Iron Man 3: Don Cheadle and Shane Black

(Iron Man by Black Sabbath)

I like stories,

I grew up reading comic books,

I grew up reading Spiderman,

I'm all over the place.

I enjoy being in big movies like this,

with a lot of action,

I like being in small movies

that cost fifteen bucks to make

where you have to bring your own clothes.

Well, Shane's obviously bringing his own flare to it,

and the script that he and Drew wrote

is very different, and nuanced in a very different way.

But it still feels like

certain things had to be paid off in the same way.

And in fact, I owe sort of a debt to Favreau

I have to carry on what he started

without violating it.

At the same time bring into it

my own enhancement if I can,

but he's been helping me,

and giving me tips and advice along the way.

So this is a guy who's been enormously generous

with his time, given that he's not directing,

and still around and still wants to be in it.

He's just been so gracious

that I can say nothing but wonderful things

about how helpful he's been.

That said, yeah, it will look a little different.

I hope I can protect

the one thing I cannot live without.

These people at Marvel have done this a lot

and they hold your hand through the whole thing,

so if I have a question about effects,

I've learned more in a year now

than anybody else would in a decade.

[Voiceover] - Lesson number one:

heroes, there is no such thing.

[Don Cheadle] It feels a little more scarily possible.

[Shane Black] Yeah we had kind of a conundrum

in that The Avengers opens up this huge sky hall

full of inter dimensional aliens,

and you look back and think,

Well, you know, what do you do after that,

except go back to a more gritty, intense

techno thriller route?.

I saw the script and I went,

Wow, that's some different flavor that we haven't seen.

You just go in and you wrestle,

you gotta just kinda jerk things around a little bit,

and mix it up so that there's still more story to tell.

And the way you do that is

you treat it like the first two

were part of an ongoing story that hasn't finished yet.

The journeys are all mythic

in a way that we recognise from a lot of years,

hundreds and hundreds and thousands of years,

mythic superhero stories.

Today's world is so complicated,

that the simplicity of myth has come back round

with a desire, and I think a need

on the part of people,

to feel and see that.

That's unprecedented given just how confusing

the world is right now.

[Voiceover] Some people call me a terrorist,

I consider myself a teacher.

Robert Downey Jr.'s character,

we're not dealing with his alcoholism,

but we ran out of money so there is a scene at the end

where he falls off a wagon,

as part of the effect.

It was kinda last minute.

Oh my god.