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Marvel’s Kevin Feige Explains Why He Stands By Iron Man 3’s Controversial Mandarin Twist

Marvel’s Kevin Feige Explains Why He Stands By Iron Man 3’s Controversial Mandarin Twist

This fall, the Marvel Cinematic Universe will finally bring in The Mandarin, with Tony Leung playing the character in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The introduction comes eight years after Ben Kingsley played the person we initially thought was The Mandarin in Iron Man 3, only for us to find out that he was an actor named Trevor Slattery who was hired by Guy Pearce’s Aldrich Killian. That twist was met with mixed reactions, but Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige recently explained why he supports going down this unusual creative route.

According to him, "And going back to Iron Man one: We’ve been talking about that when we do bring this character to the screen, [we] only wanted to do it when we felt we could do it supreme justice and really showcase the complexity of this character, which frankly we couldn’t do in an Iron Man movie because an Iron Man movie is about Iron Man; an Iron Man movie is about Tony Stark. So Shane Black, in his film and his script that he co-wrote, came up with this fun twist that we love to this day, and it turned out to be Trevor Slattery. Just because that version wasn’t real didn’t mean there’s not a leader of the Ten Rings organization, and that is who we meet for the first time in Shang-Chi."


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