Following yesterday’s teaser, Marvel have done it again ahead of the full trailer release, further teasing with six new stills for next summer’s Iron Man 3. While they are fairly run-of-the-mill, featuring mostly Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow, with another featuring Iron Patriot armor, a few of them come from USA Today, where more details are revealed, such as the film taking place just a few months after The Avengers.
Marvel Feige’s Kevin Feige also said Shane Black‘s film will see Tony Stark “basically lose all of his toys and is forced to just use his mind to rebuild and to face his biggest enemy.” As one could guess, Paltrow’s Pepper Potts character “plays a very big part in this film” as their relationship grows. And perhaps unlike Iron Man 2, Feige said that Downey Jr. will be “in almost every scene,” putting our character back front-and-center. Check out the stills above and below for the film that also stars Ben Kingsley, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale and Jon Favreau.
Update: EW also has our first still of Kingsley as the villain The Mandarin. Check it out below, as well as the first teaser poster from Marvel, and more details on their site.
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Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Iron Man 3 arrives on May 3rd, 2013.