That Samuel L. Jackson will play Nick Fury for a cameo appearance in the upcoming “Iron Man” movie is just about the worst kept secret in comic-dom, somewhere just south of “Jeff Bridges will play Iron Monger” and just a little less obvious than “Iron Man will fly.”
Heck, super producer and Marvel movie mastermind Avi Arad himself let it slip to MTV News nearly seven months ago. As in, LAST July.
“The Sam thing was supposed to be the biggest secret of them all,” he told us then, clearly frustrated. “It’s amazing how it got out.” See? It’s right there! That makes it what we call “old news.” But if you think that also makes it undeniable, well, than you clearly have never met Samuel L. Jackson.
“I asked Avi Arad about that and he said he didn’t do that,” Jackson coyly responded when asked about what Arad told MTV about the Nick Fury cameo. “He told me he didn’t.”
It would all be endlessly frustrating, of course, if we didn’t, you know, have these things on video tape.
“Well [then] I am indeed Nick Fury,” Jackson finally admitted, officially confirming his role for the first time. “But I don’t know if I’m gonna be in [”Iron Man”] though.”
So you haven’t shot any scenes?
“I can’t tell you that!”
You won’t confirm?
“I won’t confirm!”
Head, meet brick wall. Brick wall, meet head.
But give Jackson credit – the man clearly knows how to keep a secret. Too bad he confirmed he’s Nick Fury (sucka!) What do you make of the Marvel cross-promotion? With all the comic movies coming out, would a “Nick Fury” full-length get you going? Sound off below.
February 13th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
That’s great news. I wonder if he’ll be making a cameo appearance for sure in the Incredible Hulk Movie? I’m thinking it’s likely.
- Jess
http://ironmantonystark.com
February 15th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
From what I heard about the whole new “Marvel Movies” production company was the main reason was to do things like this.
Avi had said about a year ago that he would have loved to see Spiderman or the Fantastic Four show up in cameos in X-Men 3 during the Magneto attack. But because of Fox having X-Men and Sony having Spiderman that was impossible.
So you could be seeing Rob Downey show up in cameo’s as Tony Stark in other movies and almost definitely seeing Sam Jackson show up as Fury in a few before getting his own feature.
Its the crossover movies - its how they do comics and I think it would work great in movies too.
James
February 18th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Either Robert Downey or Ed Norton’s already confirmed that Iron Man’s making a brief guest spot in the Hulk movie.
Also, how ’bout Ryan Reynolds being Deadpool?