We’ve also got a host of new screenshots featuring Tony Stark, Whiplash and Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow.
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]]>The article also offers up some very interesting plot details.
As we already know, Sam Rockwell is playing the weapons manufacturer Justin Hammer, “who fancies himself the next Tony Stark”. Rourke plays the new villain Whiplash, aka Russian criminal Vanko — Vanko creates his first suit whilst imprisoned, his final suit fires “devastating, whip-like beams.”
Whiplash and Hammer join forces to take on Iron Man. Meanwhile Natasha Romanoff is hired as Stark’s assistant (to replace Pepper Potts, now CEO of Stark Industries). This ultimately leads to romantic tensions.
Rourke also reveals that his character enjoys talking to a cockatoo whilst drunk.
]]>RT @ironmanarmory: @Jon_Favreau I see Road & Track has pics up of Stark’s GP racer. http://bit.ly/Sa3Qh
Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) sports a power pack on his chest that looks similar to the one that Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) uses.
“The technologies are definitely related,” says director Jon Favreau. “That’s part of the core theme of the film.”
The villain’s alter ego, Ivan Vanko, is a Russian who “has constructed his own version of a suit,” Favreau says. Among the creative innovations: a pair of whips, powered by the suit’s glowing chest piece, that are expected to keep Iron Man cracking.
This first image of the character shows Whiplash making an appearance at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix. Favreau as usual is tight-lipped about plot points and declines to discuss whether the big-screen Whiplash is, as in the Marvel Comics, a weapons designer who works for Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell), a competitor of Tony Stark/Iron Man.
“We like to play into and against the expectations that people might have, so we mixed it up a bit,” Favreau says.
Rourke’s performances in Sin City and The Wrestler helped convince the director that the actor was the best candidate to face Downey in his sequel to last spring’s blockbuster that grossed $318.4 million.
“It was very important that the villain be as compelling as can be. … Once I thought of Mickey in that role, it made me understand how to shape the story.”
(Thanks Leroy!)
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This is supposed to be the famous car racing scene where..stark is drunk as ironman and gets pissed because he bet on a race car that is losing and sabotages the races and blows up all the other cars..causing himm to fear is a hero or a natural villain…good stuff?