Tasked with following the big team-up, it gives us a template that subsequent solo movies didn’t really follow: it’s smaller in scale because it has to be. Keeping things grounded and personal, the film’s main reference to the world-altering events of The Avengers is Tony’s reaction to it, including his PTSD. At a point when the studio was famously frugal with its budgets, there was a notion that Iron Man 3 should conclude Tony’s standalone trilogy satisfactorily in case the star didn’t come back for further Marvel films. In the background of this, Downey’s original six-picture deal with Marvel was set to expire with the upcoming Avengers sequel. Shortly after this, Aint It Cool News reported that Black spoke about the film on a panel at the Omaha Film Festival, declaring that the studio was unhappy with Iron Man 2’s “two men in iron suits fighting each other” and his intention was to make more of a Tom Clancy-style thriller with real-world villains. In March 2011, Marvel announced that Black would direct Iron Man 3 and co-write the script with screenwriter Drew Pearce. Though he reprises his role as Stark Industries’ Happy Hogan in Iron Man 3, Jon Favreau had already moved on from directing MCU movies by this point, with writer-director Joss Whedon taking on The Avengers instead.
Bringing destruction to his own doorstep, Tony is left out in the cold, embarking on a low-tech investigation of this new threat and his Extremis-powered human bombs. He doesn’t sleep at night, he has panic attacks at the thought of the Battle of New York, and he spends his days obsessively building a weird and wonderful array of new armours for all eventualities.īut when danger arrives, it’s in the shape of a terrorist frontman calling himself the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley).
In the aftermath of his near-death experience and shawarma date with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Tony Stark is an anxious wreck.
Read more: Looking back at X2 the first out and proud superhero movie One year after the crowd-pleasing team-up, Iron Man 3 gives us a darkly funny, wilfully subversive trilogy-closer with nothing like the current MCU’s commitment to a status quo. Straightforwardly, it was the first movie released after 2012’s The Avengers but the last standalone Iron Man movie.Īnd in practice, it’s the first Marvel Studios outing to reckon with what came before, and the last one to up-end fan expectations so gleefully. Iron Man 3 has him doing both so, why is it still considered divisive in some quarters?ĭirected and co-written by Black, 2013's seventh instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU) is a film of firsts and lasts. (Marvel Studios)Īs a movie star, Robert Downey Jr was born to play Tony Stark and deliver Shane Black dialogue. 2013's Iron Man 3 came at a pivotal time for the MCU.
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