‘Iron Man 3’ Was Three Hours Long! Writer/Director Reveals Deleted Scenes, Pepper Potts’ Affair, Censored Cursing;

One of summer's biggest hits, "Iron Man 3" had fans begging for a sequel. The movie would've been more entertaining if it had an "R" Rating along with a car chase, bad words and sex scenes. The writer and director say: "It actually did."

Iron Man 3 Director Shane Black (directed Downey Jr. in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang") and writer Drew Pearce (whose "Runaways" script got shelved in Marvel) share these juicy tidbits.

 Iron Man was originally three hours long!

Shane Black: By the way, a fun fact - although also a tragic and scary fact - is that the movie's assembly cut came in at 3 hours and 15 minutes, and it ended up being 1 hour 59 minutes. We cut 75 minutes of footage. Picture sitting still for 1 hour and 15 minutes. That's a movie. We lost a movie out of the movie. And I don't know how we did it, and that's the miracle - it's always a leap of faith. I never would have believed we could cut it down and still have it make sense.

There was supposed to be a car chase.

Drew Pearce: I miss the car chase. That would have been a lot of fun. On just a purely practical level, the car chase was one of the elements that stayed in the movie pretty late. We location scouted it... there's some amazing art kicking around for it, somewhere in the depths, that will probably make its way into some kind of Phase 2 photo book in three years' time.

Pepper Potts slept with Killian

Shane Black: In the second draft, Pepper slept with Killian because he was so pheromonally enhanced with Extremis that she couldn't resist him. Also, she was angry at Tony. Then he makes a sex tape and broadcasts it in Home Depot!

Drew Pearce: Wow, that seems audacious even by our standards. It was definitely ground breaking. 

There was a lot of cursing!

There were a couple of points early on where I would go, "I don't think we can say that." And you genuinely didn't believe me when I told you we couldn't say fuck in a PG 13 movie. "We're allowed a couple of fucks, right?"

I think you can have one, but our first draft didn't have one. It had a lot.