Warning Spoilers for Iron Man 3 Follow. Despite being a massive box office success, Iron Man 3 was a major disappointment to purest comic fans. Mainly because of the fact that the film took drastic liberties with the character the Mandarin. The arch-enemy of the Armored Avenger was revealed to be merely a drunken actor posing as a terrorist. Now the new Marvel one-shot, All Hail The King, is hoping to redeem the character. Could we see the real Mandarin appear in an upcoming Marvel movie?
Iron Man 3 script writer Drew Pearce made a lot of fans mad, when he played twister with classic Iron Man villain, the Mandarin. Now that the damage of the film is done and fanboys revolted, Pearce is offering up a mea culpa of sorts.
In a recent interview with Voices of Krypton, the Iron Man 3 ruiner...sorry writer, opened up about his big plans to fix his big mistake, when spoke about the new one shot, All Hail the King:
“It’s weird. The idea for the short was there before any of the kind of storm in a teacup following our Mandarin reveal. What’s actually interesting as well is that the evidence of the ‘real’ Mandarin is laid out in all of the Iron Man movies, as well as all the stuff we said around the release of the movie. The Ten Rings are part of Iron Man 1, they make an appearance in deleted scenes in Iron Man 2. and we’re very specific about the fact that he’s a real guy that exists in the world.”
As it turns out, Pearce has a really big cop out for the mistakes that were made during Iron Man 3:
“In fact, we talked about it a lot when the movie came out. There was always the sense that this term had been co-opted by Killian’s think tank. Obviously the events in the short made that even more explicit. The weird thing is I don’t have any regrets with what we did with Iron Man and I feel no reason to apologize for it. The short kind of let me join some dots that were already there. But it wasn’t the reason we did it. The reason we did it is that we wanted to play with Trevor Slattery some more…”
Pearce went on to add that he was proud of the film that fanboys hated with a passion:
“I would hate for anyone to think I was apologizing for a twist that I’m deeply proud of. I feel like it would have been dishonest to Iron Man 3 if we’d made Trevor the real Mandarin after all and it was a double bluff. I think where the short leads to is a more exciting place and hopefully not one that betrays the intention of Iron Man 3.”
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