Favreau On Iron Man 3

With the Iron clad sequel raking up the worldwide revenue, Jon Faverau has spoke about his desire to return and continue his Iron Man solo outings. But, any future installments will have to wait for Avengers in 2O12 to wrap first.

So what did Favreau say exactly? “You’ve got to The Mandarin”, says the director, “the problem is, the way he’s depicted in the comic books…you don’t want to see that”. With The Mandarin as the prime candidate to square up to Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark in the next outing, one question is who is he? And what is that Favreau suggests we don’t want to see?

The way he is depicted is as a Chinese descendent, a scientific genius and master of martial arts. Brought up embittered against the world around him. He garners power from ten magical rings. Wait a minute,  here it is, in a super tech charged Iron Man Favreau concedes that this could be the problem, introducing the ‘supernatural’. But with the Avenger’s will bring Thor, and thus Favreau states ‘maybe introducing magic wont seem out of place’.

However, one thing is for sure, magic or no magic. Iron Man 3 will have to wait, a long wait, before movement begins in its production. 

MATT RICHARDSON