Iron Man 2 News That Both Rules and Sucks at the Same Time

 

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On the tail end of the news that Marvel Studios decided to stop fucking around and wasting everyone’s time by actually offering Samuel L. Jackson a real salary (not a bad idea if you want to rope someone into 9 fucking movies), comes the very recent news that they also decided against trying to screw over a resurgent Mickey Rourke to the tune of $250k, and offer him some respectable scratch as well. Look $250k is a lot of money to you and me, but you don’t fucking toss what amounts to a Hollywood tip to a veteran in the middle of reclaiming all his glory if you hope he’s going to help carry a franchise entry as a big time supervillain. Also, you don’t fuck with Samuel L. Jackson. Period. I have to say that Marvel was on the fast-track to squandering a lot of the goodwill they generated last summer by showing faith in creative teams to handle their properties with guidance and care. In a span of what seems like months they essentially followed up a bunch of deserved hype by doing their level best to undo every step they’d made in the right direction. Lucky for us, I guess someone beat the shit out of Joe Quesada before he could continue to posses the living and influence the studio into more Quesada like blunders. Granted, Quesada probably had nothing at all to do with this, but I think he’s a tool and the studio’s crappy decisions seemed very much in tune with his own terrible ideas for the world of Marvel. So the day is saved for now, and Marvel can get back to making a bad ass set of flicks to wow us with until Iron Man 2 comes around. In less pleasant news, it seems that through no fault of Marvel’s (STRANGE, I KNOW!!!), those rumors about Emily Blunt being replaced with Scarlett Johannson are no longer rumors, but sad reality. Apparently, Blunt was forced to fulfill a previous contract obligation elsewhere, so they had to go with ScarHo, who apparently they originally turned down. If it weren’t for the fact that ScarHo apparently got absolutely shafted in the deal, and that there are so many good pieces of geek stuff floating around like the new Terminator and Star Trek trailers, I think I’d be even sadder about this. Oh well. Back to the grind.