Iron Man 3 already has several characters who are being used as villains at some point in the movie: Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin, Guy Pearce as Dr. Aldrich Killian, Ashley Hamilton as Firepower, and James Badge Dale as Coldblood. Disney and DMG Entertainment have decided to Spider-Man 3 it up with yet another villain. Wang Xuqei (Bodyguards and Assassins) has been cast as Chen Lu, AKA Radioactive Man, not to be confused with the other Radioactive Man from The Simpsons.
Wang will be taking the tole of Chen Lu, a Chinese nuclear scientist perhaps best known in Marvel’s comic continuity as a member of the Masters of Evil and the Thunderbolts. It’s unclear whether or not the movie Lu will become the irradiated mutant super villain of the comics in Iron Man 3, especially considering that he actually originally appeared as a Thor villain. Could his first movie appearance be part of a set-up for a later appearance in Thor: The Dark World, due out six months after the third Iron Man movie? [Comics Alliance]
Iron Man 3 comes out May 3rd of next year, with Thor: The Dark World releasing November 8th of next year. That gives them plenty of time to shoehorn more villains into both films. Yay?
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There’s no way this can go wrong!
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
This was the part Andy Lau was originally attached to. So they didn’t add another villain, they just have updated the casting news.
Up and at-them!
Better.
Yes, I’m sure with a title like “The Dark World” and Christopher Eccleston playing Malekith the Dark Elf the new Thor movie will focus on Chinese nuclear scientists instead of, say, the land of the Dark Elves. Really, that speculation is in no way idiotic.
I mean, Mystique started out as a Ms Marvel villain. All these X-Men movies have only been setting up her appearance in the inevitable Ms Marvel movie, which is coming out any day now…
“Disney and DMG Entertainment have decided to Spider-Man 3 it up”
Why? WHY GOD DAMMIT?!
Does this mean Robert Downey Jr will have an Emo phase in this one?
I’m guessing they’ll lean “sympathetic villain who ends up siding with the hero.” Since that’s where he ended up in the comics.
So they’re actually going through with the most racist asian charicature villain in Mandarin? I mean, come on… he had a fu manchu and he had a pet godzilla… I never really cared one way or the other about asian racism, being asian, but that guy is kinda over the top.. It’s like creating a blackface superhero that jumps high and plays madden on his off time.