Recently speaking with the L.A. Times'
Hero Complex, 'Tony Stark' actor Robert Downey Jr. discussed his reprisal in the forthcoming
Iron Man 3 movie. Ultimately dishing on the transition from previous director of the franchise, Jon Favreau, to it's new helmer, Shane Black, check out what Downey had to say.
On returning for the third installment...
“My sense of it is that we need to leave it all on the field — whatever that means in the end,” Downey said of the May 2013 film. “You can pick several different points of departure for that.”
On Shane Black's directorship and their Kiss Kiss Bang Bang connection...
“The thing about Shane is that it will be anything but one of those moments,” Downey said, ”unless we come up with something that is so cheeky and character-driven and perfect that it has to be in the movie.”
“He’s more than the sum of his parts and he’s also kind of been a sleeper for a long time,” Downey said. “We’re not talking much about [the script] right now because Shane is off writing and we talked before that and when we are talking again the talking is going to be over pretty quick [because we're on the same page]. It’s kind of like we’re fighting on the same side and at the same time we’re circling each other, so it’s all great. It should be great.”
On the transition from Jon Favreau's directorship...
”Bringing in Shane Black to write and direct ‘Iron Man 3′ to me is basically the only transition from Favreau to a ‘next thing’ that Favreau and the audience and Marvel and I could ever actually sign off on,” Downy said. With a grin he added: “The fun thing is going to be getting Happy in the movie.”
While the site indicates that Downey has wrapped filming
The Avengers, under Shane Black's direction, Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures has
Iron Man 3 slated for theaters May 3, 2013!