More IRON MAN 2 Casting News Blunt is out Johannson is in
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- By drvenkman
We just told you about Mickey Rourke’s involvement with Iron Man 2 and how Yes, he will be in the movie. Now we get to follow that up with more ‘Iron Man 2′ casting news. As you know Emily Blunt was pursued to play the character Black Widow, but due to 20th Century FOX and ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ there is a major scheduling conflict. Everyone hope that they could work it out so that she could do both films, but it looks like that dream is dead. It was confirmed that Blunt is out of ‘Iron Man 2′ and taking her place as rumored earlier will be Scarlett Johannson. Apparently she auditioned for the role first time around and didn’t get it. I guess she was their back up plan. DeadlineHollywood says:
…unlike Mickey’s quote, the deal for her is “just the opposite, a terrible deal made by CAA,” one of my insiders says. “It’s as bad as any deal that I’ve heard. It’s lowball money. And it ties her to countless movies, including that ensemble The Avengers, which is what makes this brutal for a lot of actors.”
Wow! That sucks! But you get what you pay for. Johnnson is very good looking but damn can she not act. Maybe Jon Favreau will work wonders on her and make her a better actress. Thats all we can hope for anyway. So to wrap it up, Scarlett Johannson is set to play Black Widow. I honestly don’t see Johansson in the role of Black Widow, she doesn’t really fit the character at all. To me she seems way to soft and pillowy. She doesn’t seem like a girl that could go out and kick some ass or have that kind of super hero presence. What do you think of that?
Source: DeadlineHollywood
I was overjoyed by Mickey Rourke’s casting and then this announced killed that. I really don’t see how she’ll be able to hold her own against RDJ.
NOOOOOO!! *cries* Curses be upon her. Why does she get to worm her way into all the movies I care about???? And..every other movie… grrrrr. Not a happy camper here. -_- I don’t want to be looking at her in IRON MAN 2, fer cryin’ out loud! Kick her, Gwyneth!! (Wait.. SHE is still in it, right??? Meep.)
It’s just a comic book adaptation not a work of Shakespeare. She wasn’t bad In Lost in Translation.
Some video shakespeare sucks – if they take the time and care they did for #1 I’m sure it will be bloody brilliant – and not a crappy Kenneth Brannagh straight to video rendition (Oh gods I pray for Thor!)
Even so – Robert Downey is personally invested – as said by himself to make sure his movie franchise doesn’t suck. I love him!
And – Scarlett can act the pants off of most of her peers – its just a fact.
Hey Scarlett haters. I thought this site was called geektyrant, not gay tyrant. Ghost World is a Geeks boner fest. I for one, can not get enough of her. If you are women that posted the Scarlett hate, you are just jealous.
Personally, I really hated Lost in Translation, despite loving Murray and Japanese culture. I don’t blame Scarlett specifically, but I can’t say I was impressed by her in it (Murray didn’t impress me in it either). *BUT* The Island was fun, and she was good in Ghost World, so I’ll keep an open mind for her as Black Widow. I mean, Paltrow pleasantly surprised me with her Pepper (yes, I’m a die-hard Pepperony shipper now, and HELLO! alliteration XD), and I fully expected to be annoyed by *her*, so you never know …. Oh, and a_tronix, way to be sexist and not respect opinions that differ from yours! Out of curiosity, if someone is a *guy* and hates Scarlett, what’s the reason then? He *must* be gay?
AH, I didn’t pay close enough attention to a_tronix’s post; I see that he *is* in fact saying any guy who doesn’t love her must be gay. Now, I’m a *bi* woman that likes Scarlett sometimes and dislikes her other times, so now what? I’m only jealous half the time?
And does this mean any woman who likes her all the time is gay? XD
i definitely agree, tronix. first of all, she is hot as hell. and makes Gwyneth look like an irish whore with roast beef as a vagina. (even though i still like her as an actor). and secondly i think for the most part she has just been undercast. i believe that she can be a better actor, because even i can admit that she’s not the best, but definitely not the worst. i work at a movie theater and a saw some of her in ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’. that is her latest movie and i think she did pretty well. i think with the people she will be working with in this movie she can’t possibly be bad. because with people like Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr involved in this movie i believe any word related to “bad” will not exist in this movie that i know will be amazing.
I think its fine. I dont have any real positive or real negative opinion about it. I probably would have prefered Blunt but mostly because she looks a bit more like Black Widow. No one really knows who would have been better. Scarlett has been decent to good in all the movies Ive seen her in and she was very good in ‘Vicky Christina Barcelona’. I think she will pull it off and be just fine.
I obviously didn’t put too much thought into it, but I will try to clarify and say that I wasn’t passing judgement on men that disagree with the casting of Scarlett, merely stating in very bruting terms that I found it difficult to understand a straight man not enjoying the chioice of Scarlett Johannson. The next question as to girls liking her and being all the way gay. Well there is no good way to answer that, and not that this matters, but I am a straight man that believes anyone can be whatever they want to be.
Me personally I was hopeing they would consider the lead girl from Resident Evil. She was perfect in my mind.