Samuel Jackson Cast As Nick Fury In ‘Iron Man 2′ …And May Even Get His Own Pic

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• ugh I was hoping they were going to cast someone else. I’m just tired of the Sam Jackson shtick – I already know the performance he’s going to give. Couldn’t they have come up with someone more exciting…

  Comment by walt — Wednesday February 25, 2009 @ 10:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• You “don’t do Geek”, Nikki? Oh, come on… your Oscar blog read like something off of AICN. Your superior attitude is totally unwarranted- and reminds me of the same smugness I see behind all of the worst comic book movie adaptations (not to mention the unearned pretensions behind most of this year’s Oscar nominees- can anyone really say that BEN BUTTON is a better movie than, say, IRON MAN?) I actually agree with the people complaining about too many superhero movies-juist like I agree with that section of readers that complain about too many superhero COMICS! But this IS where the top talent (in BOTH fields) is working now, and looking down on the whole body of work is just leaving you on the side of the road, looking clueless…

  Comment by cst — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 4:08am PST  Reply to this post

• “I don’t do geek” : that’s not what you said last night!

  Comment by Fred — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 7:09am PST  Reply to this post

• It’s too bad you don’t do geek, Nikki.

  Marvel Studios’ plan to interweave their franchise pictures into a larger, shared-universe tapestry is one of the more ambitious and exciting production initiatives in the past several years. As Marvel does not have a slate of films beyond these movies, they have no box office cushion to fall back on if one or two of these movies underperforms. It’s a huge financial risk and I think that it is one of the more interesting ongoing stories in the entertainment business today. It is too bad your prejudices have blinded you to that.

  Comment by FilmBuffRich — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 7:43am PST  Reply to this post

• wow. Someone working with Marvel Studios got what they needed “money wise” ?

  Comment by bailee — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 9:12am PST  Reply to this post

• I think he’s overrated and chews the scenery. He’s not the only black actor for that role!

  Comment by lagrk — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 10:32am PST  Reply to this post

• I got nothing against Samuel Jackson but I think hes over-played and over used and hes a bad choice for Nick Fury. Nick Fury is white, it’s OK to hire white actors.

  Comment by Mexicat — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 11:32am PST  Reply to this post

• If I’m not mistaken, Sam Jackson likes to brag that he has the largest box office total of any actor or some nonsense to this effect. If true that’s partly due to the fact that he did some of the Star Wars movies. Of course, he was so wooden in that role that he would have started a fire with just a spark.
  The Star Wars movies he was in were successful at the box office DESPITE his participation not because of it.

  Comment by I am not Sam — Thursday February 26, 2009 @ 11:45am PST  Reply to this post