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Now that his career is resurrected from the ashes thanks to Darren Aronofsky and The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke is deservedly hot again and in demand. Currently, he’s being courted by Millennium Films and Lionsgate to join the remake of Conan The Barbarian, titled just Conan, which is the Marcus Nispel-directed reinvention of the Robert E. Howard creation. Rourke is negotiating to play Corin, the father of Conan who’s played by Jason Momoa. At the same time, Rourke is negotiating for the Tarsem Singh-directed War of the Gods and the part of King Hyperion, the ruler of Ancient Greece who does battle with the divines. Henry Cavill also stars.
Conan begins shooting in Bulgaria in late March and War of the Gods begins April 7th, so it is possible he might need to make a choice between the 2 projects. Both offers come as Rourke is now being seen in trailers for Iron Man 2 in the role of Ivan Vanko/Whiplash, the villain who goes mano a mano against Robert Downey Jr’ s Tony Stark. The fervor for Rourke is a good lesson to remember for all of those actors testing for the role of Captain America and bristling about the low paycheck. Reps for Rourke, who was coming off an Oscar-nominated turn in The Wrestler, went through a bare-knuckle negotiation on Iron Man 2, with Marvel initially offering him just $250,000. But the buzz? Priceless.
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I don’t know if Micky is the Bode Miller of acting, or vise versa, but they both seeme to have gotten it !
None of my business and with all due respect but i do wish that if possible Rourke would find an excellent surgeon to de-lift his face so we could see this guy play more than what he seems to be getting offered now,i.e. all the various freaks and cartoon characters. His grill was obviously pulled back and up tighter than the lid on a Cuban bongo and there might just be a way to cut him some slack now and get him more evenly back into the game. I don’t know… I respect the guy but not the doctor who jobbed him.
Mickey is like the modern day Norma Desmond, and he’s ready for his closeup, or is it his monkey?
For some reason he can have bad plastic surgery and get away with it – it will not ruin his career but simply add to his personal history of pathos and mystique. He is the one person that can somehow make it work to his advantage…unlike most male actors who’ve had obvious bad work – Burt Reynolds comes to mind…