4. Kevin Feige’s Hint
In chatting with /Film leading up to the release of The Avengers, Kevin Feige talked about his love of exploring the cosmic side of the Marvel universe, hinting ever so slightly at the possibility of Iron Man in space before Guardians of the Galaxy was even announced:
“I’ve always said that I love and would one day want to explore every aspect of the Marvel universe, with the street level heroes, the fantasy or cosmic with Thor, which really is a cosmic hero, period with Cap, magic some day with Social Supreme and some of those characters. But the Cosmic Universe is a big part of that and I love space movies… That will probably not be in another Iron Man movie, because it doesn’t make much sense. That will not be in another Captain [America] movie. Thor does inhabit a certain part of that world and there are other characters and other properties that we’ve talked a little bit about, but have announced anything yet that will really bare fruit in that arena.”
When Guardians was brought up next, Feige continued:
“That’s where a lot of that will really come to fruition and to me it’s okay and Avengers is the place to mash it all up, because that’s what Avengers is for and you can have Iron Man in outer space. How’s that going to affect him in Iron Man 3 or 4? Well the truth is that’s in there now. (Laughs) He’s seen some shit, but he’s also Tony Stark and can blow a lot of stuff off, so the story of Iron Man 3, as we’ve already talked about, is very insular and very Tony Stark centric as redefined by Shane Black. To me, Thor was a much bigger leap than Avengers. Thor was the one, ‘Are they going to buy this?’ ‘Norse mythology… Intergalactic traveling on beams of light… Are they going to buy it?’ They did and we constructed that whole movie to be about the intro to the worlds, a portal opening in space and aliens coming out seems frankly minor by comparison.”
Iron Man went to space in The Avengers. No big deal now, right?
5. The Scoop
According to Latino-Review and their trusted and proven sources – especially when it comes to Guardians of the Galaxy – Tony Stark will leave Earth’s orbit and ”hook up”with the Guardians and that come time for the Guardians of the Galaxy film, Stark will also make a small appearance.
Guardians of the Galaxy represents the biggest risk for Marvel Studios to date. Introducing a big budget comic book space opera after the failure of Green Lantern and to do so with an entirely unknown-to-average-moviegoer cast of odd characters which includes a talking warrior raccoon would other be crazy, if it weren’t for the “Avengers Assemble” branding power behind it and the inter-connectivity to the other films. The single, ultimate way to mitigate that risk would be to insert the franchise’s biggest and most important star into it in some capacity.
Either way, expect an announcement this summer of Robert Downey Jr.’s contract extension with Marvel.
Do you buy the space-faring Iron Man possibility? It’s drastically different than the Ant-Man connection rumor.
Iron Man 3 releases May 3, 2013, Thor: The Dark World on November 8, 2013, Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 4, 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy on August 1, 2014, The Avengers 2 on May 1, 2015, Ant-Man on November 6, 2015, and Doctor Strange sometime after that.
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Sources: EW, /Film, Funko, Latino-Review, Marvel
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This new rumour of Iron Man cameo in Guardians of Galaxy along with Thanos as Avengers 2 villain only seems to lead Avengers 2 towards an inter-galactic battle climax…which we have already seen in Avengers…not exciting news…
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Yea you totally know what you’re talking about…
avengers had an intergalactic battle but it was kinda stuck in new york. this time around it could actually be up in space and potentially more epic. thats the difference here man.
we really didnt see an “inter-galactic battle climax”. Only a galactic battle ON THE STREETS OF NEW York.
SPACE BATTLE, ANYONE?
This is the first time I am seeing the galaxy defined as between 34th and 59th streets.
Did not know I was Doing intergalactic travel daily for the past 3 years. Awesome.
Pre-Guardians, Pete has a ship named, “Ship” which has an AI. It could be that in the MCU, Tony builds the ship in space. The ship could be some background side project throughout the movie and then after the credits we see some unknown astronaut steal the ship. They don’t have to reveal the astronaut’s face cuz you know, they haven’t cast Pete yet.
At the end of Thor 2 we can see Thanos come to Earth and blow up a car; Drax then is born.
Yeah, Thanos comes to Earth just to blow up a car and then leaves, he is so mischeivess
lol well that’s how Arthur Douglas becomes Drax. At the end credits scene for Thor 2, we can have Thanos’ ship enter Earth’s atmosphere to survey the area. We don’t need to see the ship leave Earth or the people in the car. The ship descends to some remote desert area and with one car driving down a lone road. Thanos blows up the car to leave no witnesses. That’s pretty much what happens in the comic book.
and he abducts his daughter, then it gets personal…. well kinda he was dead, but things are a little complicated
I wonder if they’ll go that deep in the story. I can see Drax believing Thanos killed Moondragon. Then if they make a squeal, they reveal that she is still alive. Or they don’t wait on that and just do that in the upcoming movie.
If they cast a wrestler for Drax, hopefully it’ll be the dumb Drax. However I’d rather see the smart Drax.
My idea? After Tony dropped the missle off into space and seeing outerspace for all its glory and mystery, he becomes anxious and builds the suit and goes off into space and finds the threat of Thanos and the Guardians
Doesn’t Tony Stark become head of SHIELD?
