - hell, five years - ago that Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke might go mano a mano in anything but the race to the bottom?
Posted by Nick Rogers
at January 7, 2009 4:24 PM
comment #2
George Prager
says ...
The Oscars are like Metamucil.
Posted by George Prager
at January 7, 2009 4:25 PM
comment #3
ZayTonday
says ...
I thought Sin City was Mickey Rourke's comeback. Or was it Domino....
Posted by ZayTonday
at January 7, 2009 4:59 PM
comment #4
The InSneider
says ...
Comment of the year, Nick Rogers. Everyone here at Variety got a kick out of that one.
Posted by The InSneider
at January 7, 2009 5:37 PM
comment #5
NDH
says ...
Thomas Haden Church did the same thing after his Oscar nomination.
Posted by NDH
at January 7, 2009 6:59 PM
comment #6
erniesouchak
says ...
If I were as broke as Mickey, I'd do crap like Iron Man 2 too.
Posted by erniesouchak
at January 7, 2009 7:04 PM
comment #7
Nick Rogers
says ...
InSneider: Thanks. I'm flattered, but also humbled. It is only Jan. 7, after all.
Posted by Nick Rogers
at January 7, 2009 7:25 PM
comment #8
Chicago48
says ...
Mickey was brilliant, absolutely f***ing brilliant in Sin City....should have been nom'd.
Posted by Chicago48
at January 7, 2009 7:26 PM
comment #9
BurmaShave
says ...
So this makes two arms dealers Mickey will be playing next year. I'm also thrilled by the idea of him doing a Russian accent. I want the full Brando, by which I mean as cheesy as possible.
Posted by BurmaShave
at January 7, 2009 11:20 PM
comment #10
actionman
says ...
I like the idea of Sam Rockwell as the other villain even more.
Posted by actionman
at January 8, 2009 6:50 AM
comment #11
irvingberlinalexanderputz
says ...
Mickey Rourke should hold out to play an aged, Dark-Knight era Bruce Wayne.
Posted by irvingberlinalexanderputz
at January 8, 2009 8:56 PM
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