With filming now underway on the third in the Iron Man franchise, Marvel has teased what's in store by releasing the concept image below. It shows a semi-suited Tony Stark cornered by some angry looking chaps with guns, and by the looks of the smoke trailing from his vambrace, he’s also experiencing something of a technical malfunction.
We know the next film is based on Warren Ellis’ Iron Man: Extremis series, and sees Guy Pearce and Rebecca Hall as virus-developing scientists, alongside Ben Kingsley as possibly the first comic book villain ever to share a name with a citrus fruit, The Mandarin.
Ryan Meinerding is the man behind the impressive image, an illustrator whose artwork has now appeared in the run-up to each of Marvel’s recent pictures as well as the likes of Transformers, Cowboys & Aliens and John Carter.
Iron Man 3 is planned for a May 2013 release date.
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