The Avengers: The Motion Picture Discussion Thread- Open SPOILERS -enter at own risk!

[Darth Snoopy]

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Was checking out Superhero Hype and saw this article there...

Cobie Smulders on Playing Maria Hill in The Avengers

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Zap2it talked to Cobie Smulders ("How I Met Your Mother") about taking on the role of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill in Joss Whedon's The Avengers. Smulders, who was Whedon's first choice for his shelved Wonder Woman feature, said that they "start in April, which is like... tomorrow. I literally leave here and I go to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to shoot some scenes in a catsuit."
She added that she has "tried on portions of the catsuit [and] I've seen conceptual drawings of what they want it to be. It's fascinating to me. I feel like wardrobe becomes very creative on these types of movies because they literally spend weeks designing just the pants or the emblem. It's such an all-consuming process, so I'm excited to see how it all turns out."
Smulders will be joined by the all-star cast of Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Clark Gregg, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson and Mark Ruffalo in New Mexico. Walt Disney Pictures will release Marvel Studios' The Avengers on May 4, 2012.

 

[jye4ever]

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While Paramount had their big Marvel Studios presentation last night, Walt Disney Pictures wasn't going to let any of the CinemaCon attendees forget that they're taking over distribution of the Marvel movies starting in May 2012 with The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon.

About halfway through the presentation, they surprised us by showing a sizzle reel assembled from footage from previous Marvel movies along with EPK-style interviews with various members of the cast for the ensemble action film. The reel included some new footage we haven't seen from Thor where he's smashing his hammer down and causing waves of destruction, what looked like some pre-vis for The Avengers, as well as our first look at what Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye costume is going to look like.

Basically, Hawkeye's costume is going to be very similar to the Ultimates version of the character and what he looks like on the cover to the left. In the concept art, we see Renner wearing similar dark glasses and a leather outfit with a matching over-the-shoulder leather quill for his arrows, only the movie version of Hawkeye has the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo emblazoned on it to show his government allegiances. His precision bow is much like the one used by archers who do it for sports and hunting, which again, is also much like the Ultimates Hawkeye has in the picture to the left.

The short presentation also included a little bit with Mark Ruffalo talking about the Hulk and how he's definitely going to be a hero in this movie rather than being the catalyst that brings the group together as was the case in the early comics, although as we seen in the comics too many times, you can't put these many egos together without a few fights happening along the way. There was no mention of Skrulls.

 

[Agent0028]

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We're going to need a scene or two to see how Hulk is brought into the fold. The end of Hulk didn't really seem like Tony was trying to recruit him, but I guess Tony was going to the General for help finding Hulk.

Any better theories?

 

[King Darkness]

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Marvel trucks rolled through last night on the way to Albuquerque to begin filming this week.

That is all

 

[The Mike]

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We're going to need a scene or two to see how Hulk is brought into the fold. The end of Hulk didn't really seem like Tony was trying to recruit him, but I guess Tony was going to the General for help finding Hulk. Any better theories?

Hulk is mission 1. The newly formed Avengers go after The Hulk to capture him, are successful and bring him back. The Skrulls or whatever the enemy is would be mission 2. The team realizes that they need help, Banner insists he can control The Hulk and has been working on it so they release him on the baddies and you've got him back on the team.

 

[jye4ever]

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Hulk is mission 1. The newly formed Avengers go after The Hulk to capture him, are successful and bring him back. The Skrulls or whatever the enemy is would be mission 2. The team realizes that they need help, Banner insists he can control The Hulk and has been working on it so they release him on the baddies and you've got him back on the team.

Spoiler

Confirmed with the end credits after Thor that Loki will continue on as the baddie in the Avengers.

My question is, will the Hulk finally be shown as a "Superhero" after the Avengers deal with him vs him being chased all the time by General Ross.

I want to finally see the smart hero Hulk on screen.

 

[CelticPredator]

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And then by the next movie, he'll be recast!

 

[Oscar_the_Gungan]

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I'm not a huge fan of The Ultimates, especially with how Cap was depicted, but I thought the finale with Thor downing alien spaceships with his hammer and all the carnage going on with the Hulk would blow people away if it was translated for the big screen. Not trying to get my hopes up too much but I'm hoping it ends up being as close to epic as that was.
I'm also thinking I will be a tad disappointed if we don't see Tony don a Hulkbuster suit in the beginning.
The positive Thor reviews have me encouraged because I always thought the trickiest thing about an Avengers movie would be introducing Thor and it sounds like they nailed it so far.
I hope everything pans out because there would be a couple of things that would be a dream come true after the Avengers. My least likely dream would be a live action Planet Hulk movie set after the Avengers and probably my most probable would be an Avengers sequel involving Kang. I think that would be one of the few ways to top the Skrulls, especially if we see the Avengers invade a 30th century Kirbyesque future ruled by Kang.
Now I'm rambling but it is just hard not to geek out about some of the possibilities.

 

[jye4ever]

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And then by the next movie, he'll be recast!

At the rate they're going even you and I will have a shot a playing Banner one day

I'm going to play the Charlie Sheen version of Banner.

 

[Kabukiman]

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I'm not a huge fan of The Ultimates

I've only read vol. 1 (I'm a late bloomer to Ultimate Marvel), but I really liked a lot of things about The Ultimates. Then, at about issue 4, the celebrity name dropping becomes unbearable. I just about stopped reading after "HULK WANT FREDDIE PRINZE JUNOIR!!!!"

