Mickey Rourke to Play Lead Role in Rogue Warrior

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  • RogueDOC
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    • Apr 2006
    • 426

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    Mickey Rourke to Play Lead Role in Rogue Warrior

    Bethesda Softworks announces Mickey Rourke to play battle-tested Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko, a real-life Navy SEAL and founder of the elite SEAL Team 6, in Rogue Warrior.
    “Mickey Rourke was our first choice to play Marcinko in Rogue Warrior,” said Todd Vaughn, Executive Producer of Rogue Warrior. “He absolutely, one-hundred percent captures Marcinko’s raw and gritty personality.”

    Rourke has appeared in numerous well-known films over the years, including “Rumble Fish”, “Nine ½ Weeks” and “Sin City”. Most recently, Rourke has enjoyed critical acclaim for his role as Randy “The Ram” Robinson in “The Wrestler” for which he won a Golden Globe and a Spirit award in the ‘Best Actor in a Leading Role’ category and earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

    Rogue Warrior was inspired by Marcinko’s New York Times bestseller of the same name and his subsequent novels based loosely on his own past military experiences. Playing as “Demo Dick” Marcinko, you are sent on a clandestine operation to disrupt a suspected North Korean ballistic missile program. Soon into the mission, you uncover a conspiracy and must covertly enter the USSR to destroy a technology that could change the balance of geopolitical power, leaving a trail of destruction in your wake.

    Rogue Warrior is currently under development for the Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and Games for Windows® at Rebellion Studios and is scheduled for release in Q4 2009.


    Keep an eye out here for more info.
  • imported_Whiskey
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    • May 2007
    • 3325

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    Re: Mickey Rourke to Play Lead Role in Rogue Warrior

    Aw, hell no.

    ..

    EDIT: whew! At first, I thought this was an announcement of Rourke being put in the movie, instead of a game. Meh. If they want to use his voice, go ahead.

    But IMO, if the movie ever gets made, it should be Russell Crowe in the lead role. There were some pix of him awhile back with the full beard and long hair, and he was the spitting image of Marcinko. And his acting ability is proven. It's my fav series of books, along with Tom Clancy's, so I'm hoping that they do a bang-up job with the movie, whenever it gets made.

    I hope the game is good though. A lot of the fictional missions in the novels could easily be made into video game missions, and Marcinko's style is very charismatic, forceful, and brutal. It's a natural fit for games.

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    • Rogue Warrior
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      • Jun 2007
      • 228

      #3
      Re: Mickey Rourke to Play Lead Role in Rogue Warrior

      This is AWESOME..... I read about this a year or two ago in MAXIMUM PC and wondered what ever happened to it.

      NOW I can't wait

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      • MrKLM
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        • Apr 2006
        • 3146

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        Re: Mickey Rourke to Play Lead Role in Rogue Warrior

        Originally posted by Rogue Warrior
        This is AWESOME..... I read about this a year or two ago in MAXIMUM PC and wondered what ever happened to it.

        NOW I can't wait
        how does it feel to have a game based on you? :laugh:

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