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It’s supposedly Tom Cruises Superior Ironman

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When did Cruise get associated with any aspect of Iron Man? Especially since RDJ is so beloved in the role. Feel like I didn’t get the memo lol
 
When did Cruise get associated with any aspect of Iron Man? Especially since RDJ is so beloved in the role. Feel like I didn’t get the memo lol
There were rumours from about the late 1990s on that he was going to be cast as Stark; this was before the MCU was a glint in Feige’s eye. IIRC, Nick Cassavates was supposed to direct at one stage. If you google image search Tom Cruise Tony Stark, you can see how some artists seemed to draw the character to look a bit like the actor (to my eyes, anyway).
 
When did Cruise get associated with any aspect of Iron Man? Especially since RDJ is so beloved in the role. Feel like I didn’t get the memo lol
1998 I guess
April 1990, Universal Studios bought the rights to develop Iron Man for the big screen,[41] with Stuart Gordon to direct a low-budget film based on the property. By February 1996, 20th Century Fox had acquired the rights from Universal.[42] In January 1997, Nicolas Cage expressed interest in portraying the character,[43] while in September 1998, Tom Cruise expressed interest in producing as well as starring in an Iron Man film.[44]
 
I don’t think Cruise has played a comic book character yet. Would be a strange one to start with.
 
When did Cruise get associated with any aspect of Iron Man? Especially since RDJ is so beloved in the role. Feel like I didn’t get the memo lol


He was considered for the role in the last 90's and his likeness even made it's way into the Iron Man extremis arc

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Seeing as he's nearing 60 and would probably want a fair amount of control in production I'd say Tom Cruise in further appearances as Iron Man are slim.

Also the reliance on CGI and less practical/green screens would turn him off

This is more like his cameo in "Tropic Thunder" which everyone loved but he's never revisiting.
 
I actually hoped for a while that they’d cast Cruise as the MCU Norman Osborne, making him a Stark-like character and mentor for Peter. But IIRC, No Way Home said that there was no Norman Osborne in that universe.
 
Seeing as he's nearing 60 and would probably want a fair amount of control in production I'd say Tom Cruise in further appearances as Iron Man are slim.

The rumour (which until yesterday's trailer release sounded like a lot of nonsense) was that part of the reason for the longer-than-normal amount of additional shooting on the film was to add cameo's from actors playing alternate versions of characters, one of whom named was Patrick Stewart.

And given that both Cruise and Hayley Atwell have been stuck in Purgatory the last few years trying to finish MI7 any appearance is bound to be short and largely CGI. All-CGI in Atwell's case since Captain Carter is almost Hulk-sized.
 
It's a misdirect. He's actually playing Ralph Bohner's dad.

I honestly don't think that they'll be doing that again. They got a lot of bad feelings even from the more reasonable fans for that not going anywhere, and I don't think its a trick that will be better received when done repeatedly.
 
^Tom Cruise already IS a comic book character all on his own.

Anyway, my main takeaway is that if they're going to tip Stewart appearing as Professor Xavier in the damn trailer then they must have something WAY more surprising up their sleeves.
 
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