Source: AICN
The studio was not happy with the direction Iron Man 2 took. Iron Man 3 will not be another “two men in iron suits fighting each other” film. Instead, it will be more like a Tom Clancy-thriller, with Iron Man fighting real world villains.
And if that wasn’t a punch in the gut for fans who actually enjoyed Iron Man 2, then came another left hook when he followed with:
Iron Man 3 will be made after The Avengers and will not feature any other heroes from the Marvel Universe. Marvel is only doing crossover characters to lead up to The Avengers, and once that film is released, the plan is to go back to self-containted single-character stories.
Whoa, no more crossovers? I honestly believe that was one of the biggest attractions to exploit with fans of the comics that chomped at the bits and Google’d as fast as possible to find out who would cameo in each film. I’m sorry to hear that we may not see any future cross promotion in the films, but I am happy to see that they have more ideas for Tony Stark other than what we’ve seen with the villains primarily just stealing his technology.
One tidbit that is begged to be answered is who will be this “real world” villain? The obvious choice would be to close out the over arching story of the Ten rings terrorist group that’s been in the background of all the films thus far and finally deliver the Mandarin.
