Release Date: May 3, 2013
First official photo from the set:
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Update - 12/6/2012 (12th of June, 2012)
Turns out that the Iron Patriot suit seen on set isn't actually the well-known villian/suit from the Dark Avengers. But rather, the War Machine suit with a paintjob. Piloted by James Rhodes, still, apparently.
This would explain the shoulder mounted weapon as seen in the image below.
According to
this report, the caucasian man spotted wearing the suit was actually a stunt double for Don Cheadle, who plays James Rhodes, and was simply wearing the suit to give Don a break considering how heavy and stiff the costume tends to be.
"The scene in which the suit was caught on film had Tony Stark surrounded by some military personnel and is being described as the unveiling of the new suit." according to the same report.
Update - 5/6/2012 (5th of June, 2012)
A.I.M - Advanced Idea Mechanics - spotted on-set!
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Update - 6/6/2012 (6th of June, 2012)
According to
Latino Review, Stark will be driving around a 2014 Bugatti Veryron Hyper Sport in Iron Man 3, which has a price of of two
million dollars.
Here are a few other details about the car:
The new model will also feature an all-new body said to be inspired by the original Bugatti Veyron concept of 1999. This concept was designed by the current head of Bugatti design, Walter de Silva – former SEAT head of design. The new car will have a top speed of 434km/h… in case the first edition wasn’t fast enough with its 408km/h top speed. The engine will be based on the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport’s 8.0-litre quad-turbo W16 motor, showcasing around 895kW of power and 1500Nm of torque.
Here’s a picture of the car prototype, I’m sure it will end up looking a lot better in the movie. But this gives you an idea of the initial design.
Update - 12/6/2012 (12th of June, 2012)
There is also reports of stuff like a car chase scene and a Christmas party hosted at Stark Industries:
An anonymous source of On Location Vacation reports, “I work in the building they are filming at on the SAS campus in Cary. Cameras started rolling early this morning in the lobby of the building and as I left work this afternoon they were filming a scene at the entrance of the building. Even a lot of extras were SAS employees. It didn’t seem like there was any action scenes being filmed. Just a lot of people in very nice business suits.
As we all probably know by now, Epic Games will be the “face” of A.I.M. On the other hand, the SAS campus is portraying Stark Industries. The cast (mostly extras) were seen sporting “Stark Industries” name badges on set and between scene. It’s [basically] a Christmas party scene at Stark Industries. There was suppose to be a car/race scene filmed along the Cary parkway but I heard that It was cancelled/rescheduled because of rain.”
According to Miami Today, the production manager of Miami Beach recently stated, ”[The production crew ] will be here for four to six weeks. We hoped they’d stay longer, but once they surveyed the market, they saw there was not sufficient studio space in South Florida. They will primarily do location work here.”
Update - 12/6/2012 (12th of June, 2012)
Tony's getting a suit redesign!
In this teaser poster revealed at the 2012 Licensing Expo, a different suit design can be seen:
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But in this promotional image for Iron Man 3, we can see a completely different spin on the suit - with more gold in it. The suit design of the banner and the poster appear to match up, so it's most likely how the Mark VIII will look. (Or the Extremis version of his suit.)
Apparently, the storyline of Iron Man 3 will draw heavily from the
Extremis comic storyline, too.
"In the comic, Extremis is a process for an updated super soldier serum that uses nanobots to turn its subject into a weapon. After suffering critical injuries fighting a new villain, Tony Stark injects himself with the Extremis process and becomes “post human”, storing part of the suit within the hollows of his own bones. Tony Stark becomes Iron Man, inside and out."
How much will be drawn from this story, we don't know. And whether or not these reports are true, we
still don't know. Speculation, for now. A lot of it's being kept under wraps.
Iron Man 3 will also be co-produced in China, and again, reports indicate that the Mandarin might be included somewhere in the storyline. And yet again, this is unclear for now whether or not it's actually true. But there have been a few actors that have joined the cast that would
imply someone like the Mandarin will be included.
This is the current cast list as far as we are aware:
Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man
Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia "Pepper" Potts
Don Cheadle as USAF Lt. Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes / War Machine
Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin
(not fully confirmed?)
Guy Pearce as Aldrich Killian One
Andy Lau as "an old friend of Tony's from China"
Rebecca Hall as Dr. Maya Hansen
Ashley Hamilton as Jack Taggert
James Badge Dale as Eric Savin / Iron Patriot
Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
(Please note: some of these might be unconfirmed or are speculation, so if it turns out that these aren't the true roles, don't bite me!)
As I find more information, I'll update this post!
Also, apologies if a thread has already been created. I looked, but I couldn't find one! Sorry ):