Latino Review has been right in its rumors before, so we're happy to hop on the rumor mill and spread this one--especially because it makes such sense.
They're saying that the role of Howard Stark, founder of Stark
Industries and Father of Tony (a.k.a. Iron Man), may have been given to actor/activist Tim Robbins, best known for his putrescent escape through a poop pipe in Stephen King's
Shawshank Redemption.
This brings up the question of why Jon Favreau dumped Gerard Sanders, who previously appeared in the part. CBM believes that it is because father Stark will be involved in an important storyline which will introduce the super soldier
Captain America, and set-up two other Marvel movies, namely
The Avengers and
The First Avenger: Captain America.
Also, some previous rumors of other Avengers have been confirmed by Latino Review's source.
Hawkeye and
Black Widow are mentioned as definitely having parts in
Iron Man II.