Ashley Hamilton In Talks To Play FIREPOWER In IRON MAN 3

Little known actor Ashley Hamilton (seen recently on Dancing With The Stars) is in talks with Marvel Studios to play the villainous Firepower in Iron Man 3, adding yet another super powered baddie to the packed out cast. Read on for details.

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By Josh Wilding - 5/24/2012
Variety reports that Ashley Hamilton is in talks to play the villainous Firepower in Iron Man 3, yet another villain Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark/Iron Man will presumably face off against in the upcoming threequel. The role is described as being a minor one, so whether or not he will actually suit up as the armoured bad guy remains to be seen. In the comic books, Jack Taggart takes part in a government program (Project: Firepower) to control rogue super beings, and was trained on a simulator learning to operate an experimental suit in order to take down Iron Man. The film is reportedly based on the "Extremis" storyline.



Source: Variety
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Duskbyday - 5/24/2012, 4:12 PM
Lot of supervillains in this huh?
ClaireLannister2016 - 5/24/2012, 4:12 PM
Ashley? Thats a girls name *sorry had to be said*

Ehh....I dont know who that character is
LucasMend - 5/24/2012, 4:15 PM
If I'm not wrong, Firepower was in armor wars, very brief, but well, enough of armor enemies god damnit! give us some different iron man style
ClaireLannister2016 - 5/24/2012, 4:15 PM
Oh wow Tony's fighting guys in iron suits again...how original :P
Duskbyday - 5/24/2012, 4:17 PM
Duskbyday - 5/24/2012, 4:20 PM
So Mandarin, Coldblood, Firepower, and the Ten Rings are all in this?
Duskbyday - 5/24/2012, 4:26 PM
My bad, so that's five villains in one movie...
Dynamo - 5/24/2012, 4:34 PM
I remember Firepower from Armour Wars! I always wondered if he'd ever get the movie treatment.
LucasMend - 5/24/2012, 4:35 PM
And Jack is African American in the comics. So well, big change using Ashley there
Hawksblueyes - 5/24/2012, 4:35 PM
And yet we can't get the Sinister Six in a Spidey film.
Dynamo - 5/24/2012, 4:36 PM
Don't worry guys, Coldblood and Firepower are way to low level to be anything more than henchmen/cannon fodder. They're probably just more of a physical threat to match Mandarin's intellectual villainy...
Duskbyday - 5/24/2012, 4:39 PM
I'm actually thinking Colblood and Killian aren't going to be villains in this, just new additions to the cast.

Even so there are a LOT of new characters in this movie.
Christuffer - 5/24/2012, 4:39 PM
This....is....starting to turn out to be a weird movie
Havok2 - 5/24/2012, 4:41 PM
I'm pretty sure Coldblood 7 is actually a good guy...
FightAs0ne - 5/24/2012, 4:42 PM
Looks like the government will be going after tony maybe....
Radsavage1 - 5/24/2012, 4:43 PM
In Ironman the leader of the group the was holding Tony Stark for ransom had a ring and that group was part of the Ten Rings. Maybe each villain will have a ring and a group of there own and they will all work for The Mandarin.
mrHJK - 5/24/2012, 4:44 PM
...what? Armor Wars maybe? Turning Iron Man villains into generic exploding suits... Sounding too much like the Transformers & GI Joe films, just throwing character names at actors that don't match and getting something that has no resemblance of the source.
Scabsallover - 5/24/2012, 4:45 PM
Another villain in a metal suit? *yawn*, I was tired of it halfway through Ironman 2.
localman - 5/24/2012, 4:46 PM
@CatwomanTDKR -- Ashley is not just a girl's name. Ever read or see Gone With the Wind? Ashley Wilkes was a major character and Scarlett O'Hara's first crush.
mrteaspoon - 5/24/2012, 4:47 PM
Good work having a postage stamp sized picture of the actor.
nowtheresaBATman - 5/24/2012, 4:50 PM
where the F is the GHOST! damn it! :)
Ryden - 5/24/2012, 4:50 PM
He's probably a villain used to just open the movie with and introduce Iron Man? He could also be a henchman for the Mandarin along with Coldblood. Those two villains are quite odd choices but they could make for some fun fight scenes.
DEATHbyEXILE - 5/24/2012, 4:55 PM
DukeAcureds - 5/24/2012, 4:56 PM
Not liking the viallian choices. Weren't the Hammer drones kind of like the Firepower squad. And if it's Jack Taggart, then isn't that just like the last two films? Iron Man fights a bigger silver-coloured version of himself?
Duskbyday - 5/24/2012, 5:00 PM
@ Owlman I want Ghost too, and as for Pearce he's playing Aldrich Killian, so we are simply assuming he is one judging by the character he is playing. He could very well be just a supporting character or something, we don't know entirely yet.

