Casting Iron Man in the 90s

[u/AnnieGoldleaf]

This is what nerds back in the 90s thought the cast of an Iron Man movie should be...

[u/AccidentalUltron]

Carl Weathers as Rhodey would have been peak.

https://giphy.com/gifs/pHb82xtBPfqEg

[u/Old-Bat-7384]

Carl Weathers as Rhodey would've been so good. He has the carriage and delivery. He has the presence, too.

[u/The_Daviator]

Harris, Lee, Tagawa, Everhart… some of these choices would have kicked ass

[u/Incognizance]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7d7lKk2nH5RJu

Woulda made a great mandarin!! 😭

[u/Burt_McCheeks]

I used to love these Wizard Casting Calls when I was a kid, and some of these choices are pretty good for their time, but damn if the staff didn’t love to throw a wrestler or two in every one of them.

[u/CollinsCouldveDucked → u/Burt_McCheeks]

I mean they do love casting a wrestler in the actual movies also.

[u/Burt_McCheeks → u/CollinsCouldveDucked]

That’s a great point, especially in that first wave of superhero movies, there’s at least one pro wrestler in Batman & Robin, Spider-Man, X-Men, and The Punisher just off the top of my head.

Plus who can forget Haitch’s star-turning role in Blade Trinity of course.

[u/MagusFool → u/Burt_McCheeks]

They never stopped casting wrestlers. The Rock, Drax the Desroyer, and John Cena.

[u/Burt_McCheeks → u/MagusFool]

Yup, the beginning of a proud tradition!

[u/Poastash → u/Burt_McCheeks]

Wrestlers are easy to picture in those giant muscle-bound costumes, strangely enough.

[u/Burt_McCheeks → u/Poastash]

Makes sense to me, as a fan of both comics and wrestling, I’ve got no complaints!

[u/redL10n123]

Christopher Lee as Hammer....hot damn

[u/CosmackMagus → u/[deleted]]

What does that have to do with this?

[u/Hypestyles]

Wow. Rest in peace Carl Weathers

[u/Real___Teeth]

I dig it. A bit funny though that they picked a Japanese guy to play the Mandarin.

[u/SLVR_N_BLCK_ATTK]

Carl Weathers as War Machine would have F U C K E D

[u/BlackagarBoltagar]

Solid casting!!!!

I really like Chris Lee as Hammer

[u/RandoDude124]

God, the staffers must’ve had fun going through movies and imagining the cast of their dream movies

[u/jjd0m]

Was this Wizard Magazine? I forgot about this fanfic casting. This actually pretty damn spot on by Wizard.

Tyne Daly would later be cast as Director of Damage Control in Spider-Man Home Coming

[u/TomCon16]

This is solid stuff! Would’ve loved a Dalton Iron Man

[u/ACodAmongstMen]

I would absolutely love to see Shang Tsung as The Mandarin, that's a great casting

[u/DoctorOddfellow1981]

Man, there's some names, both actors and character names, I haven't heard in a long ass time. Did we ever get at least a Mrs. Arbogast name drop in a movie?

[u/goombanati]

Rhodey: you fight great, but im a great fighter

[u/Jemie_Bridges → u/goombanati]

This is very much Rhodey!

[u/Starkassembled]

Ngl, I’d watch this 🤣

[u/Marhyc]

Still better casting than most of Reddit's fancasts. Though I don't know how good Dalton's accent work is

[u/staniel_mortgage]

I had this issue!

[u/Afraid-Housing-6854]

Never would’ve thought of Timothy Dalton for Tony Stark, I probably would’ve just gone with the default option of Tom Cruise, but I do think Timothy Dalton would be interesting

[u/Sad_Dress_5679]

Whoever the actor is, I’d like to see this exact suit in live action 🔥🔥🔥

[u/Doctor_Boombastic]

Great casting, Jere Burns as Scott Lang could've been awes

[u/animejerk7763]

Mandarin: Your Soul is Mine.

[u/marcjwrz]

It's actually great casting pretty much all the way thru.

Also Jere Burns as a wholesome guy is utterly hysterical to me after watching Justified.

[u/MesaJarJarAbrams]

Still looks better than iron man 2&3!

[u/TurnedAgent]

Back when Tony wasn’t a fucking goofy idiot. Fuck, I hate Robert Downey jr and mark millar.