Wait a second — this is just a throw away line in this article from THR, but “Another part — one for Stark’s assistant Natasha — is still open”. This means that the Black Widow will be in Iron Man 2! We all know Natasha Romanova is a double crosser in the Marvel comics, as recently portrayed in the recent Ultimates saga. Natasha, working for Mickey Rourke, will probably seduce Tony Stark in Iron Man 2 — then turn him over to her Russian handlers… However, at the end of the movie, Natasha will probably come to Robert Downey Jr.’s rescue — which would be a perfect transition to the Avengers movie. Robert has said recently the Avengers need to be based in real life… “The danger you run with colliding all these worlds is (director) Jon (Favreau) was very certain that Iron Man should be set in a very realistic world. Nothing that happened in Iron Man is really outside the realm of possibility. Once you start talking about Valhalla and supersized super soldiers and jolly green giants it warrants much further discussion.” So Natasha sounds like a perfect addition to the Avengers — just like in the Marvel Comics universe.
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. Another part — one for Stark’s assistant Natasha — is still open. – from THR
The Black Widow’s first encounter with Iron Man came when she was directed to slay Anton Vanko, the creator of the Soviet Crimson Dynamo armor, who had defected to America. Natasha attempted to distract Tony Stark while her partner Boris Turgenov used the Crimson Dynamo to destroy Stark’s plants. Turgenov and Vanko wound up perishing in battle, and Natasha remained in America to find some way of regaining the K.G.B.’s favor. Since Tony Stark was still unaware that she was a K.G.B. operative, she continued to romance him so that she could steal a new anti-gravity device he had created. She managed to use the device to commit various acts of sabotage, even lifting entire buildings into the air, but Iron Man nullified the device and she barely escaped capture, now unable to trick Stark into lowering his guard.
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