Iron Man ruled. It was the best action movie of the summer with infinite rewatchability, but Iron Man 2 is going to be even better. Why? Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell.

Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell are in talks to star as the villains in “Iron Man 2,” being directed by Jon Favreau.

Marvel has been keeping a very tight lid on the script for the sequel, being written by Justin Theroux, but it is known that Rourke would play a tattooed Russian heavy named Ivan who becomes Whiplash, a man with deadly, technologically enhanced coils.

Rockwell would play Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire businessman and a rival of industrialist Anthony Stark, AKA Iron Man, being played by a returning Robert Downey Jr.

I wasn’t happy when D-Jay stepped out, but this just puts the movie right back on my radar screen and makes it my most anticipated movie of the next few years. I love the way that the villains keep with the theme of the first one, capitalists fighting eachother. The days of villains who want to destroy the world are long gone and I will happily replace them with villains who just want to be rich. It almost makes too much sense really.