Guy Pearce In Talks To Join “Iron Man 3” as Aldrich Killian!

As reported by Variety, Guy Pearce is in final talks to play geneticist Aldrich Killian in Shane Black’s “Iron Man 3”. Why not make a giant move like this after last week’s “Lockout” landed with a thud. Things aren’t all bad for Pearce though. He’s in Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” coming out on June 8th.

The good news revealed in the article is that the third movie will be based largely on Warren Ellis’ “Extremis” storyline from a few years ago.

As reported by Variety:

Shane Black is helming the film, that brings back Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark and Iron Man, along with Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Scarlett Johansson also set to return to the franchise. Ben Kingsley is set to play the villain.

Plot will borrow elements from Warren Ellis’ six-issue “Iron Man: Extremis” comicbooks, that also heavily influenced the first “Iron Man” pic, and focuses heavily on the spread of a virus through nanotechnology.

In the books, Killian co-created the Extremis technology that Iron Man adopts after Killian sells it to terrorists.

Production on the film begins in May, with lensing to take place around North Carolina.

Disney has skedded “Iron Man 3” for May 3, 2013.