Box Office analysts are predicting Iron Man will make somewhere between a bajillion and a joshillion (a unit of measurement for things that are awesome) dollars this weekend, and so rather than waiting to see if analysts will be right Iron Man sequel talk is already heating up.
Will there be an Iron Man 2? Well if not, then why is Robert Downey Jr. working out so hard? The guys over at IESB spoke to Downey’s personal trainer who told them Robert will be pumping iron big time right after the movie premieres, in order to get ready for the second one. I’m not exactly sure why he needs to work out, since earlier this week Downey revealed that all those muscles are the result of him taking pills made from ground up elephant penis, or something. Basically he admitted that before every take he pops a bunch of junk down his gullet, which inflates him to look like a joshillion bucks, and then when it wears off he looks like an empty wineskin. More on that fabulous story here.
Meanwhile, slightly more credible than the guy who forces Robert Downey Jr. to eat dehydrated monkey supplements while doing jump rope aerobics in his driveway, is Paramount Pictures CEO Brad Grey. According to CS, Grey told Entertaiment Tonight that if Iron Man does as well as expected, Paramount is planning Iron Man 2 for release as soon as 2010. I guess that explains why Downey’s doing all those jumping jacks.
I guess what we’re getting at here is that Iron Man 2 is almost inevitable, unless the unpredictable happens and everyone in the world simultaneously decides, “eh you know what, I hate it when guys wear cold, red underpants.” Rest assured, that’s not going to happen.
