Iron Man 3 Started Filming Here In Wilmington This Week...

[Darth Biscuit]

Pics are coming out...

Saw this on the local news this morning... who is this guy? Apparently he's a villain?

I'm not up on the comic book stuff...

[cookinwithgas]

I spent last weekend with one of the graphic artist/designers of this movie and he was pretty excited about the work he did for it - he works on different technical set designs and I think some of the suit stuff and props. So if nothing else it should look really cool -

[Ja Rhule]

Looks like Captain America and Iron Man had a baby.

[Inimicus]

Ive got a guy that works for me who has a sideline gig working for indy comic publishers as a colorist and dude is the definition of comic book geek.

Showed it to him and he offered the following insight:

Warmachine never went with that color scheme

Tony never made a suit for Cap - although he did make one for Spiderman.

Ironman never featured the Red, White, and Blue scheme.

His guess is that it is either a new color scheme for Warmachine or that Tony makes Cappy a suit and it is not a villain.

[Scrumtrilescent]

Norman Osborn is alive?

Edit: as Iron Patriot I mean.

[Darth Biscuit]

Pics on yahoo.com this morning...

"Marvel's The Avengers" is still tearing it up at the box office, raking in over $527 million to date, but that doesn't mean Tony Stark gets a break from saving the world. "Iron Man 3" is currently filming in Wilmington, North Carolina. Photographers caught the first look at one of the new villains in the movie, the Iron Patriot, who is sporting armor that could give Stark a run for his money. First introduced in the comic "Dark Avengers #1," the Iron Patriot might have a suit of high-tech armor with a Captain America paint job, but the man inside is not a hero. Click ahead to see who is under the mask.

less That's actor James Badge Dale ("The Departed," TV's "24") as Eric Savin, one of the villains of "Iron Man 3." In the comics, Savin is a soldier who is gravely injured in a land mine explosion and reanimated as a cyborg called Coldblood-7. It looks like the movie merges his character from the books with the Iron Patriot armor (which was worn by Spider-Man's nemesis Norman Osborn, aka the Green Goblin).

You can spot in the photo that Dale only wears the armored suit from the waist up. He wears motion capture sensors on his legs, which will be used to create computer-generated armor later on. Having the actor only wear the top half of the suit is a method that was first developed for Robert Downey Jr. in "Iron Man 2." This allows the actor to really be wearing the armor, but freeing his legs for a full range of motion.

"Iron Man 3" will arrive in theaters on May 3, 2013

Iron-Patriot/Coldblood-7?

[Inimicus]

Apparently we are also getting The Mandarin and Dr Aldrich Killian

http://io9.com/59144...tor-whos-future

There's a new report out claiming to explain just how the movie's three villains fit together. First up, according to these reports, Ben Kingsley is indeed playing the Mandarin, despite Marvel's constant denials and director Shane Black going so far as to call the character kind of racist. However, he apparently isn't the main villain, with him instead being simply the power behind Memento star Guy Pearce, who will play the primary antagonist Aldrich Killian, who unleashes the Extremis nanotechnology army. Backing them up will be the relatively minor Firepower, played by Ashely Hamilton, and the recently spotted James Badge Dale as Iron Patriot. It should be stressed that none of this is even remotely confirmed, but it all seems plausible enough, as long as you buy the whole Mandarin rumor. [/Film]

The recent filming at the Cape Fear Club in Wilmington, North Carolina reportedly involved Robert Downey, Jr., supposedly an unidentified second main cast member, and a bunch of extras in military uniforms and suits like those of Secret Service agents. Further set reports suggest that parts of Wilmington are being redressed as Miami for a portion of filming. And then there's this fairly important tidbit:

While talking to some Wilmington locals, we had one source involved with the production tell us that Mandarin was definitely the villain. He said Mandarin had a set of twins that did most of his dirty work for him. Another source who had visited EUE/Screen Gems Studios told us that the sets they were building included Chinese storefronts.

The "twins" referred to might well be James Badge Dale's Iron Patriot and Ashley Hamilton's Firepower, if only in the interest of economy of characters. I'd say those two could theoretically pass for fraternal twins, but obviously this is purely speculations, and indeed all these reports should be taken with a grain of salt until we hear something more official. [Comic Book]

[SOJA]

no way the guy wearing the american flag is a bad guy......right?