Warning Spoilers Follow*** Thor 2: The Dark World has been released on Blu Ray and, with it, the new Marvel One Shot, All Hail The King. The new short film is a spin off of Iron Man 3 featuring the Mandarin...well, not the real Mandarin, but the fake one seen in the latest installment of the franchise. However, the new short does open up the possibility of seeing the real Mandarin in a future Iron Man or Avengers film.
Fans were divided when Iron Man 3 was released, and it was revealed the promised villain The Mandarin was nothing more than a drunken imposter. Die hard comic fans were greatly upset that the Armored Avenger’s arch enemy was reduced to a bad parody of a plot twist seen in Batman: Begins.
Still, there were others that didn’t mind the fresh new take on the character. However, writer Drew Pearce may have found a way to make both sides happy. Pearce recently spoke to Voices of Krypton about the new short:
“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.”
He went on to add:
“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…”
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