Mickey Rourke sat down for in interview with Total Film (via ComicBookMovie) for their May edition and spoke about his role of Whiplash in Iron Man 2. Rourke said that he isn’t really a fan of big franchise movies, however he was a fan of what director Jon Favreau did with Iron Man, and liked that Robert Downey Jr. was ‘quirky’ as Tony Stark and wasn’t a stereotypical superhero “like Spider-Man, like Batman and all that shit.” (-10 fanboy points for Rourke there).

Anyhow, Rourke went on to talk about his training regime for the role….and then he kind of lets slip what happens to Whiplash at the end of the film…

Tell us about Whiplash’s costume…

The first time I had it on I had it on for four minutes and I was like, “Take it off!” The whole vest weighed about 40lbs and I could walk 25 steps and be exhausted. So what I did with my trainer was put on a 40lb weight vest and put the treadmill on uphill and we just worked out for two months. Whiplash uses electrodes as whips so I used wrist weights and my stunt co-ordinator Garrett Warren would come over and we would do a boxing workout with whips.

SPOILER TIME

Will Whiplash be popping up in any of the other Marvel films?
Well, the only thing I can tell you is that they had decided to kill me and we did film it with Gwyneth Paltrow. And then they came to New Mexico and re-shot it and now it’s left up in the air…

We’ll have to wait until May to see which version they go for. It would be cool if Whiplash appeared in The Avengers, and I guess they could be leaving the door open for Iron Man 3 too.

Producer Frank Marshall tweeted that the next trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender will be attached to Iron Man 2 which is due for release on May 7th in the US. The trailer will also be making it’s way online around that date too.

Click here to watch the second official trailer that was released a month ago, and here to watch a very cool TV spot that debuted during the Winter Olympics.

The Last Airbender will be released on July 2nd 2010.

As expected a new trailer for Iron Man 2 was revealed by Robert Downey Jr. on Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards yesterday and it also made its way online soon after. In this trailer we see a lot more of Scarlett Johansson and Gwyneth Paltrow, along with more footage of Whiplash attacking Tony Stark at the Monaco Grand Prix. We also get a glimpse of a new portable Iron Man suit.

With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) faces pressure from the government, the press, and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, along with Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), and James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at his side, must forge new alliances — and confront powerful enemies.

Iron Man 2 will be released on April 30th in the UK and May 7th in the US.

It’s about time we got a new one! According to Futon Critic Robert Downey Jr. will be appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards on Sunday, and he’ll be introducing the second trailer for Iron Man 2.

Host Jimmy Kimmel welcomes two-time Academy Award(R)-nominated Robert Downey Jr. and a musical performance by Grammy Award(R) winner Keith Urban to the fifth consecutive “Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards”, SUNDAY, MARCH 7, immediately following the late local news (12:05-1:05 a.m., ET, approx). Downey will introduce the world premiere of the new “Iron Man 2? trailer only moments before Urban performs his new hit single, “Til Summer Comes Around,” from his 2009 album, “Defying Gravity.”

The trailer will no doubt make its way online at some point over the weekend, so keep your eyes peeled!

You can watch the first Iron Man 2 trailer below:

There’s still over 2 years before Thor, Iron Man, Captain America and The Hulk unite for The Avengers, but as Marvel are the masters of planning ahead they already have a draft of the script, and they’ve been sending it around to a few people. One of which includes Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, who tweeted his excitement yesterday.

Definition of “goose bumps.” Pressing enter and watching a screenplay entitled “AVENGERS” come out of my printer.

It’s official, I have the greatest job in the world.

We can assume this is one of the many drafts that will be flying through Marvel printers over the next year and a half. Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand, Elektra) is the man Marvel gave scriptwriting duties to, although I’m sure the guy who ends up directing will want to do a few re-writes himself.

Here’s a reminder of the timeline:

Iron Man 2 – May 2010 (post-production)
Thor – May 2011 (currently filming)
The First Avenger: Captain America – July 2011 (pre-production, expected June shoot)
The Avengers – May 2012 (scripting)

MSN France got their hands on an exclusive behind the scenes look at Iron Man 2. In the video (which is dubbed in French as expected) we see Jon Favreau, Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke and Robert Downey Jr. talking about the Monaco Grand Prix scene where Whiplash unleashes his whips upon Tony Stark and his F1 car. There is also a short clip which shows Tony Stark talking to some officials (again in French) before entering a room which contains Mickey Rourke wearing very little.

Click here to watch the clip!

Marvel has released a shiny new image from Iron Man 2, which shows Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark all geared up to race in the Monaco Grand Prix. From the trailer that was released a few months ago we can assume this is before his car gets slashed into pieces by Mickey Rourke who plays Whiplash.

You can see more images and stills by heading over to Filmonic’s Iron Man 2 gallery.

Remember the S.H.I.E.L.D guy from Iron Man? Well we heard around a year ago that he will be making an appearance in Iron Man 2, and now according to Variety actor Clark Gregg, who plays Agent Phil Coulson, will also be appearing in Thor. This is cool news, even though it was expected. There will be a lot of cross-film appearances by a number of characters, such as Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, as Marvel prepare for The Avengers.

Agent Phil Coulson will no doubt be trying to recruit everyone. In Iron Man he repeatedly attempts to talk to Tony Stark about Stark’s escape from Afghanistan. Later he comes up with a cover story for Stark, one which Stark famously refuses to use resulting in the “I am Iron Man” announcement at the press conference.

Thor started filming last week under the direction of Kenneth Branagh and stars Chris Hemsworth as the hammer-wielding Norse god, as well as Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Stellen Skarsgard and Kat Dennings.

It’s here! The first trailer for Iron Man 2 has appeared online and I never thought a man with electric whips could excite me so much. Whiplash is the definition of badass.

In the trailer we are introduced to Russian prisoner Ivan Vanko who sees the Stark Family as ‘butchers’, so he’s out for revenge. We also see brief clips of Scarlet Johansson as Black Widow and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Watch below!

Do you want to see roughly 15 seconds of the first trailer for Iron Man 2, complete with annoying voice-over? Well if so, you’re in luck! Back in September Entertainment Tonight visited the set of Iron Man 2 and posted a few videos online, and now they’ve got a first look preview of the new trailer. We see Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts kissing Tony Stark’s helmet, then throwing it out of a plane. We don’t see it but I think it’s safe to assume he jumps out after it. There’s also some flashy stage stuff.

The full trailer is expected to play before Sherlock Holmes, which Robert Downey Jr. also stars in.