The latest installment of the Iron Man franchise pits billionaire playboy Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) against a terrorist mastermind who calls himself the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley). Though the Mandarin in the original Iron Man comics wielded 10 rings endowed with alien superpowers, director Shane Black was intent on making his movie villain more grounded. ''This guy doesn't fly, he's not from space, and his rings aren't magic. The idea I kept in mind was Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now,'' says Black. ''I could have done space aliens, but I didn't particularly want to — and to Marvel's credit, they didn't say, 'The Avengers made a boatload of money — let's just revive that template.' They said, 'Let's do something different.''' —Josh Rottenberg
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