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11-12-2007, 11:08 PM
About a month ago I posted that Nic Cage was attached to the lead, Thank God for the change...
Rourke is New Wrestler
Star replaces Cage in Aronofsky drama.
by Orlando Parfitt, IGN UK
UK, November 12, 2007 - Sin City star Micky Rourke is set to replace Nicholas Cage in Darren Aronofsky's upcoming project The Wrestler.
According to Variety, Rourke will take Cage's role of Randy "The Ram" Robinson, an over-the-hill wrestler who returns to the ring one last time to face his nemesis, "The Ayatollah."
It's not clear why Cage has left the production, but Rourke is certainly qualified for the role -- he had plenty of practice grappling when he was a professional boxer in the 1980s.
Aronofsky, whose last film The Fountain polarised critics, will begin shooting The Wrestler in January.
Rourke is New Wrestler
Star replaces Cage in Aronofsky drama.
by Orlando Parfitt, IGN UK
UK, November 12, 2007 - Sin City star Micky Rourke is set to replace Nicholas Cage in Darren Aronofsky's upcoming project The Wrestler.
According to Variety, Rourke will take Cage's role of Randy "The Ram" Robinson, an over-the-hill wrestler who returns to the ring one last time to face his nemesis, "The Ayatollah."
It's not clear why Cage has left the production, but Rourke is certainly qualified for the role -- he had plenty of practice grappling when he was a professional boxer in the 1980s.
Aronofsky, whose last film The Fountain polarised critics, will begin shooting The Wrestler in January.