A cou­ple of new images from the first day of film­ing in Pasadena show­ing Robert Downey Jr. and Don Chea­dle with inter­est­ing poses and/or facial expressions.

Favreau keeps up his twit­ter power with more updates from Day 2 and 3 of film­ing, includ­ing Mickey Rourke’s first day and some of Garry Shandling’s comments:

Day 2. Slept like a rock. Finally. Not used to these long hours.

Swarm of paparazzi on set.

Garry Shan­dling: “I can’t wait to see the movie to see who I actu­ally play.”

Wrapped day two. Time for some sleep. So great to work with Garry.

Mickey Roarke’s first day.

Rourke does not disappoint.

Stayed late to watch dailies. It’s great to see these char­ac­ters come to life.

One more rumor to throw into the mix, from the same guy that said Garry Shan­dling would be Sen­a­tor Stern, we now hear that Gary Old­man was spot­ted on set. One rumor, which I believe is just spec­u­la­tion, is that Old­man will be play­ing Howard Stark, Tony’s father. It was pre­vi­ously thought that Tim Rob­bins would be play­ing this role.

Update: Gary oldman’s man­ager, Dou­glas Urban­ski, he posted the fol­low­ing at SHH:
“Mr. Old­man did not visit the set of Iron Man and there are cur­rently no plans for him to appear in the film.”

Lots of shots show­ing Downey Jr., Pal­trow and Favreau mov­ing around, walk­ing, trav­el­ing by car — noth­ing too sen­sa­tional and a lit­tle bit too stalker-ish for my lik­ing. How­ever one inter­est­ing plot point to take into account is that Sam Rock­well is spot­ted on set (fea­tured in the video) — Rock­well is play­ing vil­lain Justin Ham­mer, pos­si­bly putting him at the rumored exten­sion of the “I am Iron Man” scene from the first movie — though this is mere spec­u­la­tion. Video comes via JFX­On­line.

MTV recently quizzed Robert Downey Jr. about a poten­tial Pep­per Potts (Gwyneth Pal­trow), Black Widow (Scar­lett Johans­son) and Tony Stark love tri­an­gle in the Iron Man sequel. He responded, “Heck yeah, Wouldn’t you?” — MTV claims this is con­fir­ma­tion of said plot point, whereas it could just be Downey Jr. hav­ing a bit of fun — I’ll opt to clas­sify this lit­tle one as rumor for now.

It didn’t take very long for the first on set pic­tures from Iron Man 2’s first day of shoot­ing to show up online! Spoil­erTV have posted a gallery of images show­ing Gwyneth Pal­trow, Robert Downey Jr. and new­comer Don Chea­dle as Rhodey on set.

Besides the usual nature of can­did on set imagery one inter­est­ing thing to note is the box that Tony Stark is car­ry­ing, a small black lunch box that bears the Iron Man emblem and the phrase ‘X-treme’. What does Tony Stark have in his sandwiches?

Rhodey

Tony Stark

The Box

Full Gallery

WENN recently con­firmed via Robert Downey Jr. that Garry Shan­dling would be appear­ing in Iron Man 2, and there were reports that he was on set at an ‘undis­closed loca­tion’ yes­ter­day. His role? The IESB com­mented on this:

Shan­dling is a reporter or Sen­a­tor or some sort that appears in a con­tin­u­a­tion of the final scene from the first IRON MAN film, you know that famous “I am Iron Man” scene. We start this film from there is what it looks like.

We have since had an image from Pacific Coast News show­ing Garry Shan­dling on set:

And direc­tor Jon Favreau has been twit­ter­ing again, to our delight, updat­ing through­out the first day with a num­ber of sta­tus reports:

Going over script with RDJ one last time before shooting.

On my way to set. Not much sleep, as one could imag­ine. First day at camp. Very excited.

Lunch! Boy it’s great to be back at work. Many famil­iar faces in cast and crew. I am so blessed to do what I love with won­der­ful people.

First day went great. I’ve never worked on a sequel before. It’s like we picked up where we left off.

He also posted a cou­ple of shots to stoke our excite­ment. The first shows “no cam­era on set”, which I guess Favreau is exempt from, being the direc­tor and all. I am enjoy­ing this new trend of tid­bit social movie report­ing from those behind the scenes.