Who's the real mastermind behind the terrorists who capture Tony Stark in the Iron Man movie, coming May 2? We have the first clues below, along with a new clip. Another new video gives some hints about what could be coming next on Lost, and a new trailer shows off a lot more of the story in Speed Racer. And we reveal even more secrets of Doctor Who's Christmas special. All this, plus new hints about Hancock, Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible and Battlestar. This morning, we spoiler in Hell!
Iron Man:
Some early reviews of Iron Man give away a lot of plot info, in between proclaiming how awesome it is. Tony Stark is in Afghanistan, showing off his new Jericho missile, when he gets captured by a terrorist, Raza. Then we flash back to his life before his kidnapping and meet his assistant, Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow) and his sidekick Jim Rhodes (Terrence Howard). A woman journalist tries to interview Tony but ends up in bed with him.
The Mandarin, Iron Man's arch-nemesis with the ten powerful rings, probably doesn't show up in the movie, but his criminal organization (symbolized by an "X" and ten golden rings) is behind Raza. And Raza the terrorist later teams up with Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges), Tony's mentor who turns on him. When Tony gets back from Afghanistan, he announces that Stark Industries is out of the weapons business, which is when the rift with Stane begins.
As we've been told, we don't get to see Tony's sidekick Jim Rhodes suit up as the armored War Machine in this movie. But Tony refers to Rhodesy as a "war machine" at least twice, because whenever Tony follows Rhodes' advice, violence and mayhem result.
Yin Sen, the doctor who helps Tony build his early armor in the cave when he's a prisoner of Raza, is a Lebanese-Gulmirian(??) doctor who's kidnapped by Raza to keep Tony alive.
Tony doesn't really build the second version of his armor himself, he just tells the computer to build it for him, and the computer says it'll be ready in five hours. Tony's armor includes "caller ID" and various other silly toys. There are a lot of sequences of Tony getting used to the armor and figuring out what he can do with it, including some pratfalls that you may already have seen.
The biggest problem with the film is that you've already seen all the cool scenes in the various trailers and previews. And here's a new two-minute clip, only a little of which you've seen before. [Aint It Cool News]
And here are a few more brief low-res When clips which show Tony Stark being kind of a dick. It's mostly bits of scenes we've seen before, but with a bit more detail. [Slashfilm]
Hancock:
Another early review of Hancock confirms some of the spoilers we posted before about Hancock being a god with amnesia, and also confirms that it's a pretty terrible movie. Apparently, there's a full half hour of Hancock causing property damage with drunken and incompetent superhero-ing. And then 15 minutes of Hancock in prison, shoving various objects up people's butts. And then there's a brief stretch of Hancock trying, incompetently, to be a nice guy, during which he foils a bank robbery and then goes around saying "Good job" over and over again. [Aint It Cool again]
Speed Racer:
Here's a new international trailer for Speed Racer, which shows off a lot more of the film's story, including the million-dollar reward that the villanous Royalton puts out for Speed's head. And the suitcase of money that Royalton offers Speed to sell out. And you can see more of the sequences where people try to muscle in on Speed or just obliterate him with rocket launchers.
Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog
Joss Whedon's online show Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog includes a scene in a homeless shelter's soup kitchen. [Alterna-TV]
In Friday's Battlestar Galactica episode, Starbuck has rifts with her skeleton crew on the search for Earth. And the Cylon civil war continues. [SliceofSciFi]
Doctor Who:
The Doctor Who Christmas special is still filming, and the set includes trailers for "Hot Scottie Totty" (David Tennant?), "The Other Doctor," and "Miss Hartigan." Dervla Kerwin, who's famous for doing commercials in England, may be the temporary companion. Also, it appears that the Cybermen are taking over a Victorian ironworks and possibly building new Cyber-peeps out of scrap metal. Ooh, and here's a photo of one of those bronze-y Cyber-Wraiths at last, plus a video of the shooting. [Planet Gallifrey]
And here are some promo stills from this Saturday's Doctor Who episode, where the Doctor and Donna land on the icy planet of the Ood. [David Tennant Albumpost]
Lost:
The next new Lost episode features an explosion that injures one of the castaways (I'm guessing Jack) and the freighter people start "wreaking havoc" on the islanders. Plus, here's a new behind-the-scenes video (from EW.com) which hints that we'll be seeing more of the sub and Henry Gale's balloon. [Spoilers Lost]
Remember how E! Online's Kristin listed a bunch of Lost spoilers, all of which were false except for one, on April Fool's Day? She now says that the true spoiler involves one of her "all-time favorite Losties," and is good news. To my mind, that narrows it down to: Desmond gets off the island despite not being one of the Oceanic Six; and Jin, Sun and Locke are all alive on the island in the future. [E! Online]















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Victorian-era Cybermen. Suddenly I'm picturing steampunk Cybermen and it's making me happy.
