FX Supervisor On Iron Man 3, Thor And Whether We'll See Hulkbuster Armor In The Avengers!
Shane Mahan talks about how he thinks the suit will progress in both The Avengers and Iron Man 3, the work that he's been doing on Thor and addresses the rumors that we'll see the Hulkbuster armor in the 2012 epic...
On How The Iron Man Suit Might Change Between Iron Man 2 And The Avengers:
" I think we need to take one film at a time. The concepts and the story and the things that go on in the minds of the Marvel brass, which are a very clever group of people, they really take their time in developing each story point out."
"So in The Avengers, in my opinion, it could be any one of Tony's suits you could put on. It's basically just trying to get him to be a part of The Avengers that is interesting. Tony Stark is the kind of guy that invents and has secret inventions all of the time. So I think the charm of his character is that he has stuff they don't even know about."
On Whether We'll See The Hulkbuster Armor In The Avengers:
"I have not heard anything about that. That's even a news flash for me. I haven't heard anything like that [laughs]. The fans are well heard by the Marvel camp and they do what they can to appease that. They know that's a vast audience that they're working for."
On How The Suit Might Progress In Iron Man 3:
"I really do not know. Even if I did there's a raygun pointed at my head and it will actually blow me to atoms if I were to say anything. What are the options? You've got things that might go to space. I think a space suit might be kind of interesting. I actually would go through an archive of the story points of the comic and kind of see what I want. The great thing about Marvel is that for the fans, all of the answers are in the comic books. For people who read the comics, they'll pretty much get all of the goodies in there."
On The Differences Between Working On Iron Man 2 And Thor:
"Well, Thor, the characters that we did, I can't really say what they are at this point. But they were more organically based beings so therefore they're using more prosthetic makeup and things like that. It's very different than Iron Man. Iron Man is all hard shell, external machine like things, and the work on Thor is a lot more mysterious and living, living beings."