Rumors are bad for you

[trinityvixen]

Unless they're spoilers for Heroes that might be a sign of things improving! (Uh, spoilers, duh.) The show would be hard-pressed to make things worse (though it will, of course, try), but a few of these spoilers are steps in the right direction.

No Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2!? I hope this isn't true. I loves me some Don Cheadle, but he doesn't have the same presence as Terrence Howard. I don't think he'd be a great straight-man to Robert Downey Jr. This has to be fixed or made up, right?

What a difference a day makes: goodbye Ten? I swear io9 was just saying Tennant for now and forever or at least through until Moffat's first season on the show. Now maybe not so much?

Comments

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

I doubt Marvel thinks Cheadle is not bankable.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

He is bankable, I suppose, but he doesn't have the tough-guy cred that Terrence Howard does. How they shoot Iron Man 2 will determine whether he walks away with any of that. I also think that Howard is a better straight man than Cheadle. Cheadle is a fantastic sarcastic ass, but I don't think Robert Downey Jr. needs an echo or the competition.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

You don't think Cheadle can play a straight man? Have you *seen* Hotel Rwanda and Crash?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, but "serious role" is different from straight man. Straight man requires a seriousness that is also comic. From what I've seen of Cheadle's serious and comic work, I'm not entirely positive he's straight-man material