In an interview with MTV, Marvel Head Kevin Feige spoke about "Iron Man 3," the Mandarin, and stated that in the film Tony Stark is afraid to take the suit off.
Feige stated that "It's almost like post-traumatic stress: he has retreated after the events of 'The Avengers' into his workshop, where he's building advanced versions of his suits," and "He has [designed] a version of the suit that can latch onto him in individual pieces ... anytime, anywhere. He starts to realize [that] he doesn't want to be out of the suit. He's seen a lot of things in 'Avengers' and has encountered a lot of powerful people, much more powerful than he is."
Feige also told MTV that the movie would be set in the middle of the country. He stated "Much of the movie is Tony in the middle of the country without his tools and a fairly broken suit to help him. But that's his superpower: his power is his brain. It's fun to put Tony Stark in a corner with nothing and see how he can get out of it."
When he was asked about the villain of the film the mandarin, Feige said "We felt there was leeway to explore the Mandarin in a way that hasn't been explored before. We found we couldn't point to any sort of definitive Mandarin story in the comics, so we did an amalgamation. The Mandarin is relentless: he's a non-stop threat."
"Iron Man 3 is direct by Shane Black and tells the story of Tony Stark/Iron Man who is put against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds (Mandarin). When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible.
The film stars Robert Downey Jr., Ben Kingsley, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rebecca Hall and hits theaters May 3, 2013.
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