Wouldn’t be surprised. Marvel is using Ironman to gain some momentum of GotG in the comics also. Since they aren’t a well known property, it’s smart business.
Remember how 99% of SRK who claim to Marvel fans had no idea who Nova (technically not a GotG member) and Rocket Raccoon were?
Yeah I’m hoping Iron Man is used in limited capacity in that movie though. Need to give the other characters some shine.
I want a rocket Gatling gunning IM in the face!
I agree. I don’t think he’ll be prominent in the movie - if he’s in it all. He’s more like the big name tie-in they’re using. In wrestling terms, Ironman is giving GotG a rub.
Then again, most of that hinges on Marvel casting an awesome Starlord.
I still want Jason Statham to voice Rocket Raccoon. That’d be soooooo money.
They should let the dude who voiced Starlord and Master Chief still do the voice overs for the film regardless of who plays him.
We should just make this a Marvel movie thread.
But on topic
I’m proud to be an American, at least I know i’m free.
They already retconned Yinsen into being Middle Eastern. The whole A-rab narrative is what fits with the Iron Man movies.
They were Asian in the first place because of the Vietnam War. Now, we’re at war with the middle east.
If you’re that nitpicky then just imagine him as a god damn Mongolian.
They already changed the whole thing. If you want to get into historical semantics with me, the origin of the word Mandarin is from the Sanskrit Mantri which is from India. Ben Kingsley is a half-Indian.
Edit: Jesuit missionaries started calling it Mandarin from its original name Guanhua. The entire etymology of the label “Mandarin” is western and fucked. And you guys get upset about a fictional character in a comic book still played at least by someone from ASIA.
Double-edit: So the backdrop of the film with Stark selling his shit to a fig leaf Al Qaeda organization which is now headed by some Chinese guy? That makes more sense?
The Mandarin was a shitty racist caricature with a fu manchu. Come on!
Yeah, I agree, original incarnation was racist as fuck until recently and in the 90s cartoon the motherfucker was light green.
Honestly you people arguing semantics of the dude being asian
Indian is indian. Kinglsey is a great actor, but they could have casted chow Yun fat for an evil ancient chinese magician warlord
Honestly. Chow Yun Fat can play a good villain. He is huge in china, and he can do his own action scenes.
Just because kingsley is from the asian continent does not make him the same as being chinese
History and root word shit? Dude isn’t chinese, and with a plethora of great chinese actors who could play the role they chose an indian. It’s not as bad as last air bender with no chinese people at all in a kung fu movie.
But the mandarin should be chinese
Heck even pai mei from kill bill would have worked
I am going to watch regardless as im3 looks awesome.
Must see war machine destroy shit
I’ll bet they never once call him “Mandarin” in the film.
Fuck man they better just call him Warlord or something like
Pretty much
Could even call him Ringleader
Or some arabic translation of ringleader.
I mean they made whiplash into a russian genius
An Extended look with Iron Man 3
http://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10151448848516578
GENIOUS!
I like to think that most turned down the idea being called the Mandarin. But frankly, I can see the Hollywood types just going for Kingsley because he was ‘not white’ and old enough to be a sort of ‘old grandmaster’ type that was the character’s original depiction until they aged him down within the last few years to be closer to Tony’s assumed age.
Aizen levels of just as planned in this movie. I am sensing it.
I bet all those people are gonna be holding each other and he saves them that way
Air Force One XPLOSION
Pretty much. They said it’s gonna be the most EPIC human chain ever
That was more of a clip than a trailer.
Posted this in the Avengers Thread earlier this morning. I snapped this screenshot from the “trailer”. I guess this confirms which Mark (model) number of the suit.
