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‘Iron Man’ pilot to hit big screen
By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Mar 21, 2007 17:17:04 EDT
Posted : Wednesday Mar 21, 2007 17:17:04 EDT
The Air Force is getting another big screen role in a fantasy world.
As production begins on the movie version of Marvel’s “Iron Man” comic book series, the role of Air Force Lt. Col. James Rhodes is being played by Terrence Howard.
Howard was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in 2006 for his role in “Hustle and Flow” as a small-town pimp trying to find success as a rapper. The same year, he played a television producer in the Best Picture Oscar winner, “Crash.”
Howard spent March 16 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., getting a close look at HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopters and the F-22A Raptor as well as having lunch with airmen.
The movie’s storyline is being kept quiet, but in the comic book series, Rhodes was a Vietnam War helicopter pilot who befriended Iron Man’s creator, Tony Starke, in the jungles of Vietnam.
In the comics Rhodes has occasionally worn Iron Man’s armor, and also fought comic villains under the moniker War Machine.
The role of Starke went to Robert Downey Jr.
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