Iron Man 2: Mickey Rourke as Whiplash

Today's a busy day for the Pop Wenches, so updates will be a bit light. Darn that pesky offline life! But let's start with a little Iron Man goodness . . .

Director Jon Favreau and Paramount Pictures have released the first on-set peek of Mickey Rourke as the villianous Whiplash in Iron Man 2.


The chest gear's resemblance to the electromagnet Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man uses to protect his heart from shrapnel is no accident. It also looks like we can just see part of the handles for the whips that give Whiplash his supervillian moniker. [E! Online]

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Movie News: Iron Man 2

Filming on Iron Man 2, the sequel to last year's first blockbuster summer action flick, began Wednesday in Los Angeles. Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are reprising their respective roles as billionaire Tony Stark/Iron Man and Pepper Potts. As was announced last October, Don Cheadle is replacing Terrence Howard as Col. James Rhodes. Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson are also part of the sequel's cast, with Mickey Rourke slated to play a villian.

The first Iron Man movie grossed more than $582 million dollars worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. Iron Man 2 is scheduled for a May 7, 2010 release in the US. [Associated Press via Yahoo! News]

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