Andrew Lawden spills the beans on insanely anticipated installment

Oct 24, 2012 15:29 GMT  ·  By
Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin in “Iron Man 3,” out in theaters on May 3, 2013
   Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin in “Iron Man 3,” out in theaters on May 3, 2013

Fresh off the release of the first official trailer for Marvel’s “Iron Man 3,” comes a *huge spoiler* straight from a Marvel insider. Read on if you feel like you can’t wait until May 2013.

Andrew Lawden, an actor and a Marvel employee, recently sat down for a radio interview and willingly spilled the beans on both “Iron Man 3” and “Thor: The Dark Work,” Slash Film reports.

The most significant bit is about the film’s villain The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) and how he plans to conquer and / or destroy the world.

“Well, there’s going to be a big fight sequence with The Mandarin, who’s the main villain, which will involve none other than forty different iron man suits. There’s an amazing rescue where The Mandarin basically wants to bring down the American government and kill the President, and he launches an attack on Air Force One,” Lawden said.

“All of them – the President and his men and staff – get sucked out of the plane, and Iron Man rescues them by forming this amazing human chain in the sky,” he added.

Lawden also talked about one bit that is also referenced in the trailer, in which The Mandarin tracks down Tony Stark and blows up his house, in which he’d stored about 40 Iron Man suits.

Apparently, Stark was building this army because he knew he had no other chance to defeat The Mandarin on his own.