After seeing Guy Pearce as Peter Weyland in the TED 2023 viral video I thought he would make a perfect smarmy corporate type to match wits and go to war with Tony Stark. Weyland is the head of the sinister company in the Alien films and behind the mission in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.
Variety reports that Pearce may join Iron Man 3 as scientist Aldrich Killian. Ben Kingsley is on board the sequel based on the Warren Ellis/Adi Granov story Extremis. Killian creates nanotechnology that gets seized by terrorists.
I’ve provided an Amazon link to Iron Man Extremis if you want to check it out.
By Editor