Articles tagged with: Mickey Rourke
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Mickey Rourke To Star In Iron Man 2, Also Every Film Ever Made
Yesterday we implied that Mickey Rourke's comeback would consist of The Wrestler, a rubbish Stallone movie and nothing else. Turns out we couldn't have been more wrong. Mickey Rourke is hot property again - and he's proving it by also starring in Iron Man 2. According to reports, Iron Man director Jon Favreau is keen to have Rourke play the movie's villain. It's bittersweet news, really - Mickey Rourke must be thrilled by the enthusiasm in which he's been re-embraced by Hollywood, but it'll be a bitter blow to The Puppet Corpse Of Orson Welles. He really had his eye on that part, you know.
Yesterday we implied that Mickey Rourke's comeback would consist of The Wrestler, a rubbish Stallone movie and nothing else. Turns out we couldn't have been more wrong. Mickey Rourke is hot property again - and he's proving it by also starring in Iron Man 2. According to reports, Iron Man director Jon Favreau is keen to have Rourke play the movie's villain. It's bittersweet news, really - Mickey Rourke must be thrilled by the enthusiasm in which he's been re-embraced by Hollywood, but it'll be a bitter blow to The Puppet Corpse Of Orson Welles. He really had his eye on that part, you know.
Mickey Rourke Seals Comeback With Gormless Stallone Movie
This is Mickey Rourke's year - by Christmas he'll have won an Oscar, become the biggest star on Earth and colonised the moon. That's if you believe the hype. If you don't believe the hype you'll realise that Mickey Rourke was lucky enough to be cast in a movie that required a washed-up squidge-faced dumbbell who cries a lot as a star. But either way, thanks to The Wrestler Mickey Rourke is back in business. So how is Mickey Rourke going to continue of his run of critically-acclaimed highbrow movies? By co-starring in a low-rent film about Sylvester Stallone killing everything. Whoops.
This is Mickey Rourke's year - by Christmas he'll have won an Oscar, become the biggest star on Earth and colonised the moon. That's if you believe the hype. If you don't believe the hype you'll realise that Mickey Rourke was lucky enough to be cast in a movie that required a washed-up squidge-faced dumbbell who cries a lot as a star. But either way, thanks to The Wrestler Mickey Rourke is back in business. So how is Mickey Rourke going to continue of his run of critically-acclaimed highbrow movies? By co-starring in a low-rent film about Sylvester Stallone killing everything. Whoops.
