As the exciting new trailer for Iron Man 3 debuts this morning (check it out below if you haven’t!), I can also reveal some big new details about the film gleaned from a press event IGN attended a few weeks back. We were shown about 20 minutes of the film, which begins about 25-30 minutes into the running time. Suffice to say, notable spoilers for this portion of the film follow – though we were not shown anything beyond that.
The trailers have shown a huge attack on Tony Stark’s Malibu home that results in its utter destruction. We were shown this sequence in its entirety, along with the scenes immediately before and after it. As it turns out, by this point in the film, The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) has taken credit for an assault that has seriously injured Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau). As a result, Tony (Robert Downey Jr.) goes off the rails in a very Tony way, yelling into some news cameras that The Mandarin should come directly for him, and includes his home address in his rant.
The footage we saw began shortly after this, as Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall) knocks on Tony’s front door, finding Tony and Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow) there. We learn Tony knew Maya years ago, and they have a history. Asks Tony, “Please don’t tell me there’s a 12 year old kid sitting in the car?” Maya deadpans back, “He’s 13.” She’s kidding, but after she and Pepper share some fairly good-natured banter about Tony, they discuss the concern over Tony putting himself in such jeopardy and refusing to go somewhere safer. In the midst of this, we see the ridiculously large stuffed bunny glimpsed in the first Iron Man 3 trailer. It obviously was at the center of some earlier discussion, with Tony proclaiming, “It’s a big bunny! Relax about it!”
As Pepper and Tony argue, Maya glances at a TV and sees news coverage of helicopters ominously approaching Tony’s home - that they are currently standing inside. She yells out to Tony, who looks outside and sees the helicopters coming, just before they open fire. In slow motion, the first missiles hit the home, which is when Tony reaches out his hand, using what looks to be the movie’s version of the Extremis technology from the comics, as he actually summons the Iron Man armor from across the room, sending the various parts flying towards him. Except then Tony moves his hand in a sweep, away from himself, sending the armor towards… Pepper!
And yes, this causes the armor to completely cover Pepper Potts, putting her in inside and in control of Iron Man. Pepper herself looks shocked by all of this, but when a portion of the roof begins to cave in and nearly flattens Tony, Pepper leaps forward, and shields him, with the debris breaking across the armor's back. “I got you,” she says to Tony, who replies, “I got you first.”
Pepper wants to help Tony get out of the rapidly collapsing home, but he insists she get Maya to safety first. Pepper clearly has had no training in the armor and is an amusing mess. Turning on the gauntlet repulsors she accidentally flings herself out of a window at one point. But she manages to get Maya outside and away from the home and Jarvis tells Tony they are safe. Hearing this, Tony puts his hand out again and the armor is pulled off Pepper, back inside the house and onto Tony. Tony tells Jarvis to blow up all of his previous suits of armor, not wanting there to be any chance Mandarin gets them. Jarvis asks if he’s sure and Tony says to do it and one by one each armor blows up, even as more missiles and gunfire batter the house.
At this point, the house completely collapses, falling into the ocean below and Iron Man is dragged underwater, debris trapped around his neck yanking him downward. His armor battered and broken, he’s barely able to get himself free and Tony is barely conscious as he tells Jarvis to get him out of there.
We then cut to somewhere far away. It’s snowing, as Iron Man makes a hard landing into the snow. A disoriented Tony has no idea where he is, as Jarvis tells him they are in Tennessee. The armor has had it and completely shuts down, Jarvis’ voice dying with it, saying, “I think I need to sleep, sir,” as Tony says, “Don’t leave me, buddy.” Tony lays on his back, trapped by the armor's dead weight when he tries to sit up, until he is able to collapse the armor off his body.
In the middle of nowhere, he begins dragging his armor through the snow…
He comes across a home with an adjacent work garage and breaks in, finding a pretty decent group of tools. He sits the Iron Man armor down on the couch, where it sits, looking like a passed out man in a suit of armor.
As Tony begins to make himself at home, a young boy enters the room, shocked when he sees the Iron Man armor and realizes who Tony is. What follows is a very funny scene as Tony and the boy bond, with Tony’s humor undercutting any of the, “Aww, Tony makes friends with a kid!” sentimentality. The boy exclaims how amazing it is that Tony created the Iron Man and War Machine armor and Tony corrects him – the latter armor is now called Iron Patriot. The kid says he thinks that's a cooler name and Tony quickly retorts, “No it’s not.” When Tony asks where the boy’s parents are, he says his mom is working a night shift, and that his dad left year’s ago and never came back. Replies Tony, “Dad’s leave. No need to be a pussy about it.”
Tony tells the boy he needs some things... including a sandwich. When they conversation turns towards bullies who bother the boy at school, Tony goes to the Iron Man armor and removes a small device. He gives it to the boy and says the next time he is bothered at school, to use the device – it will offer a non-lethal reaction that will stop him from ever being bothered again. Tony then pauses and says, “You know what keeps going through my head? Where’s my sandwich?”
With this long portion of the film finished, we were also shown one other small scene, from another section of the film, teasing the Mandarin and his use of media. In the scene, Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) is on the phone, but cuts off the person he’s talking to, saying Mandarin will be there soon and, “He gets… Well, you know…”
We see a car pull up and Mandarin gets out, wearing a green coat with the hood up, flanked by guards. We hear the instructions given to those in the vicinity: “No talking… No eye contact, unless you want to get shot in the face.”
Two beautiful woman flank Mandarin as he sits down in a chair, a TV camera aimed at him. The woman pulls his hood down for him and he motions for the cameraman to begin.
Overall, the footage looked terrific. Downey, as always, wonderfully embodies Tony, and the addition of Shane Black is obvious via an even more sardonic, quick sense of humor and the clever, well constructed action. The big attack on the house is incredibly exciting, especially seeing Pepper wear the armor, which is a thrilling moment. And, notably, the interaction between Tony and the boy stood out as well. It could easily turn cliché and corny and instead is funny and endearing because Tony refuses to act cutesy with the boy and instead, clearly with affection, remains his usual, unfiltered self.
Continue to Page 2 to learn what Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Feige and Shane Black had to tell us about Iron Man 3.
Source : ign[dot]com
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