People obviously care about Marvel superhero movies. With the opening of Captain America: Civil War, Marvel is now responsible for three of the top five openings of all time.
But do they care about them too much?
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Filmmaker Shane Black, the director and co-writer of Iron Man 3, has revealed he received death threats from fans of the Marvel superhero for his decision (3-year-old SPOILER ALERT) to reveal in his film that iconic villain Mandarin played by Ben Kingsley was actually a drunk actor named Trevor Slattery who was acting as a front for the think tank Advanced Idea Mechanics formed by the movie’s main villain Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce).
“I’ve actually gotten death threats over Iron Man 3,” Black said while promoting his new film The Nice Guys on KCRW’s pop culture and entertainment radio show The Treatment. “There is an online contingent that is so upset about Mandarin and the twist where he wasn’t a big villain—he was a cobbled-together bogeyman. The think tank made him up.”
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Black’s new film The Nice Guys is a ’70s cop comedy-drama starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. It is unlikely to inspire any death threats.