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Emily Blunt Definitely Out of Iron Man 2?

February 23, 2009

The Playlist reports that Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau was interviewed on Oscar night and he said that Fox exercised its option for Emily Blunt to star in Gulliver's Travels causing her to become unavailable for the sequel.

Favreau didn't say anything about Scarlett Johansson possibly taking over the role of Russian superspy Natasha Romanoff, who doubles as Black Widow.

The only thing he said about Mickey Rourke is that he "isn't officially cast but that he is a fan."

Meanwhile, Robert Downey Jr. said last night before the Oscars started that they are still trying to get Rourke to play a villain. He was quoted as saying that they are "slaving away on a hot script" for Iron Man 2.

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COMMENTS (30)

Posted by:

Candyman

February 23, 2009

Scarlett will kill this movie! i will say this again Scarlett will make this movie suck! ever since she started wearing her kmart make up and lost weight she looks too different. Don't get me wrong, she did look amazing in the island.

Posted by:

noah

February 23, 2009

...i dont know about suck. i mean we all were also skeptical about heath ledger as the joker too..it wouldnt be bad. i could see it.

Posted by:

Frozone

February 23, 2009

"slaving away on a hot script"

If the script was the key factor, they wouldn't have that much trouble casting their villains. They cast Sam Rockwell without any script to show him, after all.

Anyhow, one dosn't sign on a movie like Iron Man for the quality of the writing, so give Mickey some doughs or leave it at that, Marvel.

Posted by:

MIkeHill

February 23, 2009

Emily Blunt should try to drop out of Gulliver's Travels. It sounds SOOOOOOOOOO DUMB! ScarJo in Iron Man 2 would SUCK ASS!

Posted by:

The Dude

February 23, 2009

I still don't see what the big fuss is about Emily Blunt. Sure she kinda looks the part but she's not really that experienced yet.

Posted by:

SW Fan

February 23, 2009

To Mike, she can't drop out, it was reported that Fox owns her for a couple more movies (per her contract with them), so movies with Fox is priority over any other project with another studio.

Posted by:

Steve T. NY

February 23, 2009

Scarlett would be awesome! She has a killer body in "He's just not that into you" and i find her to be extremely sexy. I think she woud do just fine, and put her in a tight outfit and i'd pay 12 bucks just for that!!

Posted by:

JPizzle

February 23, 2009

It's really too bad that Emily Blunt is no longer doing this movie. She was absolutely perfect for the part. Johansson on the other hand may not be lean enough to pass as an extremely agile spy. I'm not calling her fat, in fact I think she's hot as hell. It's just that she is very voluptuous and may not be believable to have her doing certain things that the Black Widow would do.

Candyman,
I totally agree with you with the whole Kmart makeup thing! Hahaha!

Posted by:

Richard Parker

February 23, 2009

Oh, I'm so sorry, Candyman. Scarlett Johansson has dropped looking like Barbie and has started actually acting, and we don't want our girls in superhero movies to actually act; they just need to look good. That's gonna be too bad.

Posted by:

DarrenSuds

February 23, 2009

Black Widow is a supporting role. It would be extremely difficult for a supporting role to kill an entire movie.