The Hollywood Reporter is….reporting that Mickey Rourke & Sam Rockwell are in talks to join Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle & Gwyneth Paltrow in the sequel to last years hit film. Wow, it seems like 2009 is gonna be the year of the mega casts! With Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds & Stallone’s The Expendables (which Rourke recently joined as well) already duking it out for dopest cast, Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2, which begins shooting in April of this year for a May 2010 release date, is really becoming another darling to look forward too (it’s not like us übernerds here at Dumb Drum weren’t already pleasuring ourselves to thoughts of seeing War Machine on screen). But something tells me that with all this talent on screen, is it going to overwhelm in other areas of the film. But I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Still, if everything hits off on the right pitch, the resulting outcome could be spectacular! [via Film School Rejects]