Iron Man 2 Official Mandarin Casting Thread

[ANTOINE X]

I know that cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa(I'll be damn if I spell it right) look pretty much like Mandarin but I m gonna go with Hiroyuki_Sanada, he has a better acting skills to me.

 

[fu manchu]

^ i recently watched Rush Hour 3, i think he'll be good.

 

[Beanjuice]

Perfect......

"Iron man...YOUR SOUL IS MINE!!!"

 

[He-Man]

Black Widow, Whiplash/Crinsom Dynamo, Justin Hammer but not one word on Mandarin???? Are we going to get him or just another 10 rings reference?

 

[Chewy]

Mandarin is being saved for Iron Man 3

I wouldn't be surprised if we got a cameo this go-round, though

 

[bossman550]

^ me niether

 

[PumpkinBombxXx]

Sonny Chiba is the Mandarin check him out in Storm Riders he plays Conquer and looks just like him Long hair, robe and all. Although i could see Jet Li playing him i remember when Mandarin was in the script for the first movie and Favreau implied they already cast him and we would all be excited to see who it was

 

[bossman550]

^ Favreau said that

 

[PumpkinBombxXx]

yeah way back before they started filming the first Iron Man the Mandarin was in the script and left messeages and **** on tony's voice mail (guessing the Mandarin was some type of over seas buisness tycoon). Im pretty sure it was just going to be a cameo but Favreau had someone for the part

 

[bossman550]

oooooooo

 

[tryp09]

"Iron man...YOUR SOUL IS MINE!!!"

hahaha. The only way Tony would be able to beat Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa would be via bicycle kick into point blank fireball.

I think the Mandarin not speaking any English at all would be kind of neat. Something different and it's not like we necessarily need dialogue between the Mandarin and Tony. As long as S.H.I.E.L.D is feeding Tony with information the whole time, the plot progresses. Throw in subtitles where needed and the occasional language translating JARVIS computer, and we got ourselves an epic!

 

[MichaelChen]

A pity Clancy Brown is white. He'd be perfect as The Mandarin. He's got that exactly the right voice for Mandarin: intelligent yet barbaric and almost beastial. Alas, he is white, so he's out. Sonny Chiba is my next choice. Almost as good a voice, and Asian to boot.

 

[bossman550]

jackie chan. muhahaha

 

[kedrell]

Sony Chiba is an interesting idea. A bit older than I was imagining the Mandarin to be but it could work. I thought he was great in Kill Bill.

 

[Stripesy Strip]

I know he played the fake Ra's in Batman but Ken Watanabe is a better choice for a variety of reasons. One being most oriental actors are short and he's one of the few tall ones. Also he has the commanding presence to lead an army.

 

[Iron_Stark]

Chow Yun-Fat for Mandarin.

 

[tryp09]

Need an unknown IMO... any familiar faces will take away from the foreignness of the character. We need a villain that we know nothing about and is absolutely terrifying.

 

[bossman550]

^ yeah that true.

 

[kedrell]

Since Mandy won't be showing up until IM3 sometime after 2012(unless he has a cameo to foreshadow his involvement more in IM2) then I think I could reverse my stance on Wanatabe being the Mandarin. I know he could hit it out of the park, but because of Batman Begins I had figured him to be off-limits. But that would be a space of at least 8 years since he played the fake Ra's Al Ghul and since he was just a fake he really didn't get a chance to shine as the main villain. I think the time space between films coupled with Mandarin not being shown in a similar light to the fake Ra's could make it work. So I'm on board with Ken as the Mandarin.

 

[Rich Santoro]

I like Collin Chou... The guy played Seraph in the Matrix. That has to count for something

But maybe something more like Shang Tsung's attire in Mortal Kombat... Make it more contemporary, but still with flair.

BD Wong would be great if they go with a cut-throat business man angle.

Leung is also pretty good no matter the theme for Mandarin.

 

[He-Man]

Still no news?

 

[Mr. Earle]

"Iron man...YOUR SOUL IS MINE!!!"

i was just about to post that!!!

Your soul is mine!!! Hahahahaha!

 

[PumpkinBombxXx]

Perfect......

you cant use Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa because he's the leader of the Hand in Elektra. I know that the films by fox arent connected to the ones being done by marvel and i also know Elektra sucked huge balls but still. Its the Marvel U no matter how you look at it. Outside of Ryan Reynolds (simply because no one else can be Deadpool and he was already in blade) they shouldnt use the same people for differnt parts in marvel movies that would be like fox getting RDJ to play Black Tom Cassidy in the X-Men movies

 

[Steve Holt]

Hiroyuki Sanada for sure, he was great in Sunshine

 

[protocida]

No one remembers Elektra (Even tough I like the movie).