Mandarin as Iron Man movie villain!!

What does everyone think of Favreau's decision to go with the Mandarin as the villain?

I thought he was saying that Mandarin had no chance of being the villain because he wanted it all to be realistic and magic rings makes no sense?

No it's true, he's the new villain.

i think its a great idea.

We're not in the 80s or 90s...it's time to pop the comics.

Originally posted by redcaped
We're not in the 80s or 90s...it's time to pop the comics.

I agree. This is getting out of hand.

Mandarin is fine with me. Have to make the rings logical, though.
So - who's famous and Chinese, to get casted for this role?

the guy that did shang tsung in mortal combat?

Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai, Batman Begins - is very famous and a good actor, but he's Japanese.
It would be typical Hollywood though, to cast any kind of Asian for the role. Look at all the Non-Japanese actresses in Memoirs Of A Geisha.

I don't think it matters what real ethnicity people are, as long as they look like the ethnicity of the character they're playing. I wouldn't be upset if they cast an Irish person to play a German part if they really looked German, would you? I mean, should they only get Jewish people to play prisoners in Holocaust films? lol

Idk who could play Mandarin...particularly cause I don't know how they can do Mandarin without totally killing off any realism that they want to build up. I'd have preferred a Justin Hammer + Spymaster + Titanium Man or something like that.

i know nothing about the ironman villains, describe this Mandarin villain

Mandarin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28comics%29

Ironman should fight fing fang

It makes perfect sense. They can go for a "Technology vs Magic" thing.

The entire movie could be Tony insisting it's not MAGIC, and trying to fight like it's some sort of technology. Trying to "reverse engineer" his way around it, until finally accepting it might not be science after all.

I didn't realize Mandarian was only half-chinese. His mother was an english noblewoman.

i got a cool idea:

Iron Man stops a bank robbery for example.

Robber#1: "who the hell are yooou?!"

Iron Man steps into frame: "I, AM IRON MAN!"

*cue the iron man song* lol

Mandarin???.... he would suck in a film

Well apparently he's gonna suck in 2008's Iron Man now haha.

Here's the poster from Comicon.

It should've been Crimson Dynamo or Titanium man.

Hell, I'm not complaining.

I'm just glad they're coming out with an Iron Man movie PERIOD.