Well, this is unexpected. The movie blogosphere is all aflutter with Super Hero Hype’s news that the Iron Patriot appears in Shane Black’s Iron Man 3. From an adaptation standpoint, that’s an odd choice.
In the comics, Norman Osborne is the Iron Patriot.
I’m not intimating that a popular Spider-man villain appears in Iron Man 3, just that I’m interested to see how this plays out. That’s James Badge Dale in the armor by the way. Dale plays Eric Savin, otherwise known as Coldblood in the comics. I’m guessing that they’re keeping Coldblood’s origin (Lieutenant Colonel in the Army) and simply applying it to the Iron Patriot, a role Osborne inhabited when he assumed control of S.H.I.E.L.D. and led the Dark Avengers.
This news comes as Latino Review reports that Ben Kingsley’s (who’s not Asian) character is most definitely The Madarin (who is), Iron Man’s primary villain. So it’ll be Guy Pearce as main villain Aldrich Killian (the inventor of Extremis), Kingsley’s Mandarin pulling strings in the background, and the Iron Patriot most likely serving as Iron Man’s physical heavy.
These are intriguing, exhausting developments.
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It’s only the fact that Shane Black is in control that’s keeping “Jet Jaguar panic” from erupting in an uncontrollable fashion….
Shane Black being in control does give me some anticipation. Just imagine if Favreau was still behind these-probably about time for him to get back into acting full time( two duds in a row, seems like Iron Man was a fluke to me)…
That . . . sounds like too many villains. I don’t care how good Shane’s script is, no comic book movie has been any good with more than 2 villains.
I’d LIKE to see more of a focus on villains. No one thought that you could do a movie with a half a dozen different heroes in it, but look where we are now. With villains taking a bit of a back seat in the Avengers (It was a faceless horde, plus Loki), and this being Iron Man’s 4th film, I think we can shift some of the attention away from the main character for just a little while, especially if it means we get some DIFFERENT bad guys for a chancge, and not just another in a line of guys in armored suits. I’m happy to see THAT suit though, and I’m interested in seeing if Iron Patriot is an actual character, like if they try to make someone into what Osborne was for a time, or if it’s just for looks. There was actually another recent Iron Man story that involved Hammer’s old company developing a big red, white, and blue Iron Man-esque hero called Detroit Steel who wasn’t anyone all that special under the helmet, so maybe they’re taking a little from column A and a little from column B and mixing different storylines. I’m intrigued.
Just to be clear Tim, Sir Kingsley is half indian, I believe…so techincally, he IS asian to an extent. He’s not Chow Yun Fat asian, but he’s closer than the rest of the villain cast roster.
Just to be clear Tim, Sir Kingsley is half indian, I believe…so technically, he IS asian to an extent. He’s not Chow Yun Fat asian, but he’s closer than the rest of the villain cast roster.
I was just gonna post the same thing. He was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji, but in England. I’m sure Mr. Kelly was using it as a euphemism for “Oriental”, which is offensive because it, ermm, means “Easterner”. Obviously we should just call a spade a spade and use the scientific term “Mongoloid”.
This reminds me of the tendency of “enlightened” speakers to use “African American” to refer to people in actual Africa. Or Europe.
My theory is that Iron Patriot will be a good guy for most, if not all of the film. He will turn bad at the end or in the next installment. The suit will likely be a prototype put together by either the military or SHIELD. Whether or not Stark cooperates, I don’t know. The military already has access to a Mk. II suit from war machine. Maybe this is their second attempt at creating one of their own?
That makes him as Asian as the Mandarin, who I think is actually half English.
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