A Solid Actor for a Solid Movie

How cool is this? My pick for Most Deserving of Getting to the A-List last year, Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow), has joined the cast of the upcoming Iron Man, which will star Robert Downey Jr. in the title role.

Howard will play Jim "Rhodey" Rhodes, the best friend of Tony Stark, the billionaire industrialist who becomes the superhero known as Iron Man.

The actor – the new Denzel Washington according to…well, me – was also featured in Crash and appeared in Four Brothers. He recently completed production on next year’s The Brave One with Jodie Foster.

Photo: Paramount Classics (Hustle & Flow).