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. Read More...
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