Jessica Chastain is a fairly new face when it comes to starring in films, after a few years on the stage Tree Of Life,The Debt, The Help, Coriolanus, Take Shelter made her a recognisable face in film. Those films mentioned maybe more of the arthouse variety but if the word that’s going around the actress maybe expanding her palette and to join the cast of Iron Man 3.
Recently we heard about Ben Kingsley possibly to play the film’s baddie Mandarin with Guy Pearce to play scientist Aldrich Killian, Deadline are reporting that Chastain is in talks to play ‘sexy scientist ever bit as smart as Tony Stark’. The use of sexy scientist is a little off putting, cliched , as my friend would say ‘she’s fit’ however it’s the brains that are vital to this film and with Warren Ellis Extremis Comic Book that character could possibly be Maya Hansen who does the selling of the technology used in Iron Man’s suit.At this stage nothing has been confirmed if Hansen is the part she may play, possibly a love triangle with Tony Stark as she went to College with Stark too.
Originally Chastain was in line for this part previously however scheduling problems with untitled Bin Laden Kathryn Bigelow project as well as The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby where preventing her taking the role, now things could work as both films have delayed filming leaving a gap in her schedule. Diane Kruger, Gemma Arterton and Isla Fisher where all reported to have been approached by Marvel and they could still be as nothing has been confirmed so one of those named actress still could be lucky.
As I was writing this post more rumours about further possible Iron Man 3 casting with Hong Kong/Chinese actor Andy Lau. With many blockbusters moving out of Hollywood shooting parts sometimes all the film overseas it’s no surprise big names of those countries filming will take place and China is one of those locations. Chinese company DMG is helping the finance of Iron Man 3 so to target more film fans of China it would be sense to have one of the nations big names in the film and Andy Lau is one of the big names. Lau is in final negotiation according to Twitch and it wont be Mandarin but a Chinese scientist who helps Ironman fight against the terrorist, someone who represents China’s involvement in Stark industries. so no need to do a Chow Yun-Fat and edit Lau out like what happened to Fat during Pirate of The Caribbean so not offend.
Shane Black has a lot of questions to answer and if what we’re hearing, Black is not a fan of Mandarin, so who could the baddie be? And if Sir Ben Kingsley is in the film will he actually play a villain? Stay tuned !
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