Who to cast as Iron Man?

Originally posted by Praylu
I suppose we can agree to disagree regarding Bale's state of popularity among movie-goers, however I do believe this link speaks for itself: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=christianbale.htm

Routh as Superman is up to personal opinion.

You provoked it 😛

Will do, 👆

Praylu never fails to amuse, 😛

Routh sucked... a copy is never as good as the original... period.

Originally posted by pr1983
Routh sucked... a copy is never as good as the original... period.

Singer wanted an unknown who resembled Reeve (voice, appearance, etc.) as much as possible so it was bound to happen even if it wasn't Routh and an A-list type actor would not have worked for obvious reasons. With Singer on-board no actor would have been what we wanted him to be...sadly.

Originally posted by pr1983
Routh sucked... a copy is never as good as the original... period.

Originally posted by Praylu
Singer wanted an unknown who resembled Reeve (voice, appearance, etc.) as much as possible so it was bound to happen even if it wasn't Routh and an A-list type actor would not have worked for obvious reasons. With Singer on-board no actor would have been what we wanted him to be...sadly.

I wanted someone new... someone more... i dunno... mature looking? More, man of steel who's been doing this gig for years sorta thing...

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
Like when you Xerox a colour photo...

Either that is a cheap shot or you agree with me... 😛

Originally posted by pr1983
I wanted someone new... someone more... i dunno... mature looking? More, man of steel who's been doing this gig for years sorta thing...

Either that is a cheap shot or you agree with me... 😛

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
The latter of course... 😖hifty:

lol... its 6.30 am... i need some sleep... but yeah... people agree with me... more fame! Later...

Okay, tyring to steer the ship back on course, I'll post my thoughts.

I have always thought of Tony Stark as a Bond 007 type kinda guy, but with a hell of a lot more depth. He is smart, very smart. He designed a suit of armour that can do fly, and fight and parallel park etc. He also has the whole great alchohoholic side to him. So he is a smart Bond, but nicely sozzled. So why not the one man who should have been Bond, but missed out on to a wimp...

Of course I'm talking about Clive Owen.

He has a great voice (and lets face it, it's going to be a lot of voice through mask work), and is not too big an actor to ruin it, but not too small an actor to not live up to his role.

Thoughts?

I like Clive Owen very much as Iron Man.

I bet you they will look at Colin Farrell, to play Tony.

i cant picture Clive Owen with a mustache. and they wont get colin ferrel, they're going for some unknown actor. clive owen is like a b-list celeb a list under the radar.

They'd have to go with the cool goatee thing Tony's had for the last few years. The msutache is a little dated...

Personally, I can't see anyone else who can fill this role as well as Clive Owen.

Good actor + not to big for his boots = keep fan boys happy

does he keep fanboys happy?? ive only heard his name from a couple people here.

clive duznt let u down hed be a good tony/ last i heard the dude that played Angel wanted the part in some body building magazine GOD LET HIM BE JOKING!

the actor that played Angel had an annoying voice.

just throwing a name in to the iron man casting

what about Karl Urban (lotr/doom)

I really like Karl Urban, he's a really good actor, but I just think he's too young to play Tony. Anyone can do a good job once in the suit, so it's really casting Tony Stark that's the problem.

Why does every bloody superhero thread have clive owen as a suggestion to play a superhero? First its the Superman forum, now this?

The guy is just... wrong... wrong dammit!

End of outburst... 😮

karl urban could do it, for some reason i see ashton kutcher becoming a superhero soon, not sure who he could be, just got an inkling feeling that he's looking for one, maybe a young or just as hal jordan... he could pull that off after seeing that disaster film he was in recently... what do you guys think, he plays serious roles just as good as comic roles

ComingSoon.net just reported that Robert Downey Jr. will be Iron Man.

He's smarmy enough and can definitely play an addict...

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=85852

I'm happy with the choice. Very happy actually.

At first it seemed a little off, but Downey's a great actor and i think he could make a great Tony Stark.

Now i'm excited for this movie.