Iron Man Speculative Spoiler: The man who saved Stark in the cave...

[3 Dev Adam]

...could he be The Mandarin? I know, it's a big stray from the source, but it could open new possibilities - IF handled correctly.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

Anything's possible, but i didnt get that vibe.

Seemed like he was hiding out from the enemy soldiers as well.

 

[tecnowraith]

I think it's Ho Yinsen: http://www.marveldatabase.com/Ho_Yinsen

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

I think it's Ho Yinsen: http://www.marveldatabase.com/Ho_Yinsen

Me too.

 

[-Æ-]

I think it's Ho Yinsen: http://www.marveldatabase.com/Ho_Yinsen

or either that someone like Ho Yinsen

 

[The Geek Vault]

The guy sounded american....
Also what was he talking about with the device in starks chest? The thing is a magnet pulling the shrapnell away from this heart? Did I get that right?

 

[Roland]

It may be a ho named Yinsen. If you look real carefully around the -45:77:09 mark it appears that "he" may be in high heels and heavy lipstick.

Just kidding. Bad joke. Yeah, methinks this will be the film version of Doc Yinsen . . . his name may be changed to Mustapha bin Hidin for script logistics, but it'll be the same difference.

 

[Excel]

hes not american, he says "my village"....no villages in america anymore.

 

[Figs]

Since a number of you haven't read the comic or aren't hardcore fans. It's the film version of Yinsen. Although the teaser is hard to see at times, I can clearly tell the guy has a middle eastern look to him. It's just like in the comics that Yinsen was Vietnamese.........cause they were in Veitnam. This time the guy taking over that role is Middle eastern because they are in the middle east.

 

[odiin]

Don't be dense. Everybody knows Tony Stark is going to be Mandarin in this film

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

hes not american, he says "my village"....no villages in america anymore.

What about Greenwich Village?

 

[antsiou]

The guy (ho Yinsen) is Actor Shaun Toub
http://www.superherohype.com/news/ironmannews.php?id=5246

News

Shaun Toub Joins Iron Man
Source: Variety
February 23, 2007


Shaun Toub (Crash) has been added to the cast of Marvel Studios and Paramount's Iron Man, reports Variety. The cast of the Jon Favreau-helmed film includes Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Toub was recently seen in The Nativity Story. He recently completed work on DreamWorks' The Kite Runner and will appear this season on ABC's "Lost."

There was specualtaion of who he could be playing here in this thread: "Mandarin is being played by...??"

that was back in a days