Iron Man 2 update

Favreau and Rourke on Iron Man 2
Source:Empire May 28, 2009

With the filming of Iron Man 2 reaching the halfway point, director Jon Favreau and star Mickey Rourke talked to Empire about the title character, Jim Rhodes/War Machine and villain Whiplash. Here's a bit from Rourke on the latter:

Meanwhile, Mickey Rourke, who appears as new Iron Man nemesis Whiplash, was back on set last week after a stint with Sly, Li, Lundgren, Statham et al on The Expendables. "I'm having the time of my life!" he enthused about joining the Iron Man franchise. "It's been really brutal, because my Iron Man suit weighs 23lb. It's sort of a half-suit, with half my skin showing, with lots of Russian tattoos, because [Whiplash is just] out of a Russian-zone prison

why does whiplash have a iron man suit ?

more pics...

http://www.superherohype.com/news/ironmannews.php?id=8398

Read for Whiplash it will incorparate some of Crimson Dynamo's character

Originally posted by Kazenji
Read for Whiplash it will incorparate some of Crimson Dynamo's character

he must gonna look pretty good.. I cannot wait for some conceptual art pics

1st pic of Whiplash...

Hmmmm..... thoughts?

Interesting. Looks kinda of cool. I say this having read or known nothing about Whiplash until I wiki'd him just now.

I'm not really disappointed that they combined the Whiplash villain with another one, Would've looked a bit meh just some guy with a whip.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/thornews.php?id=8439

Marvel's Joe Quesada on Iron Man 2 & Thor
Source:Comic Book Resources
June 18, 2009

Comic Book Resources continues their "Cup 'O Joe" series of interviews with Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada with an edition dedicated to Quesada's involvement with the next two movies on Marvel Studios' slate, Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2 and Kenneth Branagh's Thor.

Quesada is grilled by Jonah Weiland and Kiel Phegley specifically about the meetings held by the Marvel Creative Committee to decide on the direction of the movies and how they'll tie into Marvel Comics' publishing schedule.

Below is a taster, and then you can read the full interview with Quesada over on Comic Book Resources:

We had one big creative meeting with the Marvel Creative Committee, which now works on all of our movies and I have the honor to be a part of. We sat with Kenneth and discussed the "Thor" movie and the overarching story of what that's going to be, just to give our input before anything was put down to paper by screenwriters.

And it was one of the highlights of my time here at Marvel because not only did Branagh sit there and give you the story beat for beat, he and [Marvel Studios head] Kevin Feige formed a great team. It was performance art. Kevin would give us the establishment of the shot and the situation: "Here we are. We're in (take your pick of location). And here's Odin and he’s coming up to (pick a character)." And then Kenneth would come in and give you the color commentary. "Odin has an air of majesty to him" and he'd act out the Odin part or the Thor part. So we sat there and literally got a three-hour one-man show from Kenneth Branagh. It was fantastic. People pay a lot of money for that kind of performance by one of the world’s greatest living actors.

Thats how to make comic movies, you dont have the studio call all of the shots(like the fck ups at Fox), have the comic company involved.

Originally posted by SpaceMonkey
Hmmmm..... thoughts?

Have to see him in action. Doesn't look like a threat to Iron Man at first glance...but I'm sure Favreau has some surprises for us.

Originally posted by The Nuul
http://www.superherohype.com/news/thornews.php?id=8439

Marvel's Joe Quesada on Iron Man 2 & Thor
Source:Comic Book Resources
June 18, 2009

Comic Book Resources continues their "Cup 'O Joe" series of interviews with Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada with an edition dedicated to Quesada's involvement with the next two movies on Marvel Studios' slate, Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2 and Kenneth Branagh's Thor.

Quesada is grilled by Jonah Weiland and Kiel Phegley specifically about the meetings held by the Marvel Creative Committee to decide on the direction of the movies and how they'll tie into Marvel Comics' publishing schedule.

Below is a taster, and then you can read the full interview with Quesada over on Comic Book Resources:

We had one big creative meeting with the Marvel Creative Committee, which now works on all of our movies and I have the honor to be a part of. We sat with Kenneth and discussed the "Thor" movie and the overarching story of what that's going to be, just to give our input before anything was put down to paper by screenwriters.

And it was one of the highlights of my time here at Marvel because not only did Branagh sit there and give you the story beat for beat, he and [Marvel Studios head] Kevin Feige formed a great team. It was performance art. Kevin would give us the establishment of the shot and the situation: "Here we are. We're in (take your pick of location). And here's Odin and he’s coming up to (pick a character)." And then Kenneth would come in and give you the color commentary. "Odin has an air of majesty to him" and he'd act out the Odin part or the Thor part. So we sat there and literally got a three-hour one-man show from Kenneth Branagh. It was fantastic. People pay a lot of money for that kind of performance by one of the world’s greatest living actors.

i read that.. good article.. I am wondering who Olivia Munn is playing..

I cannot wait to see this

First teaser poster

Looks unevenly fuzzy (ie fake)

Originally posted by Kazenji
First teaser poster

nice poster, it looks real so hopefully it is

They have it on SuperHeroHype.com too. May be the real thing.

Originally posted by SpaceMonkey
They have it on SuperHeroHype.com too. May be the real thing.

Thats where i got it from.

Tony Stark's Iron Man 2 GP Racer

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56859

Originally posted by Kazenji
Tony Stark's Iron Man 2 GP Racer

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56859

that is very nice

Hopefully they don't get Spider-Man/X-Men (Not that X-Men was ever good) syndrome and include too many characters.

We've already got Whiplash, Black Widow, War Machine and Nick Fury. Although Fury is a cameo I believe.

I'm not necessarily happy that they combined Whiplash and Crimson Dynamo. He's basically Crimson Dynamo's real identity, Ivan Danko, with Whiplash as the alter ego.

It may not be bad, may be brilliant, but again it's another massively unnecessary change. Maybe they wanted Dynamo but didn't wanna do ANOTHER suited villain. In that case, Whiplash's story would have worked alone, it's weird.

-AC