GuardianAngel - 5/24/2012, 5:00 PM
I sense Spider-Man 3!
AlexDeLarge87 - 5/24/2012, 5:01 PM
How many characters there is going to be in this film?O_o
Well... As long as the pull it off and gives us a great movie im okey!
DEADP0000L - 5/24/2012, 5:04 PM
? so the avengers had alot of heroes and this one might have more villans? if avengers can do it iron man 3 can do it right?
santoanderson - 5/24/2012, 5:08 PM
So it's sounding like the big villain (Mandarin?) has a bunch of minions he sends Iron Man's way, before the final confrontation? Kind of like a Mario Bros game?
DanteSparda - 5/24/2012, 5:16 PM
What's this the villain power hour?

Also it looks like this movie is going to have lots of villains, 3 at least but probably 5.
Gerrit - 5/24/2012, 5:18 PM
Either this movie is gonna be THE SHIT or it will be shit. With so many villains and such a great cast, if they make some crazy story then it could be mind-blowing.
SageMode - 5/24/2012, 5:18 PM
Ugh, I hope his appearance is EXTREMELY brief. Getting a bit redundant seeing Stark face off against yet another villain in an armored suit.
SudsMerrick - 5/24/2012, 5:19 PM
I can see Stark getting over powered by an onsolaught of armored terrorists getting mortally wounded and having to dose extremis by the end of the first act.
Godzillafart - 5/24/2012, 5:20 PM
A brief scene with a b-class villain is awesome. Kind of one step up from a mere easter egg.
sexfoodcomics - 5/24/2012, 5:22 PM
I doubt all these supervillians are in it. Marvel is just throwing names out into the world to throw us all off to who really is the villain.
CorndogBurglar - 5/24/2012, 5:22 PM
You know, next to nothing is officially known about this movie, and this article even flat out says this character will have a minor rolw, yet people complain about an armored villain like he's going to be the big bad or something.
Fogs - 5/24/2012, 5:25 PM
Damn, how long it will be? 6 hours!??!??
marvel72 - 5/24/2012, 5:30 PM
sounds like they're trying to do a sort of armour wars story.
Batman27 - 5/24/2012, 5:30 PM
Uhh another film from a second class Batman
ironpool007 - 5/24/2012, 5:38 PM
He's probably fighting multiple villains, because Mallen, the domestic terrorist from the comics is just one regular guy. He had no distinct look to him. he just had his powers. The Marvel movies are known for having very comic book like villains. So it will probably be several villains who are a little more familiar to Iron Man fans. I'm guessing that in the MCU, these bad guys will get powers from the extremis Virus, which Ben Kingsley's Mandarin character will be responsible somehow for supplying it.
awesomem131 - 5/24/2012, 6:06 PM
@thewonderer you mean Peter Parker 3 i refuse to call that Spider-Man. Also i think they shouldve gone the "Five Nightmares" story arc instead.
sansClaymore - 5/24/2012, 6:09 PM
i cant see them using the extremis storyline what with all the nano bots and scar tissue comas involved if they are going in the direction of madarin ten rings hammer coldblood firepower crimson dynamo etc...

mandarin sends his ten rings henchmen etc. all while tony gets a new computer integrated body ala extremis playing off of how he created new element in iron man 2?
any hints of hammer industries or war machine in this?
LAXtremest - 5/24/2012, 6:10 PM
I agree with Intruder. These are just back drop guys. The real baddie in this is Mandarin.
patriautism - 5/24/2012, 6:14 PM
I wish people would stop referring to Coldblood as a villain.. COLDBLOOD IS NOT A VILLAIN PEOPLE!! He is a mercenary yes, but a heroic one..
MightyMohawks - 5/24/2012, 6:15 PM
Lucaxmen

There aren't any other styles of Iron Man villains.IRON Man. Even Mandarin has technology
FriendlyNeighborhoodSpidey - 5/24/2012, 6:18 PM
Okay, I think we've had enough guys in armored suits for iron man to fight. Why not just make him fight the guy from extremis? Or the mandarin?
TheOther - 5/24/2012, 6:31 PM
too many villains. please don't be a failure.
TheDarkAvengersRises - 5/24/2012, 6:48 PM
Lol, all this hate for multiple villians. Iron Man 3 will be BADASS! The story line will somehow feature Tony building his outer-space suit after nearly dying in space in the Avengers. I can't wait! Also, War Machine!
cmay13 - 5/24/2012, 6:54 PM
so this is basically spiderman 3 now
mgeoff88 - 5/24/2012, 7:08 PM
So IM3 will have three villains now? I don't want IM3 ending up being another Spider-Man 3.

At least, they said he would a minor villain though.

@cmay I really hope not. This movie has the potential to be the best Iron Man movie yet.
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