One of the great little tips of the hat in Iron Man to those who know the comic book was the character “Rhodes” (at the time played by Terrance Howard and now about to be played by Don Cheadle) looking back at one of the Iron Man suites in Tony’s lab… starring at it for a moment and then saying “next time baby”. Those “in the know” recognize that he’s talking about War Machine (Rhodes gets a suite of his own and calls himself War Machine in the comics).
With the character coming back for Iron Man 2, and the fact that director Jon Favreau has stated that he’ll have a bigger role to play this time, there has been a lot of speculation that we’d actually see Rhodes become War Machine in this movie… and in an interview with Empire Online… it at least LOOKS like he’s just confirmed that. Read what he said:
And what of Stark’s friend and confidant Jim Rhodes? Favreau hinted that Rhodes, now played by Don Cheadle, will be tooling up big-time when he dons his own armoured suit as War Machine. “Rhodesy is definitely stepping up in this film. Let me put it this way: Tony’s not the only person with technology in the film.”
So is that it? Did Jon Favreau just confirm for us that Don Cheadle will be suiting up as War Machine in Iron Man 2? That would be sweet.
