Kevin Feige Teases 'Red Skull' Return And Debut Of The "Real" 'Mandarin'
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige teases a possible return for the Red Skull at some point in the future (though he doesn't seem sure of where or when it could happen), and also addresses recent reports and speculation that we will one day see the "real" Mandarin on the big screen...
In a recent interview with IGN Movies, Kevin Feige was quizzed about the return of a couple of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most iconic villains. When it came to The Mandarin (who controversially was revealed to be an English actor called Trevor in Iron Man 3), he revealed: "There have been [talks]. That's one of the reasons we wanted to do the fun short that Drew Pearce wrote and directed. That was to clarify, 'Hey, just because we did this thing doesn't mean this other thing doesn't exist.' And as we were making Iron Man 3 -- and I think Drew's spoken about this -- that was always our intention, was that Aldrich Killian was perverting the notion of these things he's heard." As for how introducing the "real" Mandarin could work after the events of that movie, Feige pointed out that they did actually drop a few hints in both the One-Shot mentioned above and Iron Man 3. "There's a little bit of that when he's doing his detective work in his lab after Happy's been injured outside the Chinese Theater. He's talking about, 'Okay, the Mandarin is taken from various iconographies and mythologies from across the world.' The idea was always there was somebody like this. There had been rumors of somebody like this, and Aldrich Killian just built on that, to make his version."
