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20090610 Wednesday June 10, 2009

First Pic Of Whiplash

USA Today has published the first pic of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in Iron Man 2, showing him putting in an appearance at the Monaco Grand Prix. The costume displays a chest unit similar to Iron Man’s which director John Favreau says is deliberate: "That's part of the core theme of the film."

Rourke plays Ivan Vanko, a Russian who "has constructed his own version of a suit," according to Favreau (hang on – wasn't that the plot of the first movie?). But this suit is a little different – it has a pair of whips. Hence Whiplash.

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Posted by Dave Golder [News] ( Wednesday June 10, 2009 )



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Not going with the ponytail and mask of the original comics character then? Or is being called "Whiplash" kinky enough?

Posted by cerebus660 (127.0.0.1) on June 10, 2009 at 11:25 AM BST
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i like this idea, the fact that Stark has invented something that puts the world in danger is something you should always have in the movies, its kind of his 'origin' in as much as he's put enough people in danger and now its time to change that, the idea of escalation is an interesting thing that was bought in batman but never really followed through with.

Posted by richard (127.0.0.1) on June 10, 2009 at 12:59 PM BST #

I hope this is just the bare bones of his costume and not the finished article otherwise it'll be pretty easy for Stark to beat him. Still not sure about Rourke, he looks to old and craggy for my liking and not at all Russian (he looks more Mexican in this pic!) but I'm sure Iron Man 2 will be excellent and I'm counting down the days until this and the other Marvel films get released.

Posted by Pete (127.0.0.1) on June 10, 2009 at 01:58 PM BST #

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