Comic Book Movies

Iron Man fans and comic nerds rejoice! Ben Kingsley will be The Mandarin in Iron Man 3 after all. When Ben Kingsley was announced as a villain for Iron Man 3, speculation ran wild as to what character he would play. The Mandarin? MODOK? Evil Gandhi? Well, thanks to recently released footage and some set photos posted over at Entertainment Weekly, now we know for sure: it’s definitely the Mandarin. Or possibly Gimli. That is one serious beard, guys.

Let's be honest, it has been way to long since we've heard anything about the Deadpool movie. The last update we got, attached director Tim Miller had shot some test footage for the film. Since then, it's been dead silence, leading many to presume that the test footage led nowhere and the film was canned. Luckily, it looks like there might be some hope after all.

It's no secret that Marvel is spitting out movies at a pace usually reserved for NFL stars fathering children.  In the last five years, they've released two Iron Man movies, one for the Hulk, a Punisher movie, two X-Men movies, a Thor movie, a Captain America movie, a Ghost Rider movie, a Spider-Man movie, and of course the Grown-Ups of all comic book movies The Avengers. That's eleven movies in five years, over half of which came out in the last two years alone.  

Well here's a weird bit of movie history. Slashfilm has uncovered this previously unreleased trailer for the original Sam Raimi Spider-Man film. The most striking thing about it is the fact that it features Peter Parker with mechanical webshooters, unlike the organic webs that the final cut featured. Give it a watch below.