Tony Stark fights the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 on the big screen but Kieron Gillen explores The Secret Origin of Tony Stark in the Iron Man comic book this summer. The acclaimed writer recently send Tony into deep space in the Godkiller arc and will bring the Armored Avenger back down to Earth.
“There’s a really big idea at the core of it. When I had that idea, I was walking around the airport. I was thinking about Tony in space. Marvel had just emailed me and said that the 50th anniversary [of Iron Man] is coming up and maybe we can have a story that harks back to the beginning of Tony. I was immediately thinking “how on Earth could I possibly do this?” I have Tony Stark in deep space at this point! I stopped and laughed. I shook my head and took a couple of steps. I pitched this really big idea and Marvel looked it and said it make sense. And that’s what’s scary about it. It leads towards stuff that fundamentally changes Tony’s idea of self. That’s where it kind of came from,” Gillen tells Marvel.com.
“The problem is that I don’t want to give too much away. I’m going to talk around stuff. I’ll tease stuff and we’ll talk about [the] period and elements without giving away too much.
I laid the story out and sent it to Marvel and they loved it. The fact that the idea is as big as it is, it went up and down to the highest levels at Marvel and into the realm of lawyers and all that kind of stuff.”
It’s about Maria and Howard [Stark] and them having a baby. It’s about the problems they face having a baby and everything around that, and what parents would do to have a child. All of that stuff. It’s literally the origin of Tony Stark. That’s the story. It’s the Stark origin story, essentially. In a very literal way as in: where did Tony come from?”
For the entire interview here’s the Marvel.com link.
Iron Man #9 with Dale Eaglesham on art arrives May 1. Iron Man 3 blasts into theaters two days later.
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