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Marvel's Armor Wars | |
Director: | Jon Favreau |
Producer(s): | Kevin Feige Louis D'Esposito Victoria Alonso Thomas M. Hammel Eric Hauserman Carroll Rachel O'Connor |
Writer(s): | Yassir Lester Chinaka Hodge Jon Favreau Drew Pearce |
Release Date: | August 20, 2022 (United States) |
Running Time: | 138 minutes |
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Marvel's Armor Wars is the seventh film in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by MarvelousMarty. The film is directed by Jon Favreau, produced by Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Thomas M. Hammel, Eric Hauserman Carroll, and Rachel O'Connor, and written by Yassir Lester, Chinaka Hodge, Jon Favreau, and Drew Pearce. The film serves as a spiritual sequel to Iron Man 3 which also concludes the rest of the Iron Man film series, and is a predecessor to the following MCU film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Synopsis[]
When the unconscious Tony Stark was declared dead to the eyes of the public by his allies and loved ones as a means to ensure his protection amidst recovery, it backfired on them on a wider scale after two years. In the series of unfortunate events which cascaded, the story follows James Rhodes, War Machine, and his momentous band of determined adventurers who must face what happens when Stark's tech falls into the wrong hands as a mysterious figure had been selling them to his former allies, who have since turned as his greatest enemies during his heroic debut as Iron Man. Thus, a battle across the globe enrages, all for the legacy of Tony Stark and his mantle as the Golden Avenger.
Cast[]
- Iron Legionnaire (Only Appearance) (Disbands)
- Don Cheadle as War Machine (Colonel James Rhodes)
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Rescue (Pepper Potts)
- Jon Favreau as Iron Man (Happy Hogan) (Only Appearance as Iron Man) (Death)
- Dominique Thorne as Ironheart (Riri Williams) (First Appearance)
- Mizuo Peck as Rumiko Fujikawa (First Full Appearance) (Death)
- Mehcad Brooks as Firepower (Captain Jackson "Jack" Taggert) (First Appearance)
- Kerry Condon as F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Voice) (Hologram)
- Helena Bonham Carter as J.O.C.A.S.T.A. (Voice)
- Iron Legionnaire's Allies
- Kristina Asmus as Crimson Dynamo (Galina Nemirovsky) (First Appearance)
- Leonardo DiCaprio as "Infamous" Iron Man (Victor von Doom) (First Appearance as Iron Man)
- Rachel Weisz as War Widow (Melina Vostokoff) (First Appearance as War Widow)
- Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man / Iron Spider (Peter Parker) (First Appearance as Iron Spider)
- Florence Pugh as Black Widow (Yelena Belova)
- O-T Fagbenle as Agent Rick Mason
- Alan Tudyk as Machine Man / X-51 / Aaron Stack (2P45-9-X-51) (First Appearance) (Leaves Iron Legionnaire Rogues Gallery)
- Iron Legionnaire Rogues' Gallery
- Kate Mara as Spymaster / "Ted Calloway" / "Jake Jordan" / "Justine Hammer" (Bethany Cabe) (Returns) (Full name revealed) (Joins and Leaves Iron Legionnaire) (Leaves Stark Unlimited)
- Sam Rockwell as Justin Hammer (Death)
- Oleg Taktarov as Titanium Man (Boris Bullski) (First Appearance)
- Andy Samberg as Stilt Soldier (Michael Watts) (Only Appearance) (Death)
- Wade Williams as Melter (Bruno Horgan) (First Full Appearance) (Death)
- Alan Ruck as D.R.E.A.D. Knight (Bram Velsing) (Only Appearance) (Death)
- Ben Foster as Ezekiel Stane (First Appearance)
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Mysterio (Quentin Beck) (First Appearance as Mysterio)
- Walton Goggins as Sonny Burch
- Peter Billingsley as William Ginter Riva (Returns)
- Emily Beecham as Justine Hammer (First Appearance)
- Paula Newsome as Ronnie Williams (First Appearance)
- Martin Freeman as Agent Everett Ross
- Scoot McNairy as Jackson Norriss (Death)
- Yeo Jin-goo as Amadeus Cho (First Appearance)
- Randall Park as Agent Jimmy Woo
- Giovanni Ribisi as Wilbur Day (First Appearance)
- Paul Bettany as White Vision (Cameo)
- Rob Morgan as Turk Barrett
- Letitia Wright as Black Panther (Princess Shuri) (Cameo)
- Claudia Kim as Dr. Helen Cho (Cameo)
- Tony Leung as "Mandarin" (Xu Wenwu) (First Appearance) (Cameo)
- Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark (Flashbacks) (Archive Footages) (Cameo in Post-Credit Scene)
- Hawley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter (Archive Footage)
- John Slattery as Howard Stark (Archive Footage)
- Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark (Young) (Archive Footage)
- Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane (Archive Footage) (Flashback)
- Rebecca Hall as Maya Hansen (Archive Footage) (Flashback)
- Guy Pearce as Aldrich Killian (Archive Footage) (Flashback)
- Mickey Rourke as Whiplash (Ivan Vanko) (Archive Footage) (Flashback)
- Eugene Lazarev as Anton Vanko (Archive Footage)
- Costa Ronin as Anton Vanko (Young) (Archive Footage)
Trivia[]
- Jon Favreau was chosen as the director of the film, mainly due to him being the most knowledgeable and had the most contribution in the past Iron Man films as he has decided to put the story to a close in an epic finale. That being said, this film would be considered as Jon Favreau's final role as a movie director in the MCU, at least in the meantime.
- Jon Favreau's character, Happy Hogan, has decided to make the ultimate sacrifice in the final battle when Bethany Cabe (Kate Mara), who has conspired with A.I.M. in a plan to launch a group upgraded yet volatile Stark Missiles into different populated cities around the globe to ignite a Third World War by framing Stark Unlimited.
- Kata Mara returns in the film since her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Iron Man 2, portraying a larger, more expanded role from her previous appearance as Bethany Cabe, the new Security Head of the rebranded Stark Industries: Stark Unlimited.
- Starting off as a supporting character, the ending of the plot's climax reveals her true identity as the Spymaster, the main and final antagonist, as the Iron Legionnaire have thought they have pin-pointed the last suspects as Ezekiel Stane (Ben Foster), Justine Hammer (Emily Beecham). Bethany Cabe was revealed to have a grudge for Stark Industries and its leaders, since her loved ones got in a tragedy which involved Stark weapons, rendering her to dedicate the remainder of her life infiltrating the company in her mission to ruin Stark's legacy.
- The film also introduces a new iteration of Jack Taggert, played by Mehcad Brooks, who is a version more faithful to his comic book counterpart as the latter dons an Extremis-powered armor in the movie, dubbed as Firepower. The reason was the writers' choice not to waste the character and his name as a one-off villain in Iron Man 3, but introduce a more comic-accurate one who started off as an anti-hero who bears a similar but more extreme personality than James Rhodes (Don Cheadle).
Sequels[]
Further information: List of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MarvelousMarty) films
- Ironheart (2023-2027)
- The Hulk and the Agents of Atlas (2024)