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February 24, 2009 - Iron Man 2 / Emily Blunt out?
Scooped on Tuesday, February 24, 2009
It's being reported by The Playlist (who claim that they saw it first on E!'s rec carpet coverage of the Oscars) that Emily Blunt is now out of the running to play the Black Widow. The story goes that one of that site's readers was watching when Jon Favreau appeared with a E! microphone in front of him. The question got asked and Favs allegedly said that Blunt was no longer a possibility for the Widow because 20th Century Fox had exercised their option that she signed when she worked for the studio on The Devil Wears Prada, meaning in short that Fox was calling in their chit and wanted Blunt to star opposite Jack Black on Gulliver's Travels. That film is scheduled to roll this spring/summer and would definitely conflict with the Iron Man 2 shoot. Favreau went on to (allegedly) say that he was "disappointed," and that Mickey Rourke wasn't cast but that he was a "fan".
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