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Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Opens: May 7, 2010

Warren Ellis' acclaimed Wildstorm comic series is adapted in this Summit
Entertainment production starring Bruce Willis as a retired government hitman who gets targeted by the same outfit he once worked for. Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren co-star, with Robert Schwentke (The Time Traveler's Wife) directing from a script by the Whiteout writing team of Erich and Jon Hoeber.

What We Think: The trailers have got us jazzed, but the abundance of new characters and the
demands they place on the story (Favreau has promised no less than eight storylines) make us worry that Iron Man 2 might be prone to the same franchise bloat that felled the mighty Spider-Man.

Cool to Know: The plot of Iron Man 2 bears an eerie resemblance to that of Rocky III, which we were the first to point out back in December.