Iron Man 4

Iron Man 4 is an upcoming American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is the fourth installment in the Iron Man film franchise and a sequel to Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010) and Iron Man 3 (2013) as well as the fifteenth installment in the Marvel Cinematic Uniiverse. Shane Black is once again set to direct and Kevin Fiege and Jon Favreau will produce the film based on a screenplay by Skip Woods. Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Paul Bettany all reprice their roles from the previous installments. The film is set for release on May 9, 2017.

Cast

 * Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man


 * Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts


 * Don Cheadle as James Rhodes / War Machine
 * Daniel Day-Lewis as George Tarleton / MODOK
 * Michael Shannon as Rhys O'Brien / Titanium Man
 * Maggie Grace as Whitney Frost / Madame Masque
 * Tim Robbins as Edwin Cord
 * Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill


 * Paul Bettany as JARVIS
 * Jon Favreau as Happy Hogun
 * Stan Lee as Hugh Hefner (cameo)

Plot
The story is still unknown at this point in production but director Shane Black has hinted that a certin amount of the plot will be an original piece. In November 2016 a full-length trailer hit the web and revealed various scenes including a battle at a charity event, a battle between War Machine and Titanium Man and a scene taking place in space with Iron Man attempting to prevent three nuclear missiles from reaching their targets. These scenes have began speculation that the villain of the movie could be The Mandarin who was last scene in his underground lair before it exploded in Iron Man 3 and that he and his Ten Rings organisation is behind the terrorist attacks in the trailer.

Production
Following the release of Iron Man 3 on May 3, 2013, Walt Disney Pictures where pushing for another installment to the invincible avenger's film series and when it was confirmed that Robert Downey, Jr. would reprice the role of the famous genius, billionaire, playboy, philathropist in the sequel to 2012's highly anticipated The Avengers, Marvel Studios released a statement that Downey, Jr. had signed on to two more Marvel pictures and would reprice the role in Iron Man 4 and The Avengers 3. In October 2015, it was confirmed that Marvel and Disney plan to release Iron Man 4 on May 9, 2017 and that Shane Black will be back to direct alongside Kevin Fiege and Jon Fevreau as producers. In January 2016, Marvel confirmed that Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Paul Bettany would reprice their respective roles of Pepper Potts, James Rhodes and the voice of JARVIS.

On the red carpet premiere of The Avengers 2 in Los Angeles on May 6, 2016, Downey, Jr. announced that filming on Iron Man 4 is due to begin in the next few weeks. In June, 2016, CNN announced that Michael Shannon was cast in an unkown role. In August 2016, it was confirmed that Shannon would play Rhys O'Brien aka Titanium Man. In an interview with MTV, Shane Black stated that filming will begin in July in Toronto and that the CN tower will serve as Cord Industries tower as well as this, he also mentioned that Tim Robbins has been cast as Edwin Cord. In August 2016, Fiege announced that Maggie Grace has been cast in an unspecified role, later that month Grace confirmed she would be playing Whitney Frost, "an old friend of Tony's who attracts his attention once more". In a September 2016 interview with Black, the director confirmed that Titanium Man won't be the only villain and that "there will be another big villain working with him". In early November of that year it was confirmed that Maggie Grace's character will be transformed into Madame Masque. That same month, a first full-length trailer was released onto the web. The trailer showed scenes of a life and death conversation between Tony and Rhody, a battle between War Machine and Titanium Man, an action scene taking place during a charity event which involved Maria Hill and Tony Stark in the middle of the havoc, an explosion in Stark tower, a pleased Whitney Frost telling Tony (who is tied up sitting on a chair in a dark room) that he will finally get his everlasting peace, a scene of Iron Man attempting to prevent three nuclear rockets from reaching their targets just above the atmosphere, a scene with Tony watching monitor screens showing his heroism and glory in the same dark room and a number of scene showing other cast members including Edwin Cord in his office, Pepper Potts during the charity event and Happy Hogan looking shocked as a shot down helicopter head right at him. In January 2017 Stan Lee spoke of his cameo in the film: "it's awesome, for the first time i'm NOT playing my self. I met up with them [the Iron Man 4 crew] and i said "what's Stan gonna do next" and they said "nothin', your playing Hugh Hefner". I remember in the first one [Iron Man (2008)] Tony Stark mistook me for Hugh Hefner, now he recognises me at a charity event as Stan Lee and i correct him saying "No no no, you got it all wrong, i'm Hugh... Hefner!". I love that one... and i know you'll love it too!". In February 2017 actor Daniel Day-Lewis was cast as the main villain of the movie. Later that month Shane Black confirmed in an interview that Day-Lewis was cast as George Trleton also known as the supervillain and AIM (advanced idea mechanics) leader MODOK.

Armor
Shane Black stated that he is working closely with the costume designers and that "a lot of effort is going into creating a new set of armor that will show off more of that comicbook side of Iron Man and present some different interesting new colour schemes", as well as this Black also stated that one of the many armor audiences will experience in the film will be the Deep Dive armor. Black confirmed that non of the previous movie armor will be back but instead the designers and artists have created a set of five new armors for Iron Man and War Machine to use, these armors include:
 * Mark XI - this armor has been confirmed to be the main armor used throughout 2/3 of the film. The colour scheme is set to be the traditional red and gold. It was confirmed that this armor would be the most agile and sleak armor yet. It has also been confirmed that this will be the upgraded Extremis armor and will also gain the ability of a timed invisibility cloak.
 * Mark X - this has been confirmed to be a white coloured space armor.
 * Mark IX - this has been confirmed to be a smaller version of the Hulkbuster armor with heavy equiped weapons. The colour scheme has been announced to be simply dark red featuring a silver mask.
 * War Machine Mark II - this armor has been confirmed as a redesigned War Machine armor with a light greyish colour scheme. The armor was announced to contain two different battle modes, both to be explored in the film.
 * Titanium Man - this is the armor used by Rhys O'Brien. The armor will be a similar size to Tony Stark's Mark IX armor and will have an army camouflage colour scheme.

Release
Iron Man 4 is set for a May 9, 2017 release date. The film is being produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.