Remember how awesome it was at the end of the credits of Iron Man when Samuel L. Jackson showed up as Nick Fury? Remember the collective nerd orgasm we all had when we saw that? It was like a sign and a little ray of joy to everyone who's ever read The Ultimates that Marvel was actually going to be making an Avengers movie. It would be based on The Ultimates, and the only man we would ever want to see as Nick Fury in that film had actually been cast to play him. Remember all of that?
Well......prepare to start openly weeping.
There's currently a good chance that Samuel L. Jackson WILL NOT be playing Nick Fury in the upcoming Marvel films! The reason? What's the reason for anything to happen in movies? It's money.
Samuel L. Jackson, clearly bristling, said today that negotiations to put him in the role of Nick Fury have broken down because "there seems to be an economic crisis in the Marvel Comics world."
Jackson told me [a reporter for the LA Times] today that despite his cameo as the hard-bitten military man at the end of "Iron Man," it now appears that "somebody else will be Nick Fury or maybe Nick Fury won't be in it" when it comes to "Iron Man 2," "The First Avenger: Captain America" and "The Avengers," the announced slate of Marvel Studios projects through 2011 that might have a natural spot for the character.
Jackson, who is a fanboy favorite after roles in three "Star Wars" films, "The Incredibles" and "Unbreakable," was actually used as the model for the Ultimate Marvel version of Fury, which took the white, grizzled, aging commando with salt-and-pepper hair and re-imagined him as a younger, bald African American. There were cheers in theaters at the end of "Iron Man," when Jackson appeared as Fury, but when I asked the actor about it today he shook his head.
"I saw ['Iron Man' and 'Iron Man 2' director] Jon Favreau at the Scream Awards and we had a conversation. He said, 'I hope things are working out for you because we're writing stuff for you.' Then all of a sudden last week I talked to my agents and manager and things aren't really working that well."
I can't even begin to describe how retarded this is. The character in the comics was even designed to look like him for god's sake. If a character was designed to look like Sam Jackson, who the hell are you going to get to play him that will do a better job than frickin' Sam Jackson? This is lunacy I tell ya.
If the executives at Marvel can manage to get their heads out of their asses for about 2 seconds, they'll realize that casting anyone else for this role would be the dumbest thing in movies since.....well.....just about everything that happened in Spider-man 3.
Oh god, he's never going to be cast is he?
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