NO, Maria Hill becomes the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the comics of course, but if Sam Jackson is only gonna fulfill his 9 pic deal, He is getting close to that now! unless he signs on for more, but now that they have intro’d MH I assume he is on his last 3 films or so
Tony does become director of SHIELD after the Civil War
If that becomes true they want to kill Captain America like in civil war story line
Good article. I’m totally on board with Iron Man going cosmic. He’s been to space in Avengers, he’s high tech and his armor is almost a space suit anyway right?
this is the most exciting news YET from Phase 2, this is only gonna get better as we start to see who fills out the cast of GOTG.
any news on that yet @Rob Keyes?
This is gonna be EPIC
Just the rumors, but surprisingly no casting reports in the last week or so. We’ll find out a ton on Guardians, Cap 2 and X-Men: DOFP very soon as they all enter production soon.
don’t care for Iron Man 3 at all but if it’s going to include something regarding GotG than I’ll def think about looking into it.
in reality, the most this ‘iron man in space’ mongering will amount to is a 1.5 minute post credits scene.
damn you marvel!
When do you suppose we will see Carol Danvers?
What I gathered from the first Iron Man 3 trailer was that after the events of the Avengers film, Tony feels less significant. He understands that there is a huge world out there he didnt even know about. That there are things that are bigger than him. He questions his existence after looking at the bigger picture. Its put him into a funk where he needs to know what his place in the world is and what else is out there. I think after the events of IM3, maybe in the end credits sequence after some type of tragedy (Happy or Pepper being killed), he decides to journey into outter space and comes across…THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. Great article by the way Rob.
I honestly could not see him leaving pepper behind in the event that Happy is the “big” death! The ONLY way I see him feeling like he has nothing left here is that pepper either dies or he leaves her because he does not want anything to happen to her and feels he needs to “get away” from the situation and goes to space!
I have felt that she (pepper potts) was gonna die ever since Gweneth Paltrow said that she was not sure if pepper would appear in Avengers 2! That to me just spelled out peppers death because there is NO way she would leave tony’s side after everything they have been thru, so the best way to get rid of her chacter and a good story line was to have her killed by a bad guy.
In addition to everything you guys have reported here, I’d also like that Iron Man being the first Avenger to come into contact with a Guardian and Thanos has precedent in the comics. Both Drax the Destroyer and Thanos first appeared in Iron Man #55, where Drax sent Iron Man a mental distress signal requesting he help him escape from Thanos’ imprisonment, which turns out to be a trap set by Thanos as he allowed Drax to contact Tony so he could deal with him directly.
Obviously it won’t play out exactly like that in the MCU, but I think what has potential to happen is that Tony decides to go out into space after the events of IM3 to tackle his fears head on and experience a new frontier which he found himself as equally fascinated as he was scared by in the Avengers. Then, in the after credits scene we see him come into contact with either Thanos’ menions or one of the Guardians. Then we’ll get a follow up scene in GotG’s after credits that sets up A2.
Speaking of that, another interesting nugget that SR didn’t mention in this article is a little bit of info Bleeding Cool dropped the other day. They talked to some of their reliable sources, who stated that Tony might not be as big as factor as people think he will be in A2.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/01/29/iron-man-3-exclusive-tony-starks-space-armour-isnt-just-a-toy/
“Now, we don’t think Stark is going to pop up in Thor 2, and we don’t think he’ll pop up in Captain America 2 either but it’s a given that he’s going to be a core part of the Avengers 2 lineup, right?
Well, we were taking this for granted. Until we were told not to, by somebody we can trust.
Don’t take that for granted.
…they said. Literally.
We tried to clarify if this means he won’t be in the film, but we were told:
That’s the wrong question.”
So, I’m figuring that the real question is not whether Tony will be in A2, but how relevant he will be. It’s possible that something happens to him while in space that results in him being incapacitated or at least preoccupied in A2. Perhaps he gets captured by Thanos while in space?
Stay tuned for more on this. I wouldn’t count on that entirely.
I guess you’ve been asking around?
And then maybe Avengers 3 will be about rescuing Tony Stark and fighting Thanos! And maybe there’ll be epic space battles between huge fleets of massive capital ships and cruisers firing blue lasers and missiles! Where the eff are the space battles in movies nowadays?!!
Nice article Rob – the evidence approach works for me.
HOWEVER….I’m pretty sure Kevin Feige didn’t say ‘Social Supreme’. LOL!
The Eye of Agamotto doesn’t do Facebook!
This seems to all lead up to the Infinity Gauntlet in which all of the Marvel Universe fights Thanos. My favorite comic book of all time of course.
not possible though.
cant include FF, X-Men, ect.
may be plausiable to have Ultron and Thanos in AV3 fighting The Avengers.
maybe.
no spiderman doe.
also,
Joss talked about rotating the roster for A2. so maybe no Black Window, no Hawkeye, enter Falcon and Ant-Man/Wasp(?).
Well, another factor in favor. The villain in Guardians of the Galaxy is Basil Sandhurst, aks, the Controller. The Controller is an Iron Man villain. Now, it’s possible that they completely revamp the Controller (see the Mandarin).