Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3 is a 2013 film now in production. It is the seventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the first in "Phase 2", as well as the third film in a proposed Iron Man trilogy and the first film since the crossover film The Avengers. The film will be released May 3, 2013, and will also be available in 3D. Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle all reprise their roles in the film. Joining the cast are Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Rebecca Hall, James Badge Dale and William Sadler. The film is directed by Shane Black.

Plot
Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?

Cast

 * Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin
 * Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine/Iron Patriot
 * Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
 * Guy Pearce as Aldrich Killian
 * Rebecca Hall as Maya Hansen
 * James Badge Dale as Eric Savin
 * Ashley Hamilton as Jack Taggert
 * Wang Xueqi as Dr. Wu
 * Fan Bingbing as Dr. Wu's wife
 * Yang Mi as Dr. Wu's assistant
 * Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
 * William Sadler as President Ellis
 * Paul Bettany as J.A.R.V.I.S.
 * Stephanie Szostak as Ellen Brandt
 * Yvonne Zima as Miss Elkridge
 * Wu Jing as a Ten Rings terrorist
 * Ty Simpkins as Harley
 * Stan Lee as Beauty pageant judge

Production
Director Black says that Iron Man 3 will not be another "two men in iron suits fighting each other" film. Instead, it will be more like a Tom Clancy-thriller, with Iron Man fighting real world villians, it will be a post-Avengers the various films will focus on individual heroes, and that the crossovers were designed primarily as a lead in to that Joss Whedon-directed film.

Before Jon Favreau stepped down from directing Iron Man 3, he said that The Mandarin would be reworked to fit into the Iron Man 3 movie.

The film will be shot in North Carolina, Miami, Florida and China.

Trivia

 * Disney bought the distribution rights from Paramount for $115 million. This deal also included The Avengers.
 * Originally, Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures were looking to shoot this movie in Michigan due to the tax incentives. However, due to North Carolina guaranteeing a $20 million tax credit, the producers decided to shoot there instead.
 * Gemma Arterton, Diane Kruger and Isla Fisher were considered for a role. Jessica Chastain was cast but she dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
 * Although this is the third Iron Man movie, it is actually the fifth time Robert Downey Jr. has played Tony Stark/Iron Man. He did a walk-on cameo as Tony Stark in The Incredible Hulk and is part of the ensemble cast in The Avengers. It is unknown if Robert Downey Jr. will reprise his role in future MCU films as his contract with Marvel is only for a five picture deal, but he has stated he would hate to see someone fill his shoes, and that as long as the films are great then he'll keep playing the character..
 * Jude Law was considered for the role of Aldrich Killian.
 * First film in the series not to be directed by Jon Favreau.
 * One scene was shot inside Epic Games, a video game development company known for the Gears of War franchise.
 * The Iron Patriot in this film is a new set of Iron Man armour that bears Captain America's color scheme. In the comics, it was an identity used by Spider-Man's nemesis, the Green Goblin, a.k.a. Norman Osborn. The Iron Patriot in the film is nothing more than an upgraded and repainted version of the War Machine armour.
 * Shane Black described the film as "a Tom Clancy thriller", with the focus on real-world type villains and not "two men in iron suits fighting each other".
 * Kevin Feige described the film as "a full-on Tony Stark-centric movie... He's stripped of everything, he's backed up against a wall, and he's gotta use his intelligence to get out of it. He can't call Thor, Cap or Nick Fury, and he can't look for the Helicarrier in the sky." Robert Downey Jr. further described the character as influenced by a post-"The Avengers" world: "What are his challenges now? What are some limitations that might be placed on him and what sort of threat would have him, as usual, ignore those limitations?"
 * Andy Lau was in talks to play the role of Chen Lu (Radioactive Man), but dropped out upon the birth of his first child. Daoming Chen and Wu Xiubowere considered for the role, before finally Xueqi Wang was cast.
 * Robert Downey Jr. had previously starred in Shane Black's film "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", and spoke highly of Black replacing Jon Favreau, saying that "bringing in Shane Black to write and direct the film is basically the only thing that Favreau and the audience and Marvel and I could ever actually sign off on."
 * According to producer Kevin Feige, the Mandarin is portrayed with an ambiguous background: "It's less about his specific ethnicity than the analogy of various cultures and their iconography that he perverts for his own end." For instance, the Mandarin sports a "Captain America shield" tattoo, in effect using the symbol to represent his own leadership of an army.
 * This will mark the first time Samuel L. Jackson does not appear in an "Iron Man" related movie as Nick Fury.
 * This film is the third media adaption to use the Iron Man Extremis storyline, the first time was with the 6-part Iron Man: Extremis motion comic that was released in 2010 as a media based version of the 6 comic book issues that the storyline originated from. The second time was when the plot was used (and toned down) for the Season 2 episode "Extremis" of the child-friendly cartoon show "Iron Man: Armored Adventures" which aired in March 2012.
 * Production was delayed on August 15, 2012, when Robert Downey Jr.'s ankle and neck were injured in a stunt.
 * According to the writers, the storyline is influenced by the Iron Man comic miniseries 'Extremis' by Warren Ellis, which involved Tony Stark developing and using the Extremis virus, a nanotech version of Captain America's serum. The origin story in the first Iron Man film was also influenced by parts of 'Extremis'.
 * The destruction of Stark's Malibu mansion was filmed at the EUE/Screen Gems Studios water tank.

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