There are some superhero films you worry about. You greet each casting nugget of news with an anx🌞ious chomp of the nails or an anguished tug on the hair until you've got bloody fingers♉ and a bald patch.

Iron Man is not turning into one of those films. In fact, director Jon Favreau is making some smart choices when it comes to the cast for the new Marvel movie. He's already selected quality chara𓆏cter thesp Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark and now, confirming the r🃏umours that had been fizzing across the Interweb, he's adding Terrence Howard into the mix.

Howard grabbed attention with his role as Djay in Hustle & Flow, a⭕nd has also been the best thing in several movies, incl🔯uding the superb Crash and the appalling Get Rich Or Die Tryin'. But with a proper thesp to play off of in Downey Jr, we're hoping he'll shine even brighter.

He's playing Jim "Rhodey" Rhodes, the ace pilot and high-ranking military man who aides Stark in designing and building thﷺe power suit that will help him fight evil (in the case of the film, the classic Iron Man villain Mandarin). But what's even more interesting is that it looks like Favreau clearly has his eye on the future - as Rhodes' plotline takes a turn for the troublesome when he acquires his own armoured suit and becomes a menace to Iron Man as War Machine.

"The richness of the role and complexity of the character seemeꦇd to mesh perfectly with the type of passion, energy and emotion that Howard brings to all of his projects," Marvel's Kevin Feige enthused to The Hollywood Reporter.

With a February shoot date set, expect Iron Man to smash into our cinemas 𝐆in May 20♊08.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter