Which is that we had a female character who was the villain in the draft. Why? Rebecca Hall’s character does have an abrupt ending.Īll I’ll say is this, on the record: There was an early draft of Iron Man 3 where we had an inkling of a problem. Rebecca Hall’s character was bigger at one point and we reduced it. Stéphanie Szostak’s character was bigger at one point and we reduced it. So, the toughness was in the logistics instead of the relationships. We’ll bicker now and again, but to me just having him on board elevates the material. You can go through hell together, then six months later go, “That was kind of fun, wasn’t it, John?” The good news is, Downey and I seem to get on pretty well.
Was that a hard shoot? I’ve seen Downey say it was a great experience, but I’ve asked Kevin Feige about “hardest Marvel movies to make” and he said Iron Man 3. In the comic books, it’s literally magic. You’d need to take the piss out of it and explain how this can happen. They just wanted to see the magic rings shoot lasers. We all thought they’d eat it up because it never occurred to us the Mandarin is as iconic to people as, say, the Joker in Batman. You had to know there’d be some blowback. There’s a real Mandarin.” The only reason they made that was an apology to fans who were so angry.īut if Marvel didn’t want you to present Mandarin the way you did, they would have stopped you. In which they said, “No, no, the Mandarin is still alive.
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Marvel saw so many negative things they made a whole other movie just to apologize called Hail to the King. I was under the impression people do like it. Filmmakers are more sensitive than anybody.įor the record, I don’t think you fucked up Iron Man 3. These are raw nerves we’re talking about. That’s what people don’t understand, because they see filmmakers as being guys with money who hang out with movie stars and get girls, or whatever. I never read comments because they will make me feel bad.
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He should die in a pit full of acid.” And you want to respond, but then you’ve bought in, you know? A typical Uproxx comment, “That guy Black, he fucked up Iron Man 3. At first I thought maybe he was saying that kind of thing to everyone, but then he made specific remarks about some comments that were made about him, and I then believed him.
When I met Black at Warner Bros.’ New York offices, the first thing he told me was how he was an Uproxx reader. Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe play two sometimes bumbling, sometimes drunk, sometimes capable private investigators who find themselves in the middle of a 1970s grand conspiracy. As it turns out, Shane Black even has strong opinions about Paul Lynde!īlack’s new film is The Nice Guys, which premiered at Cannes over the weekend and will be in U.S. (Something he makes clear had nothing to do with current Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige and was indicative of the old Marvel regime that has since changed.) Or when the subject of Mel Gibson comes up, about whom Black has strong opinions and even floats as a candidate to direct a possible Iron Man 4. Which, yes, leads to some pretty revealing insights: Like, say, that Black had written the villain in Iron Man 3 as a woman, but was forced to change what became Guy Pearce’s character to a man because of a toy company.
(And have been pretty well documented.) But here’s a guy who, if you ask him a question, he will answer it. He fits the definition of a “raconteur.” He’d be the perfect person to be sitting next to you at the bar, but, for Black, those days are over. Shane Black is one of those people you could talk to for hours, about anything really.