'Doc Savage' - Shane Black to Direct

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by csdot

Stark was mostly the same as far as the humor and attitude aside from him suffering after effects of the battle in New York which was part off the plot. I had no problem with Guy Pearce being the real Mandarin and it made it that much more poignant that he was originally behind the events of the first film. His revenge was long in the making.

Neither one had power rings, though, which still made it seem like they were last-minute cramming the "But he HAS to be in one of the films!" fan-favorite villain into somebody else's comic-based story, like Venom popping up in the last half hour of Spiderman 3 while he still had time to appear in it.
IM3 was basically "We're doing the big, hit current Extremis graphic-novel story!....Uh, oh, yeah, but the Mandarin's in it too, sorta."

(And I can appreciate that a Doc Savage thread would turn into an Iron Man 3 thread if we've heard more of the director than the character; it's just my fault that I got to watch the 70's movie on Warner Instant Archive.)