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New Details on Marvel's Next One-Shot Film 'All Hail the King'

Well, it looks like Trevor Slattery is back for more!

*Contains Iron Man 3 spoilers*

When it was announced All Hail the King would be the title of the Marvel One-Shot on Thor: The Dark World's blu ray, many of us immediately assumed that meant it would be about someone from Thor's world (keeping in spoiler-free if you still haven't seen the film). However, Entertainment Weekly has revealed the one-shot will be all about the man you either loved or loathed in Iron Man 3: Trevor Slattery (played by Ben Kingsley). According to EW, the film will be 14-minutes long and is written and directed by Iron Man 3's co-writer, Drew Pearce. The man who pretended to be the Mandarin is spending his time Seagate prison and has agreed to an interview with a documentary filmmaker. Pearce tells EW that the real Ten Rings isn't too pleased with Slattery's performance and "they would be right to be quite angry."

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When asked if this could serve as a prologue for a potential fourth Iron Man movie, Pearce implied it could. Based on that remark, you can't help but wonder if this one-shot will reveal the "real" Mandarin. Viners, are you happy to see the return of Slattery or were hoping to never see the character again? Let us know below.

Thor: The Dark World comes out on blu ray/DVD February 25.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

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@cuddlebear said:

trevor is just marvel realizing that their movies will be goofy and dated in 10 years while The Dark Knight will be as revered Citizen Kane in 100 years.

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Why would they do this? Iron Man 3 sucked. I see no point in trying to "convince" people to like the Mandarin.

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Apparently there's a cameo from another MCU character. I'm guessing Justin Hammer (I mean, he was shipped off to prison at the end of IM2).

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@roman_sionis:

With all due respect, your hypothesis seems to be in the minority, a rather far-fetched one...can still happen though.

What do you mean by hater?

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Not really excited that Trevor is coming bck but hopefully we see the "real" Mandarin

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@cuddlebear said:

trevor is just marvel realizing that their movies will be goofy and dated in 10 years while The Dark Knight will be as revered Citizen Kane in 100 years.

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@roman_sionis: The Ten Rings was his network of terrorists. Since Avengers IM may be willing to go a new route, but traditionally in the IM movies it's still been focused on hi tech as opposed to alien quasi magical plot devices.

Also I don't think giving a goofball like Trevor the rings of power really matters. He is a joke. Now if they show a true Mandarin with the rings, AWESOME. But otherwise there really isn't a plausible way I can think of to make it work without retconning IM3.

And I'll wear the term of hater in this case proudly. The disrespect shown to the "Mandarin" in IM 3 is unforgivable. I'm not be fed crap like that with a smile. I'll be happy to let you know I dislike it.

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I liked the reveal and I liked Trevor as a character. I'm glad we get to see more of him. I'm not buying the dvd but when this hits the web I'll be sure to watch it.

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trevor is just marvel realizing that their movies will be goofy and dated in 10 years while The Dark Knight will be as revered Citizen Kane in 100 years.

....no...

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@roman_sionis: The Ten Rings was his network of terrorists. Since Avengers IM may be willing to go a new route, but traditionally in the IM movies it's still been focused on hi tech as opposed to alien quasi magical plot devices.

Also I don't think giving a goofball like Trevor the rings of power really matters. He is a joke. Now if they show a true Mandarin with the rings, AWESOME. But otherwise there really isn't a plausible way I can think of to make it work without retconning IM3.

And I'll wear the term of hater in this case proudly. The disrespect shown to the "Mandarin" in IM 3 is unforgivable. I'm not be fed crap like that with a smile. I'll be happy to let you know I dislike it.

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Disappointed...I thought it was going to be a Loki short

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Oh... great.

On the upside - SEAGATE PRISON!

Luke Cage's going to turn up as a tease, I just know it.

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All of Iron Man 3 seems like a throw away. It doesn't even tie into the Gauntlet build up. For one, why does anyone named Mandarin looks like an Arab...yeah...

