Guy Pearce Says He Would Be Very Interested to See His IRON MAN 3 Villain Return to the MCU
Emmy Award-winning actor Guy Pearce is best known for his roles in movies and shows like L.A. Confidential, Memento, and Mildred Pierce, but has been in several other projects as well, including one of Marvel’s earlier films, Iron Man 3. In the movie, he played evil genius Aldrich Killian, creator of the A.I.M. organization, who helped weaponize the Extremis technique, and made "The Mandarin" an infamous (faux) icon.
Most fans agree that this character was totally underutilized, and this has had some wonder if he could return to the MCU one day. In a recent interview with ComicBook, the actor was asked about whether he still feels like Aldrich Killian should make a comeback all these years later. Pearce had this to say:
"I'd be very much interested in to see him come back. And I think because of the nature of the character that he is, it's totally conceivable that he could come back. So yes, I would love to see what he is up to, as well. Because he's somebody – obviously as we saw in Iron Man 3 – went through a sort of rapid vast change from the beginning of the story. So who knows where he's ended up."
The report goes on to remind us that Aldrich Killian got one of the more explosive deaths of any Marvel movie villain, after being thoroughly incinerated by Tony Stark and Pepper Potts. However, the Extremis process made some of the most durable super-soldiers in Marvel lore, able to regenerate virtually their entire bodies from catastrophic injury. Even Pepper seemingly fell to her death into a fiery inferno – but still managed to recover quick enough to take out Aldrich and save Tony. As one of the first (and most successful) human applications of Extremis, Aldrich Killian could presumably endure more than most others – maybe even enough to survive what happened in Iron Man 3.
It sounds like a bit of a stretch, but never say never I suppose. What do you think? Could Aldrich Killian return and have it make sense?