Even though planning for
Iron Man 3 is already in the early stages, director
Jon Favreau doesn't want you to think of
Iron Man 2 as the second act of a trilogy. There will be no cliffhanger endings in this movie!
"I want it to be completely self-contained because a lot is going to happen between now and the next chapter. You've got Thor
, you've got Captain America
and you've got Avengers.
I don't know how all of that is going to impact this little handmade story of ours that we've been doing over the last two films."
"You want to leave some things open, you know, to be like a food cache for them to set things up that can be paid-off later and lean toward where we think things are going. But we can't leave it like Empire
where you're waiting to see it resolved. It's not a cliffhanger. We had to tuck this whole story in. And that be said, we had like eight different story-lines going and opened up the door, especially with both the good guys and the bad guys, for a larger story to be told. That's just responsible film-making. But if you just watch this movie it's self-contained. It's not like Two Towers
."
Iron Man 2 opens May 7th!