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I'm just glad they're trying to make up for their huge mistake that is Iron Man 3. I really hope the "real" Mandarin (and I mean the Chinese one that has the ten rings) is played by Ken Watanabe. He would be so perfect.

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I enjoyed Trevor, but I can see why a lot of fans hated the twist

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Maybe a forth movie could heal the terrible wound caused by the terrible third movie.

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@roman_sionis: Don't care, it was still shit, just because it COULD get better, does not mean what happened is not shit anymore.

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@mister_sensational said:
@gothamred said:
@leokearon said:

The real Mandarin was Killian.

Great to see Trevor back

Sort of, there's a lot of work arounds to that. One that he had no connection to the 10 rings from the first film who were meant to tie into the mandarin at some point. When Killian said he was the Mandarin it's more likely he meant figuratively, that he wrote and created the Mandarin that Slattery played and he caused all the attacks so HE in that way was the mandarin that people were afraid of. That how I took that. There's still a way that a more traditional mandarin could exist in the MCU and Killian used like a legend of him to influence his figure.

Great point and that's exactly how I looked at it too. Killian didn't literally mean he was the Mandarin, he was basically saying to Tony in that moment that, "All this time you've been chasing after an apparition, a figment of my imagination while this whole time I was the one you should've been going after because I'm the true mastermind behind all this."

When this reveal first happened, I would get incredibly annoyed at people that said he was speaking figuratively. They would complain that the Mandarin was a joke because of Slattery, but then completely ignore that Slattery was not the Mandarin to justify their complaint. The Mandarin may have been inaccurate (which I don't mind one bit), but he was NOT a joke. Now that Iron Man 3 is out on blu-ray, I'm glad I can now quote it and tell everybody that the developer commentary says he meant it literally. I would still love to see another reveal of a 'real' Mandarin (I kept expecting one all the way up through the credits), but until a writer decides to make that happen, Killian is LITERALLY the Mandarin.

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This was a ridiculous idea to begin with and Marvel pimped us with that silliness. someone said that the character should not have existed to begin with and they are 110% correct. Utter non sense.

I do not wish to see him back, even tho he was not the only reason that IM3 sucked. AND IT DID SUCK Marvelites!

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@drellassassin: Ignoring all the times they've reinvented him to be more tolerable, and yet the equally-racial stereotype Luke Cage is getting a series on Netflix? Where is the justice in that?

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I enjoyed Trevor, but I can see why a lot of fans hated the twist

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@roman_sionis: I did consider that, but I think that Trevor's introduction scene would mean that the Mandarin has lost all dignity as a character.

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Though I hated the twist and IM3 in general, I thought Mr. Kingsley's character was pretty funny and interesting. Will be cool to see what happens to him in this short.

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Nice! I cannot wait to see that. 14 minutes is really a long time for One-shot Marvel. Blu-Ray, here I come!

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@amazingwebhead: On the contrary, The Mandarin could easily use Trevor to remove any potential thought threat he may have when he appears.

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When I saw "king" I was hoping it was Black Bolt...

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When I saw "king" I was hoping it was Black Bolt...

You need a hug to quell your disappointment?

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@tyrus said:

SEAGATE PRISON!!!! LUKE CAGE!!!!!!!!!!!

Give us Luke!

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More Ben Kingsley, the better I say! Also if Luke Cage does show up, FTW!!!

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Don't want to see him again.

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I'm still hoping for a masters of evil / Intelligencia movie, need a she hulk vs Titania film, wizard, mad tinkerer, MODOK, Then we have Leader, red skull, Abomination, Arnim Zola, Loki.

So I want a real Manderin, but I'm not bothered if he is in an Iron Man 4 or a member of a team of evil doers like an anti avengers lol

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I thought it was about BP.

Nevertheless, i hated how they made The Mandarin for Iron Man III. So i'm not too excited for this one.

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#45 Posted by M3th (1719 posts) - 1 month, 1 day ago - Show Bio

Fangirls can keep crying. MetH cannot wait to watcH tHis.

-ABstract4$$#073-

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