Don Cheadle’s Armor Wars, initially deliberate as a Marvel Studios tv collection, will as an alternative be a movie with the identical creators nonetheless connected.
The upcoming Marvel Studios function Armor Wars, initially deliberate as a six-episode Disney+ TV collection, is being reworked to a theatrical film.
As reported by THR, the venture will retain its star Don Cheadle, reprising his long-running Marvel Cinematic Universe position as James Rhodes aka Conflict Machine, in addition to its head author Yassir Lester. Though no launch window for Armor Wars had been introduced when the change was made, it is anticipated that it’ll now be pushed again in Marvel’s slate of upcoming options.
Armor Wars was introduced in 2020 as a part of Disney’s Investor Day 2020, with its emblem being revealed extra lately, at Disney’s D23 Expo. The present was meant to adapt the 1987 arc from Marvel Comics by which Tony Stark — performed by Robert Downey Jr. within the MCU till the character’s demise in Avengers: Endgame — found that his armor know-how had fallen into the incorrect arms and was being utilized by villains for their very own nefarious functions. Iron Man and his allies subsequently entered into an arms race to guard the world from the superior weapons he had created. The favored Armor Wars funny story was written by Bob Layton and David Micheline with illustration by Mark D. Brilliant and Barry Windsor-Smith.
Iron Man’s Armored Legacy
Cheadle described the Armor Wars adaptation saying, “And as Marvel does, it is also a possibility to take the mythology and tip it on its head a bit bit and provide you with alternative ways to inform the story, so it is doing that and has achieved that in spades.” The actor additionally addressed the variations between his character Rhodey and Tony despite the shut friendship they shared: “I do not know, I imply I believe that Rhodey is his personal dude. I do not assume that anybody can actually step into Tony Stark or Iron Man’s sneakers, I believe he did that in addition to anybody might ever do it. However I believe we’ll study quite a bit about what Rhodey does need and who he’s and what his… place within the firmament of MCU will in the end be.”
The Armor Wars film will take its place in an ever-growing checklist of interconnected tales coming from Marvel Studios, together with Secret Invasion, which is able to star Cheadle alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn, likewise returning to their roles from earlier films. Secret Invasion is ready to premiere on Disney+ in 2023.
A launch date for Armor Wars has not but been introduced.
Supply: The Hollywood Reporter
