![]() ![]() Iron Man director Jon Favreau couldn't figure out how to work the mystical - and slightly racist - character into the film, which worked to the benefit of the more grounded, realistic final product, even if the final battle basically consisted of two guys in robots going at it. But what was required is that Iron Monger had to go down into that arc reactor. And when we took him out and made Obadiah the lead villain, Iron Man became what Iron Man became. And as we were prepping the movie we realized we didn't want to do the Mandarin in that movie. And because of that, Obadiah's death was necessary at the finale of the movie: As you may recall, when he was hired, he was a secondary villain to the Mandarin. Since IRON MAN's greatest strength was its casting (and Favreau's direction of his actors. In an interview with Uproxx, Feige explained the script changes that led to Obadiah rising from a secondary villain under the Mandarin to the main Iron Man villain. First, she claims that Marvel Studios and Mickey Rourke have settled their salary squabble (in Rourke's favor), which means the real Best Actor of 2008 is officially on board as IRON MAN 2's 'Russian villain' ( which may or may not be the Crimson Dynamo ). It's common knowledge that the Mandarin was in an early draft of the first Iron Man before being scrapped and brought back for Iron Man 3. But Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has revealed that Obadiah Stane and Mandarin shared Big Bad duties in early scripts, before the decision was made to strengthen Bridges' role. ![]() Though the third act of the film arguably leaves much to be desired, it's hard to imagine Iron Man without Bridges. Iron Man kicked off Marvel's current period of blockbuster movie domination, and it couldn't have been done without the chemistry between Robert Downey Jr.'s reformed genius superhero Tony Stark and his mentor-turned-foe Obadiah Stane ( Jeff Bridges). ![]()
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