Tom Cruise Back in the Iron Man Mix

I agree 100%, Cruise would be a horrible choice. They need to find someone, like Christian Bale in Batman Begins, who can sell the part, not consume the part!

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I agree with Joseph. They were been able to sell superhero pics without having to drop 25 mil for a name. Now that the audience for such films has grown, there's really no excuse for not digging into the plethora of fine up and comings.

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a younger Tom Selleck would work. or maybe Matthew Fox

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Look at photos of Cruizy ( Cruise and Crazy ) next to people whose heights are known. If he's an inch above 5' 3" I have a chance with Nicole Kidman.

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Nooooooooooooooo! Somebody has to stop this. It's a disaster. One of my biggest problems with Daredevil was that it had Afflack. Tom Cruise is deranged. He should be playing a baddie who gets bumped off in the first 5 minutes of the movie.

Please Mr. Favreau, if you are reading this, don't do this to the fans.

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yeah a fresh face would be good, but the guy has got to be older and almost a little burned out. this is tony stark we are talking about here. someone like a george clooney type but maybe not george clooney himself cuz i don't know if he could pull it off.

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I know I don't want to see Vince Vaughn or Ron Livingston (or Faizon Love, for that matter) as Iron Man either.

I like Jon Favreau a lot. I catch "Dinner for Five" on IFC whenever I can. That said, if Jon has a problem, it's a little too much loyalty to his buds. I have a feeling Favreau's casting list for the title role may be significantly too short entering the process. I'd rather see Tom Cruise than Vaughn or Livingston.

Overall, I'd probably pick Viggo Mortensen. The role of Tony Stark requires someone that can easily alternate between looking fit one minute, and like they are death's door the next, due to Stark's heart problems . Mortensen has the kind of facial features that can be made to look like a death mask with minimal makeup.

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Mickey Rourke maybe?

He's fit yet thanks to puffing cancer sticks all his life can be made to look like hell in no time...

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I know its not relevant but...I can't believe CelebHeights.com actually EXISTS

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Wow--so much for that MySpace page Fav set up... I and loads of other IM fans posted our casting suggestions and I'm pretty sure most of us were against Cruise. Besides, everyone knows that ultimately it doesn't matter who's in the picture just so long as it has advertising out the wazoo. If the movie fail to get people in theater seats after the right advertising it's not going to matter who is in it, at least, in my opinion.

Ugh...I can just imagine Tom Cruise's absurd, possessed acting "style" as Tony Stark. "I'M just having a few drinks! What's wrong with THAT?"

Cruise's Stark would make Shatner's Kirk seem like Stewart's Picard.

Wow, I haven't said something that uber-geeking in quite some time... but anyone who saw Cruise all-too-enthusiastically describe traffic pattern analyzation in MI3 knows I'm right...

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The height issue is a non-issue, it's hollywood. People said similar things about Michael Keaton, too. He did okay.

That said, Cruise would not be my choice, either. I always saw Stark not as a pretty-boy.

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I thought Sam Rockwell would have been a good choice, but I think he is maybe too short. How tall is Nicolas Cage?

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I wouldn't mind Cruise in the role of Tony Stark if he could play more than one character: the asexual, tightly wound, humourless guy he's been playing for about a decade or so.

Going with a talented, lower profile actor is the best course for movies like this. Hugh Jackman *is* Wolverine in X-men (and one of the very few things I actually like in those movies), and Christian Bale was great as Bruce Wayne/Batman (too bad the costume was so damned ugly). And back in the day, Christopher Reeve *was* Superman; I don't think he needed sculpted muscles on his costume, either.

Keep Cruise away from Iron Man for God's sake.

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I have an out of no where idea, how about Brad Pitt. He has the charisma to pull off the roll without people laughing it off behind his back.

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I never considered Brad Pitt for the role, but if they're going to go with a name actor, I really wouldn't mind him; but I think I'd have trouble suspending my disbelief and accepting him as a technological genius, though.

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I barely remember the Iron Man cartoon so I googled Tony Stark and the first thing that came to mind was Howard Hughes then Leonardo DiCaprio which I have a hard time seeing as Iron Man. I wonder if Hollywood is gonna try and keep actors to only one comic character so that they can do cross overs... ie: I wouldn't mind seeing a Superman/Batman crossover.

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This film will flop if Cruise comes anywhere near it. Keep the crazy cult members away!

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Or Nick Cage with a moustache....or Billy Zane maybe..

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Oded Fehr!!!! PERFECT FOR THE FREAKEN PART! He played in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns! He was Ardeth Bay in those movies. Fits the part to the T!

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