'Iron Man 3': First Look at Ben Kingsley as new villain The Mandarin -- EXCLUSIVE

Ever notice Ben Kingsley is either trying to destroy the world or trying to save it?
Behold the man who helped do “absolute good” in Schindler’s List and Gandhi as he shifts into absolute bad mode for Iron Man 3 as the international terrorist known as The Mandarin.
Comic book readers are very familiar with Tony Stark’s multi-ringed nemesis, but those who know this corner of the Marvel universe only from the movies can now bow their heads in subjugation before a new acquaintance.
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“Some people call me a terrorist. I consider myself a teacher,” The Mandarin snarled in footage from the movie previewed last July at Comic-Con. “Lesson #1: Heroes – there is no such thing.”
Expect to hear a similar monologue in the Iron Man 3 trailer coming out tomorrow, playing over footage of The Mandarin’s black helicopters launching missiles into the seaside home that is Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man headquarters. As the structure detonates and collapses into the sea, all of his armor and equipment sinks with it. (USA Today’s Brian Truitt has some other cool images from that wreckage over here.)
The thing about our dear teacher The Mandarin is, he knows the world is going to need more than one lesson. And he’s going to make sure we get more than one lesson (to paraphrase a classic line from Citizen Kane.)

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In the comic books, The Mandarin was a Chinese exile who ventures into a remote, forbidden valley and discovers a crashed alien spaceship. Inside the ship are ten rings, each with a different power, which allow him to seek revenge on a world he considers unjust.
But this version of The Mandarin will not follow that same backstory, said Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios. Don’t expect aliens, even though The Avengers and Thor opened up this unified cinematic world to the presence of extra-terrestrials.
Iron Man 3 will be more about a clash of technology, Feige says and those who have been paying close attention to the previous two films know that The Ten Rings is a term for the terrorist group that kidnapped Tony Stark in the first movie, and gave the villain Whiplash some assistance in the sequel.
In that way, The Mandarin (who for a time was going to be the main villain in the first film) has been a part of the Iron Man series from the beginning, albeit as the off-screen manipulator.
“A lot of this movie is about characters going back into the shadows for various reasons and characters who have been in the shadows coming out and into the light for the first time,” Feige says. “It is Tony who, for various reasons, finds himself receding into the darkness. I don’t mean emotional darkness, I mean literally ducking out of the spotlight. And we’ll see other characters stepping up who have pulled strings from the background, starting to show their hand.”

Kingsley is not, of course, Chinese, but Feige says they wanted to blur the background of this version of The Mandarin. “It’s less about his specific ethnicity than the symbolism of various cultures and iconography that he perverts for his own end,” Feige says. From his samurai hair, to his royal robe, to his bin Laden-esque beard, and the AK-47 he keeps at his side, Kingsley’s interpretation is a hodgepodge of various warrior motifs.
In his attempt to rid the world of its oppressors by replacing them, The Mandarin considers himself a twisted version of absolute good.
“Don’t all good villains?” says Feige.

'Iron Man 3' and 'Thor' 2 to be released in 3-D; 'Ant-Man' to follow 'Avengers 2' -- BREAKING

Some big news for Marvel fans: Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World will be released in 3-D, and the studio’s Ant-Man has a new release date of Nov. 6, 2015 — well after the planned May 2015 debut of The Avengers 2.
The changes came with a scheduling announcement released this morning by Walt Disney Studios.
Among the other changes: the animated Phineas and Ferb movie is leaving its July 28 berth next summer for an unspecified release in 2014, and the live-action drama Saving Mr. Banks, starring Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in the behind-the-scenes story of the making of Mary Poppins, has been set for Dec. 20, 2013.
There are some more changes in store, too.

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Marked for Nov. 7, 2014 is an untitled animated film — most likely Big Hero 6, the first collaboration between Marvel and Walt Disney Animation Studios. It’s based on a comic book series in which the Japanese government unites a squad of good-guys that includes a robot dragon, a boy genius, a samurai made of silver, and a man who can harness the power of the sun. Read more about the Big Hero 6 movie here.
Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy maintain their previously announced debut dates of April 4, 2014 and Aug. 1, 2014, respectively. There was no indication they would be released in 3-D, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if that announcement came eventually. The format would be particularly interesting in Ant-Man, giving the size-shifting character some scale and depth amid his towering, everyday environments.
Pixar also had a date in the announcement, a Nov. 25, 2015 release for an untitled film, which is probably what the company is currently calling The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind, directed by Up‘s Pete Docter.

'Iron Man 3' back underway after Robert Downey Jr. injury

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After being on pause for over a month and a half, Marvel’s Iron Man 3 is back shooting — with no apparent interruption to its planned release next May.
Principal photography was halted Aug. 16 when Robert Downey Jr. hurt himself while performing a minor stunt. Downey’s rep says the injury was to his ankle, and after taking off several weeks to recuperate, he’s now back on his feet.
Filming has resumed in south Florida, where a replica of the Malibu, Calif., seafood restaurant Neptune’s Net was recreated for a sequence in the movie, which has been revealed in some snapshots from onlookers. The actual restaurant is a popular seaside hangout for surfers and bikers, which accounts for all the choppers in this photo of Iron Man and the character believed to be Don Cheadle’s Rhodey, a.k.a. War Machine, sporting red, white, and blue armor similar to the comic book character Iron Patriot.
Or … are we looking at a guest appearance by Chris Evans’ Captain America, trying out some old Iron Man armor with a yankee doodle paint job? (Just a random theory.)

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Stark’s cliffside home in the Iron Man movies seems to be in Malibu, so maybe they decided to grab a bite at Neptune’s Net in lieu of shawarma.
The image also captures a clean look at the new Iron Man armor, which is programmed to remotely clamp onto Tony Stark’s body, similar to the storyline in the comic book series Extremis, Warren Ellis and Adi Granov 2005-2006 tale in which Stark is injected with a serum that fuses his body to the control system for his armor.
Although it may seem hard to believe that such a long delay in shooting would not cause a similar postponement in the release date, Marvel reps insist the May 3 debut for Iron Man 3 remains on track. Although the studio wouldn’t comment to explain, it’s fairly easy for special effects work to continue on a movie like this even if on-set filming gets postponed.
The delay due to Downey’s injury could very likely lead to some late nights down the road for director Shane Black and his post-production team as they put the finishing touches on the movie, but apparently won’t cause a big enough disturbance for the studio to consider pushing back from that prime, start-of-summer date on the calendar.

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