IRON MAN THREE FOOTAGE & BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE
KEVIN FEIGE: Iron Man one was the first in a giant Avengers Assemble phase one leading up to Avengers itself. Iron Man three is the start into that new road in phase two. Building, building, building from that first Iron Man film into the Avengers and Tony’s part in that world and fulfilling what Nick Fury told him at the end of the very first Iron Man. He knows it now. Going into Iron Man three we were faced with our own crossroads. Where do we take this character?
ROBERT: Things get more grounded in everything that we have set up but also more complicated and more challenging for Tony.
STEPHEN BROUSSARD (EXEC PRODUCER): Iron Man 3 Is an opportunity to take Tony’s story even further, to catch up with him after the events of The Avengers.
GWYNETH: He’s really trying to reconcile what’s what and who he wants to be and the direction he wants to go in.
SHANE BLACK: We take Tony Stark. We break him down and sort of put him through the wringer. You see him do some action stuff not as Iron Man, but as Tony. And it’s part of him having to re-assess things and stand back up and reclaim what’s his.
KEVIN: In phase one we wanted to build up to something big and now as we start again, to remind them Tony Stark is an incredibly fascinating character on his own and begin to build phase two from that.
DON: Rhodey is doing stuff clearly for the government, now he has to come together with Tony once again to address this newest threat.
KEVIN: The greatest foe of Tony Stark and of Iron Man is the Mandarin.
BEN: His motivation is to turn the pyramid of civilization as we know on its head. He has his own logic and it’s anarchistic and terrible.
GWYNETH: Where it begins and where it ends is kind of brave and different and really interesting and of course with all the fireworks and action, but there’s really heart underneath it.
ROBERT: This film is the most emotionally satisfying and the most technically and action-wise and superhero-wise entertaining of them all.
DON: It gives the audience a lot to key in. I hope it just gets them geeked to see what’s next because Marvel has a lot of things lined up that I think are going to be really exciting.
KEVIN: As we get now into Phase two we have many more stories.