"Other Doctor"? Now THAT's interesting.
"To my mind, that narrows it down to: Desmond gets off the island despite not being one of the Oceanic Six; and Jin, Sun and Locke are all alive on the island in the future." Well, it can't be that last one can it? Didn't Sun deliver her baby in Ji Yeon? And Hurley was around. And Jin died (probably not).
Skimming past the spoilers just to say...
Love the picture we are using for Morning Spoilers now...
Unfortunately I can read lips too!
I'm still excited for Iron Man, too bad most/all of the coolest parts have already been spoilered in videos..
@Log1c: That is why I haven't been watching the videos, or watching anything but the first five seconds of the trailers.
I will be very pleased with Iron Man, I think.
I confess - I haven't watched one episode of Lost since February. It feels great.
Jin could be alive back at the island.
I still hope that "Desmond is not one of the Oceanic Six, but he is off the Island" is the correct one.
Is Iron Man getting a global release? If yes w00t!!
Also, [www.aintitcool.com]
Speed Racer: "You don't get behing the wheel of a T180 to be a driver. You do it because you're driven." They should have had Stallone do a cameo to deliver that line.
@Log1c: Like braak, I stop watching trailers and even go so far as to mute or change the TV channel if a TV spot for the movie comes on. I only do this for movies I'm already hyped for, of course. And I only do it as the release date draws near. I haven't seen anything on Iron Man since the "Tank" trailer aside from some video game gameplay videos (HA! that's a mouthful).
At the moment I can't remember the last movie I did this for, but I do remember being disappointed by the movie. I think it was Spider-Man 3.
Fortunately, I think Iron Man's going to be supported by the rules of Marvel Franchise Movies they've set up recently.
1st one: Whoa!
2nd one: WHOA!
3rd one: ...crap.
OK, can someone give me a brief explanation of what the glowy thing in/on Tony Starks chest is?
@osiris83: The desmond one makes the most sense to me. I doubt they'd pull he and Penny back together if, ultimateley, the point wasn't to let them live happily ever after.
@Git Em SteveDave:
It's his high tech pacemaker, which both keeps him alive AND powers his armor
That is not Heny Gales submarine, as you mentioned above. It is his baloon gondola.
@MJLavelle: Whoops. Meant to type "the sub and Henry Gale's balloon."
@wingbatwu: What powers it?
@Log1c: All the best parts? I've yet to see one scene showing off repulsor blasts, the uni-beam, or pulse bolts. Show me some of that action, then I'll decide if we've already seen the best parts.
Dear io9 please make the sound quality on your various video clips work more smoothly.
@[Dextr]: Well, it could still be the one about Jin being alive on the island even with the events in Ji Yeon. The gravestone said he died in the crash, so he could just be a part of the Great Big Lie they got going on.
@lebaneseblond:
Dear io9,
Please explain to everyone how streaming video works differently for different users depending on their bandwidth, isp, traffic on their part of the pipeline, traffic on the streaming server, and specific computer capabilities and settings, especially security settings.
e.g. audio is great for me; video is not keeping up. I do not expect io9 to fix this, mostly because it is *not their problem*
@sumocat: Yes, I myself enjoy the part of the movie that contains the... uhm, what's it called? Oh, yeah. The plot.
I hope Desmond makes it off the island. He wouldn't be one of the Oceanic 6 anyway as he wasn't on that flight.
@JennaW: Wait, wait. You mean Gizmodo doesn't have control over the content of other websites, or the internet in general? I find that highly dubious.
@joemono: Wouldn't most of the characters not be on the island if they weren't on the flight?
@AdamL: Yeah, totally OMFG-like, but I bet it's not what we think...
Anyone else completely put off by that fucking horrible "Doctor Whoooooo-HEY!"-tribute/remix song? Was it just added to the vid or where they playing that shit on the set? What tripe... They should have played this one instead!:
+ Watch video
@Git Em SteveDave:
Geek Jizz
Oh, the words out now. The Iron Man trailer is going to be remade into a full length feature film!
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@lebaneseblond: I had some playback troubles too, but I doubt it's IO9. They're just streaming it from somewhere else, or somewheres else, or somewheres elses, depending on how much you like the drinky.
But yea, smoother playback is ... teh bonus!
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