A newFantastic Four MCU movie casting rumor has fans suspecting Marvel Studios may introduce a character who famously replaced the Human Torch on the team.
24.12.2023 - 17:19 / polygon.com / Robert Downey-Junior / Christmas Eve / Scarlett Johansson / Tony Stark / Jon Favreau
Forget the debate over whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie because it obviously is and there are more pressing matters: Like, is What If…?’s Die Hard-spoofing Christmas episode actually a better Iron Man 2 than Iron Man 2?
I admit to recency bias. What If…? season 2 kicked off earlier this month, and the episode in question — which finds Darcy from the Thor movies and Happy Hogan organizing a holiday party at Avengers Tower — only just dropped on Christmas Eve. But with 13 years of distance from Iron Man 2, I’m ready to make bold MCU claims beyond “it bad.” Director Jon Favreau got some things right in his sloppy 2010 sequel, and in a 30-minute ode to Die Hard, What If…? reminds us of one win: Sam Rockwell was a perfect Justin Hammer. We just didn’t get much of him at the time.
Iron Man 2 (which based on many reports was written on the fly by Favreau, star Robert Downey Jr., and Tropic Thunder’s Justin Theroux) is a mess. The film flits with Tony’s Demon in a Bottle arc, tries and fails to make a character out of Mickey Rourke’s grunting, cockatoo-cuddling Whiplash, hastily promotes Rhodey to War Machine and Nick Fury to a true Avengers wrangler, introduces Natasha Romanoff in the most grating way imaginable, and gives Elon Musk a cameo that looks worse and worse as the days go by. Pretty bad movie!
But Favreau also cast Sam Rockwell as weapons manufacturer Justin Hammer. In an alternate universe, he was the centerpiece villain, the slimeball alternative to Tony Stark who could keep up with the one-liners. In Iron Man 2 he’s a plot device to get Iron Man fighting armored drones. But speaking of alternate universes, What If…? has come to his rescue.
What If…? season 2’s third episode imagines what could have happened after the events of Iron Man 2. In this world, Hammer still hijacked the Stark Expo, wielded Tony’s technology against the hero, and wound up in prison for his wrongdoings. But Hammer didn’t grow in the slammer — he festered. And when he got out, he proceeded to Stark Tower, to pull a Hans Gruber on Stark during the Avengers holiday gala.
Not every big-name Marvel actor has returned to voice their characters in What If…?; since season 1, Mark Wingert and Lake Bell have been doing a shockingly quality job recreating the vocal tics of Iron Man and Black Widow as previously played by Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson. But the win here is getting Rockwell back as Justin Hammer, who is firing off cackling Christmas-themed puns like they’re Mark 46 armor rounds. He is living for a kind of mayhem that Iron Man 2 just did not provide for someone who can be this wicked.
While Tony and his fellow Avengers do eventually show up to save the day — get ready to see Captain America in an elf costume
A newFantastic Four MCU movie casting rumor has fans suspecting Marvel Studios may introduce a character who famously replaced the Human Torch on the team.
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