Director Shane Black says the villain in Iron Man 3 as originally written as a woman.
In the 2013 film Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark faced off against Aldrich Killian, played by Guy Pearce.
But in an interview with Uproxx Black, who also co-wrote the movie, revealed that Killian was a woman in an early version of the script.
However the character was later changed to a man…to sell merchandise.
Black said: ‘There was an early draft of Iron Man 3 where we had an inkling of a problem. Which is that we had a female character… Read the full story