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"I have a lot of apologies to make... Nothing's been the same since New York. You experience things, and then they're over. I can't sleep, and when I do I have nightmares. Honestly, there's a hundred people who want to kill me. I hope I can protect the one thing I can't live without..."
Tony Stark
Iron Man 3
Credits
Title: Iron Man 3
Genres: Superhero fantasy
Directed by: Shane Black
Written by: Shane Black
Drew Pearce
Produced by: Victoria Alonso
Mitch Bell
Stephen Broussard
Louis D'Esposito
Jon Favreau
Kevin Feige
Alan Fine
Stan Lee
Dan Mintz
Charles Newirth
Lars P. Winther
Bing Wu
Wenge Xiao
Music by: Brian Tyler
Cinematography: John Toll
Edited by: Peter S. Elliot
Jeffrey Ford
Production
Distributed by: Marvel Studios
Paramount Pictures
Released: May 3rd, 2013
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 130 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Budget: $200,000,000 [1]
Gross: $403,823,046 (US)
$1,208,423,046 (Worldwide) [2]
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Iron Man 3 is an American action film that blends elements of science fiction with superhero fantasy. It is based on the Iron Man family of comic book titles published by Marvel Comics. It is the seventh film in the growing Marvel Cinematic Universe and follows the events of 2012's The Avengers. The film was directed by Shane Black with a script written by Black and Drew Pearce. It was produced by Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures and released theatrically in conventional screening and IMAX 3X in the United States and Canada on May 3rd, 2013.

The movie stars Robert Downey, Jr. reprising the role of billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, also known as the superhero Iron Man. Also returning to the franchise is Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Don Cheadle as Colonel James Rhodes (now calling himself Iron Patriot instead of War Machine) and Jon Favreau, who steps away from the director's chair this time around, but still showing up to play loyal security chief Happy Hogan. The featured antagonists for this film are Aldrich Killian, played by Guy Pearce and the Mandarin, played by veteran actor Ben Kingsley. Other cast members in this movie include Rebecca Hall as Maya Hansen, William Sadler as President Ellis, James Badge Dale as Savin, Miguel Ferrer as Vice President Rodriguez and Ty Simpkins as Harley Keener.

The plot of the movie begins some ten years prior to the events of the first Iron Man film, in which an inebriated Tony Stark attends a science conference and ignores the presence of disabled scientist Aldrich Killian who invites him to become part of a revolutionary new think tank program called Advanced Idea Mechanics. In the present, Killian's work with a biological agent called Extremis has cured him of his disability and he has now weaponized it in order to become a major player in the weapons market. Working with an international terrorist known only as the Mandarin, Killian sets his sites on Tony Stark, who is suffering from not only his usual commitment issues, but also from post-traumatic stress brought on by his battle with the Chitauri in The Avengers. After losing nearly everything, Tony Stark is forced to rebuild his faith in himself with the aid of a young fatherless child named Harley Keener.

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  • Iron Man 3 grossed $174,144,585 over it's opening weekend in the United States. It grossed $72,525,615 during it's second weekend ending on May 12th. On the week of May 19th, it grossed $35,770,094 and on the week of May 26th, it grossed $19,324,592. On the weekend of June 16th, 2013 it grossed $2,956,855, which is the same weekend that the Superman reboot Man of Steel was released. [2]

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  • This is Shane Black's second film as a director and his first film in the superhero fantasy genre. He previously directed 2005 noir comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which also starred Robert Downey, Jr. His first work as a screenwriter was on the 1987 action movie Lethal Weapon, directed by Superman director Richard Donner.
  • This movie marks the feature film debut for screenwriter Drew Pearce (no relation to actor Guy Pearce). Prior to this film, he worked on various comedy projects such as Lip Service and No Heroics.
  • As with nearly all Marvel Studios productions, Iron Man 3 includes a cameo appearance by Marvel Comics forefather, Stan Lee. In this film Stan plays a judge at a beauty pageant. In the previous films, Lee played a pastiche of a famous figure such as Hugh Hefner in the first Iron Man and Larry King in Iron Man 2.

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  • The tagline for this film is, "Unleash the power behind the armor".
  • The plot of this film is loosely based on the "Extremis" storyline from issues #1-6 of Iron Man, Volume 4.
  • The movie contains an after-credits bonus scene in which the story of the film is revealed to be told in flashback by Tony Stark to Bruce Banner as if he were a patient speaking to a psychiatrist. Banner even informs Tony, "I'm not that kind of doctor", before admitting that he had fallen asleep near the beginning of Tony's narrative.
  • The comic book version of Aldrich Killian had a very minor role in the original development of Extremis. He made a single appearance in Iron Man, Volume 4 #2 and was killed off on page two.
  • Maya Hanson is based on a canonical Marvel Universe character who first appeared in Iron Man, Volume 4 #1. In the comics, it was May who invented Extremis, not Aldrich Killian.
  • The character of President Ellis is named for author Warren Ellis who wrote the original "Extremis" storyline.
  • The conference that Tony Stark attends in the beginning of the film is the same one referenced by Yinsen in the first Iron Man film in which he reveals that Tony and he had met once before.
  • The character of Ellen Brandt, while based on an actual Marvel Universe character, is actually tied in with the origin of the Man-Thing and has no connection to Iron Man.

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