According to LA Times blog Hero Complex, in a conversation they had with Samuel Jackson, who played Nick Fury in a suprise cameo at the end credits of Iron Man, he said he might not be reprising the role.
“There was a huge kind of negotiation that broke down. I don’t know. Maybe I won’t be Nick Fury. Maybe somebody else will be Nick Fury or maybe Nick Fury won’t be in it. There seems to be an economic crisis in the Marvel Comics world so [they're saying to me], ‘We’re not making that deal.’”
First, Terence Howard is replaced with Don Cheadle, and now this. I wonder what’s going on at Marvel, they had a huge hit with Iron Man last year, but now it’s starting to sound like Twilight’s off screen pre-sequel antics.
- Dennis
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/01/nick-fury-no-mo.html#more
My buddy at Samsung said they got dropped from providing the “techie gear” on set like Cisco and Dell did for the show 24. No reason other than they are going a different direction. Problems? Who knows. . .
Yeah, interesting, wonder why Marvel is making all these changes. Also there is the rumor that Emily Blunt will be Black Widow in Iron Man 2. Which suprises me, since I heard from a high executive from Marvel a few months ago, that they had already casted the role.
[...] it wasn’t and no deal was in place between Mr. Jackson and Marvel (at least that is what ThinkHero was telling us last month from info they got off the LA Times Hero Complex site). That was until [...]