Sam Rockwell is reportedly in talks to return to the MCU in the ARMOR WARS film

A new report has emerged regarding Marvel Studios’ long-in-development Marvel film Armor wars. This recent update comes from Scooper Daniele Richtmannwho says that Iron Man 2 star Sam Rockwell is in talks to reprise his role in the MCU as Justin Hammer.

He also said that Marvel hopes to hire a director to take on the film project in the first quarter of 2024. The studio hopes to begin shooting the film in 2025, which would put the film on track to be released in 2026/2027 . .

There are no other details to share, but it would be interesting to see Rockwell return as Justin Hammer! I’d be interested to see how the studio might continue its story in a movie it sees Don CheadleWar Machine back in action!

Rockwell has said in the past that he would be open to playing Hammer again and actually returned for the role in an episode of What if…? Season 2, where he played a variant of the villain who invaded Avengers Tower on Christmas Eve and jumped into the Hulkbuster armor to fight Happy “The Freak” Hogan.

When asked if he would like to be part of a project like Thunderbolts, he replied: “Yes, definitely. I would love to. [Thunderbolts] Sounds cool…[Hammer’s] funny, he’s a real Lex Luthor.”

Armor wars it was originally conceived as a series, but was reworked as a film because the studio was committed to “telling the story the right way and in that process realized a feature was a better fit for the project”.

Marvel Producer Nate Moore (Captain America Civil War, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) previously explained why Armor wars is the kind of project that needs to be a movie instead of a series, saying, “When you’re talking about a show that wants to see all the cool suits of armor and Don Cheadle interact with all these suits of armor and, in a way, Tony’s legacy Stark? It’s become cost prohibitive to put on a show.”

During a previous interview, Don Cheadle teased how his character will be explored in the Marvel film, explaining that for the first time we’ll see what makes Rhodey tick. He said: “The fun part is that we’ll continue to explore Rhodey and, in a way for the first time, see what makes him tick. We understand his physical challenges, but we haven’t really understood what makes him tick.” yet he delved a lot into her emotional and psychological sphere [challenges].”

We don’t know much about the Marvel adaptation of Armor wars, or the story it will tell. But we know this Yassir Lester is writing the screenplay and Cheadle will be joined Walton Gogginswho returns to reprise his role as Sonny Burch Ant-Man and the Wasp.