Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin
There’ve been plenty of shots previously and the first opening sequence piece arriving for All Hail the King, which is part of the February 25th release of Thor: The Dark World. The Marvel One-Shots continue to be fairly different and interesting with what they do, either going for a bit of humor or something more serious, which we got with Agent Carter. The latest clip clocks in at just under a minute and gives us a bit more of Ben Kingsley as Slattery while in Seagate prison after the events of Iron Man 3.
“Imagine a real terrorist organization whose beliefs were long held and religious for thousands of years, and imagine a drunk, British actor coming along and essentially telling the world that he’s the face of your organization,” Iron Man 3 and All Hail the King screenwriter Drew Pearce said. “I think they would be right to be quite angry.”
What’s interesting is that the idea for this particular shot came from Joss Whedon as a way of doing a little fun with it and opening up some other potential avenues for the character and overall brand.
“‘The Further Adventures of Trevor’ was something we had talked about on set all the time, and when we sat down to talk about what the short would be, it was Stephen [Broussard, executive producer of Iron Man 3] and Kevin [Feige, Marvel Studios president] and myself and Joss Whedon and Jeremy Latcham [executive producer of The Avengers.] So we kicked around a bunch of ideas and there were loads of them that we liked, and it was actually Joss who at a certain point went like, ‘Or you could do the one that has Sir Ben Kingsley in it because you have access to Sir Ben Kingsley.’”
“By the end of the short, there are definitely a lot of exciting other places that are brought up in it that could then go in the Marvel universe. You know, whether that’s an Iron Man movie or another one going into Phase Two or Three.”