SECRET INVASION: New Still Spotlights Rhodey; Don Cheadle Teases ARMOR WARS

SECRET INVASION: New Still Spotlights Rhodey; Don Cheadle Teases ARMOR WARS

Another new official promo image for Disney+'s Secret Invasion has been released, giving us a new look at Don Cheadle as former Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes...

By MarkCassidy - May 08, 2023 05:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Secret Invasion

Marvel Studios (via EW) has debuted another new still from the upcoming Disney+ Secret Invasion series, and this time the focus is placed on a character who's been a mainstay in the MCU since Phase 1, James "Rhodey" Rhodes.

Don Cheadle will reprise the role, and while he's not expected to play a major part in this show, it sounds like he will be integral to the story.

When we catch up with Rhodey, aka War Machine, he will have graduated from Air Force colonel, and is now the "righthand to the president."

"In this one, he finds himself not directly at odds but somewhat on the other side of where Fury is," Cheadle teases. "Day one, we sat down and were like, 'This should have happened a long time ago, but it's great that it's happening now,'" he adds about getting to work opposite Samuel L. Jackson for the first time. "Sam's a good friend, and I've known him a long time. It was cool to be able to sit across from him and go back and forth."

Rhodey will finally get the spotlight in the Armor Wars movie (which was originally being developed as another Disney+ series), and while he was tight-lipped about when the film might be released, Cheadle did tease what we can expect.

"The fun part about it is that we're going to continue to explore Rhodey and — in some ways for the first time — get to see what makes him tick. We understand his physical challenges, but we haven't really yet dug into a lot of his emotional and psychological [challenges]."

Check out the new image below.

Secret Invasion "follows Nick Fury as he uncovers a conspiracy to install double-agents into positions of power around the world: shapeshifting green-skinned extra-terrestrials known as Skrulls, who can perfectly simulate any human being at will."

The series also stars Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Martin Freeman, Emilia Clarke, and Kingsley Ben-Adir, and is set to premiere on June 21.

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TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 5/8/2023, 5:08 PM
As old and pointless as he is gotten, and though it might just be a typo.....I agree that "Done" Cheadle works much better for this actor.
GeneralChaos
GeneralChaos - 5/8/2023, 6:56 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - Wouldn't expect any less from you.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 5/8/2023, 7:34 PM
@GeneralChaos - You came in late. The title of the article called him Done Cheadle until they corrected it.
Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 5/8/2023, 5:16 PM
Wait...War Machine hasn't interacted with Nick Fury up to this point?!...
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 5/8/2023, 5:17 PM
@Tonic24k - the actors haven't shared a scene together apparently.
Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 5/8/2023, 5:19 PM
@MarkCassidy - Yeah, that's wild. After reading that I had to think about it.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 5/8/2023, 5:20 PM
@Tonic24k - The only time I can think of them together in the same set and possibly interacting even if it was offscreen was in Endgame's funeral for Tony in his little cottage.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 5/8/2023, 5:29 PM
@NinnesMBC - age of ultron when fury introduced rhodey but they weren’t on screen together. This is wild
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 5/8/2023, 5:48 PM
@MyCoolYoung - Hmm Fury didn't appear at least until Tony was alone in the barn and then he left again until he showed up in the Helicarrier with backups, including Rhodey.

True, it's crazy.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 5/8/2023, 5:54 PM
@Tonic24k - Actually the two characters interacted in Age of Ultron when Nick Fury deployed War Machine to assist the Avengers by protecting the Helicarrier from the Ultron sentries.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 5/8/2023, 5:18 PM
The show is a spy thriller but I really hope that they can allow Rhodey some War Machine action even if it's just for one episode.

Off-topic: Daredevil: Born Again was disrupted today a little due to the writers strike but it's still scheduled to continue shooting tomorrow.

https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-strike-daredevil-born-again-production-shut-down-1235359162/

There are some pictures of Michael Gandolfini shooting for the show from last week.

https://twitter.com/DDevilUpdates/status/1655560211258540036

@KingPatel @JoshWilding
Kurban
Kurban - 5/8/2023, 5:20 PM
So… Skrull Rhodey?
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 5/8/2023, 8:17 PM
@Kurban -
MCUKnight11
MCUKnight11 - 5/8/2023, 5:20 PM
I hope Armor Wars takes advantage and uses as much of Iron man's rogues gallery as possible. Especially copycats like Dynamo, Titanium, Firepower, etc
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 5/8/2023, 7:16 PM
@MCUKnight11 - Thing is Crimson Dynamo was already kind of used in Iron Man 2. They combined Crimson Dynamo and Whiplash into one character.

Having said that, they never mentioned the name Crimson Dynamo and his armor looked nothing like it. So yeah, that would be awesome if they had a more accurate Dynamo armor in this
cubichy
cubichy - 5/8/2023, 7:21 PM
@MCUKnight11 - thats not going to happen as tony is dead and no one is making new armors. Cannot have armor wars without tony and iron man.
MCUKnight11
MCUKnight11 - 5/8/2023, 8:17 PM
@CorndogBurglar -
There's like 10 other guys that wore the Dynamo armor. They could use either Valentin Shatalov or Yuri petrovich.
mountainman
mountainman - 5/8/2023, 5:42 PM
Rhodey hasn’t really had anything to do since Iron Man 3. Cheadle is a great actor and Rhodey is a cool character in the comics. If he’s right hand to the President, he’s probably a Skrull.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 5/8/2023, 7:20 PM
@mountainman - Could be Secret Invasion is supposedly leading into Armor Wars. So it would actually be a good story beat if Secret Invasion has Skrull-Rhodey releasing Stark-Tech Armor to other governments that also have Skrulls embedded in them.

Then Armor Wars is the real Rhodey trying to reign in all that Armor that got loose and clear his name as the person that let it all get out.
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 5/8/2023, 8:19 PM
@CorndogBurglar -
mountainman
mountainman - 5/8/2023, 9:23 PM
@CorndogBurglar - I hope that the impact of Secret Invasion lasts longer than just the show.

This sounds like a great idea. I love the concept of multiple nations having Stark Tech then Rhodey has to save the day. Not only has he been such an underused MCU character, but I really want to see War Machine unleashed.

GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/8/2023, 6:34 PM
Long time coming. These two should’ve been shared the screen
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 5/8/2023, 6:55 PM
Sooo...

is Armor Wars still happening?
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 5/8/2023, 7:21 PM
@TheRationalNerd - Yes. It started out as a show, but they upgraded it to a movie. Secret Invasion is supposed to lead into Armor Wars.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 5/8/2023, 7:13 PM
They made literally billions of dollars from us and they’ll probably slap $50 on some cgi for this one. And some random youtuber will release a video a week later making the cgi look 10x better
cubichy
cubichy - 5/8/2023, 7:26 PM
Again, this makes no sense and is shallow and doesnt follow the source material.you cannot have armor wars without tony and his ability to disable his tech, rhodes is not an engineer and knows nothing about tech, so how will they change the source to compensate? By going with phase 4 storytellibg and making shit up, that no one will belive or watch and force the fans to watch the flash and the new DCU.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 5/8/2023, 7:53 PM
@cubichy - they’ll involve Riri Williams who’ll know everything she’ll need to know due to plot convenience duh
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