User blog comment:Kate.moon/News on Iron Man 3 Villain/@comment-3317214-20120410083600

Okay, where's your source saying that it will be based on Extremis? Also, although I would love for the Mandarin to be the main villain, the director Shane Black has expressed that he feels the Mandarin is a racist chariacature. So, I doubt he'll be the main villain. He might appear, what with Jon Favreau as executive producer (seeing as it was his plan for the third), but in what way, I'm not sure. Also, considering that even Marvel kinda believe that Iron Man 2 didn't focus enough on Iron Man, and worked as more of an introduction to the avengers, and considering that we will have just crossed over heaps of films the year before, I think they'll want Iron Man 3 to be pretty much just about Iron Man.