TRAILER TO THE TRAILER: 'Iron Man 3'

The full trailer hits on Tuesday, but the very brief  first live action look at Iron Man 3 is now online via the film's Facebook Page. It's a true teaser montage (how does a whole 18 seconds suit you?), but we only have two more days until we get to see more. And be sure to check back here on Tuesday.

Iron Man 3 sees the return of Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau, and Paul Bettany, who will be joined by new cast mates Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Rebecca Hall, James Badge Dale, and Ashley Hamilton.

Shane Black (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) takes the reigns a director and screenwriter for an adaptation of the Extremis storyline from the comics. Ben Kingsley is set to play Iron Man's arch-nemesis, The Mandarin. Iron Man 3 will hit the big screen on May 3, 2013.

Official Synopsis:

"Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?"

For a better look at the new armor Tony Stark will be wearing in the film, you can check it out some pictures here. Hasbro unveiled the prototype on the eve of New York Comic Con.

SOURCE: Iron Man 3 Facebook Page

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S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents Revealed For Joss Whedon's ABC TV Show

The identities of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents set to appear in the TV series produced by Joss Whedon have been declassified.

TVLine got their hands on the casting details for the pilot regarding the new faces we will see on ABC in the show set in the same universe as The Avengers.

The pilot will be written and likely directed by Avengers mastermind Whedon, and it remains to be seen which, if any, of the familiar faces from the big screen will appear to bridge the movie and TV version closer together. If that would happen, it would be a priority to keep that top secret, as many things are in the live action Marvel Universe.

According to the TVLine casting scoop, here are the Agents Whedon is looking to assemble:

SKYE: This late-20s woman sounds like a dream: fun, smart, caring and confident – with an ability to get the upper hand by using her wit and charm.

AGENT GRANT WARD: Quite the physical specimen and “cool under fire,” he sometimes botches interpersonal relations. He’s a quiet one with a bit of a temper, but he’s the kind of guy that grows on you.

AGENT ALTHEA RICE: Also known as “The Calvary,” this hard-core soldier has crazy skills when it comes to weapons and being a pilot. But her experiences have left her very quiet and a little damaged.

AGENT LEO FITZ and AGENT JEMMA SIMMONS: These two came through training together and still choose to spend most of their time in each other’s company. Their sibling-like relationship is reinforced by their shared nerd tendencies – she deals with biology and chemistry, he’s a whiz at the technical side of weaponry.

“It’s new characters. It needs to be its own thing. It needs to be adjacent [to the MCU] but you don’t want to do a show where you’re constantly going, ‘Iron Man just left, but he was totally here a minute ago.’ You want them to do their own thing,” Whedon told Collider at the Toronto Film Festival last month.

While perhaps the easiest and most logical cross-over would be for Samuel L. Jackson to make an appearance as S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury. Cobie Smulders could also suit up for a quick cameo as Agent Maria Hill. But whether CBS would play nice and let her appear in an ABC show while she is still on How I Met Your Mother is an issue for the lawyers to figure out. I wouldn't count out Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson either. Who is to say flashbacks would not factor into the pilot, assuming the series is set in the post-Avengers timeline.

But Whedon assures fans that an underdog factor will be a major theme for the show, as all the agents will not possess superpowers like Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

“Well, what does S.H.I.E.L.D. have that the other superheroes don’t? And that, to me, is that they’re not superheroes. But they live in that universe. Even though they’re a big organization, that [lack of powers] makes them underdogs, and that’s interesting to me,” he also revealed in the Collider interview.

SOURCE: TVLine, Collider

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'Avengers' Deleted Scene Features Post Hulk-Out Bruce Banner

Check out this deleted scene from the upcoming home video release of The Avengers. Actually its the clipped tail end of the scene following Bruce Banner's fall as the Hulk from the SHIELD Hellicarrier and meets a security guard played by the late Harry Dean Stanton, who provides the anger issue plagued scientist some clothes, and poses a deep question of identity to him. “Are you a big guy that gets all little, or a little guy that sometimes blows up large?”

While the 56 second clip, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, does not reveal any major plot deletions, it does provide a snippet of the many chatty, but nonetheless poignant, moments director/screenwriter Joss Whedon had to excise from the final cut to keep the film moving along and from running a too generous three and a half hours or so.

This is merely one of the extras we can look forward seeing on the Blu-ray / DVD release of the $1.4 billion grossing film, which hits shelves on September 25th.

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly, Marvel.com

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'Avengers' Preview: Hulk Vs. Thor Behind-The-Scenes

With Marvel's The Avengers on the perch to top the $1billion mark at the international box office in the next day or two, I would assume that there are more fans out there who have seen it than those who haven't. That said, The Daily has posted an amazing behind-the-scenes ILM featurette on the Hulk with sneak peeks at many action scenes he is in from the film.

ILM's Visual Effects Supervisor Jeff White talks about the detailed multi-layered process of bringing the Hulk to the big screen and incorporating Mark Ruffalo on set to perform live in character as much as possible, despite the fact that White approximates the Hulk would weigh in between 1100-1600 pounds in real life.

There are also some cool behind-the-scenes-pictures from the face off that takes place between the Hulk and Thor. The pics show how things can look on set when complicated special effects will be added in later as director Joss Whedon and Chris Hemsworth interact with the Hulk's bald stand-in. The finished scene has all the trapping of what fans would have ever hoped to see on the big screen with the gamma rayed rage of the Hulk battling it out against the mystical powers of the Norse God of Thunder. And let's not leave Thor's hammer, Mjölnir, out of this scuffle either.

SOURCES: The Daily, Comic Book Movie

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