'Iron Man 3' Trailer: Mandarin Makes His Move

The newly released "Iron Man 3" trailer is jam-packed with information, brand-new Iron Patriot armor, and lots of doom -- portraying the fact that Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), S.H.I.E.L.D  and perhaps even the U.S. President too, are in deep trouble.

After a rapid-fire display of action sequences, destruction and plot points are revealed, the final frames of the preview footage symbolically show the lights going out on an already dilapidated "Iron Man 3" logo. Then we see Tony dragging a seemingly inoperable suit through the snow.

The much anticipated film, directed by Jon Favreau’s former “Iron Man” and “Iron Man 2″ consultant Shane Black (“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”), is due out May 3, 2013.


The trailer (check it out below) begins with a shot of a battered Iron Man falling into snow, his arc reactor flickering on his chest as he removes his mask and reveals a bloodied face.

The trailer also shows Iron Man saving people as they fall from a plummeting airplane; Stark lying in a hospital room, surrounded by doctors; Pepper Potts grimacing from behind some kind of metal restraints; Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) lying among rubble; and a new suit with a star-spangled paint job. There’s also a disturbing image of a mystery suit grabbing Pepper Potts while she’s in bed with a sleeping Tony Stark. The trailer ends with Stark, pulling his Iron Man suit through the snow.

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