'Iron Man 3' deleted scene offers more of the Mandarin

Brian Truitt | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption Exclusive clip: 'Iron Man 3' deleted Mandarin scene An exclusive deleted scene featuring Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin from the "Iron Man 3" Blu-ray release.

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So far, Iron Man 3 has been the biggest movie of 2013, and Sir Ben Kingsley turned in arguably the summer season's biggest bad-guy twist.

For those wanting more of his intriguing take on the comic-book supervillain Mandarin, the Blu-ray release of Iron Man 3 (out Sept. 24) features a deleted scene where the Mandarin communicates with one of his operatives before going on TV and delivering a creepy message to the world.

That kind of cyberterrorism and the threat he presents billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) — and his alter ego Iron Man — is a very real one, according to Kingsley.

"He is totally confident in his place in destiny, the future, history, culture, evolution, civilization — I'm afraid that's been going on a very long time," the Oscar-winning actor told USA TODAY in May. "You can go back to black-and-white footage of the 1930s. It's the same guy with the same sense of total righteousness and self-conviction talking rubbish, basically.

"If I can see beautiful genuine patterns of human behavior — not like third-hand copies of something they've seen on a sitcom — then I can introduce my energies into it and give it my best shot."

And when one is offered the kind of iconic villain that the Mandarin is, Kingsley added, "you have to breathe a new life into them and make them a recognizable, however bizarre, human being."

In addition to a bevy of deleted and alternate scenes, the Iron Man 3 Blu-ray includes an audio commentary with director Shane Black, making-of featurettes, gag reel, a behind-the-scenes look at the next Marvel Studios movie Thor: The Dark World and the new "Marvel One Shot" short Agent Carter starring Hayley Atwell.