Don Cheadle Teases How War Machine Will Be Explored in Marvel's ARMOR WARS

James "Rhodey" Rhodes, aka War Machine, has played a big role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe over the years, but the character will finally be the focus of his very own solo movie with Armor Wars. The character’s story arc will pick back up in the upcoming Secret Invasion Disney+ series, which will be followed by Armor Wars.

During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Don Cheadle teased how his character will be explored in the Marvel movie, explaining that for the first time, we’ll get to see what makes Rhodey tick. He said:

"The fun part about it is that we're going to continue to explore Rhodey and — in some ways for the first time — get to see what makes him tick. We understand his physical challenges, but we haven't really yet dug into a lot of his emotional and psychological [challenges]."

We don’t know much about Marvel's adaptation of Armor Wars, or the story that it will tell. But we do know it will be a sequel to Secret Invasion, that Yassir Lester is writing the script, and Cheadle will be joined by Walton Goggins, who is returning to reprise his role as Sonny Burch from Ant-Man and the Wasp.

Armor Wars was originally planned as a series, but was reworked as a movie because the studio was committed to “getting the story told the right way and in that process realized that a feature was better suited for the project.”

Marvel producer Nate Moore (Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) previously opened up about why Armor Wars is the kind of project that needs to be a film versus a series, saying:

"When you're talking about a show that wants to be about seeing all the cool armors and Don Cheadle interacting with all these armors and, sort of, the legacy of Tony Stark? That became kind of cost prohibitive to do as a show."

We don’t have a release date yet, but are you excited about this Armor Wars movie?