 

[The Mike]

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Ultimate Marvel went to ____ after about issue 50 for most titles. Before Ultimatum it was seriously ____ed and now I've tried to catch back into the reboot and it's really crappy.

As for the "spoiler" that is fine, it ties back into the original basis for the Hulk and The Avengers way back into the 1960s. I would wager that particular character is more of a catalyst than the actual villain especially since confirmations of what will be in The Avengers have been running rampant and contradictory. Given that filming is beginning we'll get more solid answers but I still think the Skrulls will be involved as early reports were indicating.

 

[jye4ever]

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Taken from a movie website regarding Avengers script clarification:

This is not really a news story, but I feel compelled to run it anyway, just to clear some things up. Late last week Zak Penn – good guy, director of some really funny mockumentary films, and one-time writer of The Avengers – did a little bit of press for his new TV show Alphas. Of course The Avengers came up, and Zak was a little vague when discussing it, citing an NDA (you can read all of his comments here).

Some folks have been running his thoughts on the film as a news break about the film, but I wanted to clear up this fact: Zak Penn is not credited on The Avengers. The only name on the script is Joss Whedon, who did a page one rewrite. Now, Whedon and Penn were both working with the same source material and producer mandates, so it’s possible the drafts have similarities and that future WGA wrangling could come into play – perhaps this is why Penn is being vague – but for the time being know that Whedon is the official solitary writer of The Avengers.

So leave Zak Penn alone, unless you’re asking him about Alphas, which is coming to the SyFy Channel.

 

[Agent0028]

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Hulk is mission 1. The newly formed Avengers go after The Hulk to capture him, are successful and bring him back. The Skrulls or whatever the enemy is would be mission 2. The team realizes that they need help, Banner insists he can control The Hulk and has been working on it so they release him on the baddies and you've got him back on the team.

That's what I was expecting, but this makes it sound like that's not the case. Unless I am misunderstanding something. It won't be the first time.

The short presentation also included a little bit with Mark Ruffalo talking about the Hulk and how he's definitely going to be a hero in this movie rather than being the catalyst that brings the group together as was the case in the early comics, although as we seen in the comics too many times, you can't put these many egos together without a few fights happening along the way. There was no mention of Skrulls.

Ultimate Marvel went to ____ after about issue 50 for most titles. Before Ultimatum it was seriously ____ed and now I've tried to catch back into the reboot and it's really crappy.

As for the "spoiler" that is fine, it ties back into the original basis for the Hulk and The Avengers way back into the 1960s. I would wager that particular character is more of a catalyst than the actual villain especially since confirmations of what will be in The Avengers have been running rampant and contradictory. Given that filming is beginning we'll get more solid answers but I still think the Skrulls will be involved as early reports were indicating.

I really enjoyed the Ultimate Universe at first, but it did really go down hill. I dropped after Ultimatum and was thinking of going back, sounds like I'm better off letting it be.

I did really enjoy Ultimate Spider-Man. There were some story arcs that weren't as good, but I felt that one maintained a pretty good quality throughout.

 

[jye4ever]

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Not my words, from some movie website :


This weekend Chris Evans and Samuel L Jackson showed up in crowded Times Square to shoot some material for an upcoming Marvel movie. All reports say it was for Captain America: The First Avenger, and some say that Joe Johnston was there. But here’s what’s interesting: there’s a Cap being confused in modern Times Square scene in the script for The Avengers!

Is it possible that this scene has been taken from the Avengers script and put into Captain America: The First Avenger as a bridge moment? At this point there’s a cut of Captain America, so it’s possible that the studio has watched it and decided they needed a little extra oomph at the end. I don’t know what they shot, but early scripts ended with Cap still in ice, being found by Fury and friends. Obviously the finished film will be going a touch farther than that. And Marvel is always happy to shoot the cameos and tie-ins incredibly late in the game. Iron Man 2 and Thor both shot cameo scenes a few weeks before release.

Of course the other possibility is that it is for The Avengers after all. That film officially starts shooting today, but Chris Evans was in New York promoting his film Puncture, which is playing at the Tribeca Film Festival. Marvel is very cheap, so doing the scene at a time when they don’t have to pay to get Evans to New York might have appealed to them. And the lack of Joss Whedon is meaningless; this was second unit type stuff, so it would have been unlikely he’d have been on set.

Either way, take this in: they’re shooting The Avengers right now. That’s sort of hard to believe.

 

[Kabukiman]

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Not my words, from some movie website :

You posted that just for me, didn't you?

 

[jye4ever]

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You posted that just for me, didn't you?

No, not really......

But....yeah...sure...I did

 

[Kabukiman]

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No, not really......

Well I'm still gonna hassle you about it anyway. "some movie website" is not a proper source citation.

 

[IrishJedi]

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It's BadAssDigest:

https://www.badassdigest.com/

Direct link to story: https://www.badassdigest.com/2011/04/25/captain-america-and-nick-fury-walk-into-times-square

 

[jye4ever]

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Well I'm still gonna hassle you about it anyway. "some movie website" is not a proper source citation.

Bad Ass Digest like IJ just posted

 

[IrishJedi]

I've said this to people personally for a while, but I want it on the record here: Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) is going to steal this film. And it doesn't matter how much screen time he has or doesn't have.