Iron Man 3 set photos reveal Iron Patriot armor!

Marvel's Iron Patriot

The first set photos are beginning to come out of North Carolina where Iron Man 3 is being shot and the photos have already revealed a new character to the movie franchise. The Superficial has posted photos of a new suit of armor that is clearly going to belong to the Iron Patriot. This suit of armor was introduced in Marvel's Dark Avengers in 2009 and was created by Norman Osborne after he takes over the organization H.A.M.M.E.R.. However, since SONY owns the rights to all Spider-Man characters at the moment it is unlikely that Osborne will be making an appearance in Iron Man 3.

Patriot Armor description:

"Norman Osborn wears a full battlesuit patterned after the heroic images of Captain America and Iron Man. The battlesuit was cobbled together from StarkTech that had been confiscated from Tony Stark's armory at Avengers Tower shortly after H.A.M.M.E.R.'s formation. However, Osborn lacked the technical expertise on how to operate the armor's repulsor generators efficiently (replacing it with the not as powerful Uni-Beam projector star-shaped output), making it less powerful than Stark's Iron Man armors. It was hacked into and shut down for good by Iron Man at the end of the Seige of Asgard due to the armor based off an older design and has been not in use since.
During the Red Skull's invasion of America the armor was vaporized by Skadi."

The set photos show actor James Badge Dale in the armor. Dale is reportedly playing a character by the name Eric Savin, who's a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. In the comics Eric Savin steps on a land mine and soon becomes a cyborg named Coldblood. How this will all play out in the movie is still unknown.

So what do you think of Iron Patriot entering the movie franchise? What do you think of his armor? (Keep in mind that the armor could look a bit different after post production and digital touch ups)

Source: The Superficial
Source: Marvel Wiki