War Machine To Play "Significant Part" In Iron Man 2

Published on August 11, 2009 by Craig Sharp · View Comments

MTV got the chance recently to speak to the man charged with bringing one of the Iron Man series’ biggest characters to the silver screen. In Iron Man 2, actor Don Cheadle will take over the role of Col. James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes and with it he’ll get the opportunity to don a shiny new set of armour for the first time on screen – as War Machine!

“What’s interesting is that there are so many different iterations of War Machine and Tony Stark from all the different comics,” Cheadle told MTV News. “It was really trying to find the common thread, the through-line… [And] the through-line really is their friendship. They’re actually really good friends.”

That isn’t to say that in Iron Man 2 their friendship doesn’t suffer it’s fair share of problems, as Cheadle was quick to point out:

“We kept asking ourselves: How does that play out with Tony Stark being an independent contractor doing what he wants to do, and Rhodes actually being in the military,” he said. “There’s a real chain of command he has to follow. What’s the conflict that creates?”

If you didn’t get to see the recently leaked comic con footage before it vanished from the web at the hands of Marvel’s lawyers, at the very end of the clip the audience were treated to their first look at a VERY tooled up War Machine, and judging from that clip, Cheadle is bang on the money when he says that the Rhodes character plays a much larger part in this installment! That said, Cheadle has been careful not to give away any real plot details, and judging from the footage I’d say he strays a little towards the dark side in this movie – so he’s definitely one to watch out for in the coming months!

Source: MTV Splashpage