Kevin Feige And Gwyneth Paltrow Drop Some 'Iron Man 3' Spoilers

What's going on with Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, the Iron Patriot and Extremis in Iron Man 3? Marvel and Disney recently released a new series of interviews to help promote the film and, in them, producer Kevin Feige and star Gwyneth Paltrow were more than happy to talk about specific scenes and motivations in Shane Black's upcoming superhero film.

Some of this is territory that was covered a few weeks back but for anyone clamoring for more info on the first film of Marvel's Phase 2, these quotes provide several more pieces to the puzzle.

Thanks to Superhero Hype for finding these interviews and pulling some quotes. Beware of what I'd call medium-level spoilers.

Kevin Feige talked about the origins of the Iron Patriot and how he plays into the final act:

What we learn in the beginning of 'Iron Man 3' is that they've made an arrangement. Tony has let Rhodey have this suit; he's using it in conjunction with the US Government. So, at the beginning of 'Iron Man 3,' we see that the President has asked Rhodey as War Machine to get a new paint job and take on the new moniker of the Iron Patriot in order to do American business and be the American hero as opposed to The Avengers or Iron Man himself, who is sort of a separate entity... In a way it becomes a buddy action film, in the third act, where they team up. Neither of them have a suit at a certain point in the movie and they really team up in a great, sort of old- fashioned action movie way and Don and Robert have such an amazing rapport.

He also talked a bit more about Guy Pearce's character and what he has to do with AIM:

Killian heads a brain-trust organization called AIM that is developing Extremis, which is something that taps into human DNA and is able to reprogram it and regenerate limbs and enhance strength and cure wounds. But it also could change the whole world, which is what Killian intends to do with it.

Here's Gwyneth Paltrow explaining that Robert Downey Jr. wanted her character to do more in this movie:

There were talks of Pepper getting in the suit at the end of 'Iron Man 2,' but Marvel wasn't ready to do it yet....I know Robert was really interested in having Pepper do more in this movie, and it was also a factor in me coming back and getting to do things that were a little bit more fun and different and a little bit more adventurous. It would've still been nice, but it would've been very much the same thing just to be buttoned-up Pepper, and in this movie there's a whole different experience of her.

And, yes, she does get in the suit:

I didn't mind wearing the suit at all. I thought it was light and perfectly comfortable and my children thought I was extremely cool. They were here on a day where I was in it, so they were trying it on and when my son saw me in the suit, he had the biggest eyes, so it was definitely worth it.

There's more at the link, including Feige talking about the 20 minutes of footage we wrote about earlier this month as well as a long explanation of where the Air Force One scene came from.

Iron Man 3, directed by Shane Black and starring Robert Downey Jr., opens May 3.