Writer Drew Pearce Says All Hail The King Will Actively Punish Trevor Slattery

In an interview with Marvel.com, writer Drew Pearce shed some light on the upcoming Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King that will be included with the Blu-ray release of Thor: The Dark World. Pearce says that they had the idea for a short that punished Trevor Slattery for actually coming out a winner in Iron Man 3 (which Pearce also wrote):

"After everything that happened, I thought it would be kind of funny if we actively punished Trevor," said Pearce. "Partly because, on a moral level, amusingly, Trevor--other than Tony and Pepper--is the one that walks away [at the end of 'Iron Man 3'] with the thing that he wanted, which is fame. That's all he ever really wanted all along. He changed his face, he had access to as many stimulants of both flesh and pharmacy that he ever could want, and then everyone knows his name. So in a weird way, Trevor won. Which is why it seemed really interesting to see what the repercussions of that would be."

Pearce goes on to say that it was very important for them to film in an actual, real world prison and that the short would take on some of the feel of a prison movie.

"What's interesting about Trevor, is he's only funny if everything around him is real," said the director. "He's almost funnier the more real and threatening the stuff around him is. So my whole thing all along [was], if we're going to do a short about Trevor, everything else in it has to be real and brutal and kind of scary, because that's kind of the amazing thing about Trevor--in the face of true and actual terror, he still acts like a mental case. And actually, it's almost where he thrives. So that's why we shot in a real prison, [and] a whole bunch of the extras we used were real ex-cons. I really wanted it to feel like we were shooting an early-'70s, late-'60s prison movie that Trevor Slattery had just happened to wander into."

is the latest in a series of shorts to be included in Marvel Studios Bu-ray releases. The short has Sir Ben Kingsley reprising his role as Trevor Slattery, last seen in Iron Man 3 where Aldritch Killian paid him to play the role of the terrorist known as The Mandarin. The short will be included as a Blu-ray special feature with Thor: The Dark World, which will be released on Blue-ray and DVD on February 25, 2014.