Despite writer-director Joss Whedon’s gift for florid and witty wordplay for powerful actors, ironically, the breakout star of Whedon’s Avengers was a CGI Hulk who utters exactly two words (amidst some grunting and yelling) throughout the film’s two and a half hour running time.  Positive fan reaction to the Hulk has been so strong that Marvel has announced they may repeal their “No More Hulk Movies” policy, and now, ABC is pushing to make the Hulk the star of his own TV show.

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Between such works as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse, Joss Whedon is known for featuring strong female characters in his TV shows and films.  And while The Avengers did have Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow kicking ass and helping to save the world, the film was still a festival of testosterone between Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, and pointless archer that gives Jeremy Renner something to do.  Now, Whedon says he wants to up the female hero quotient in Avengers 2.

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If the box office is any indication (and it is), a lot of you enjoyed The Avengers this weekend.  And even though the record-breaking superhero film is already 2.5 hours long, fans are already clamoring for more.  While it’s a bit early for sequel news, director Joss Whedon is promising a three-hour director’s cut of The Avengers with 30 minutes of new footage… for the film’s Blu-Ray release.

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Not that it’s any surprise, but in case you were curious, The Avengers took in nearly $20 million from midnight showings on Thursday night, entering a pantheon of memorable blockbuster films that set records for their midnight-premiere screenings: The Dark Knight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.

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The Hulk—while one of the wilder, more interesting characters in the Marvel Universe, he’s also one that has never properly translated onto film.  Sure, he’s had a soap opera-y TV show and a handful of cheesy TV movies, a flawed but deeply interesting Ang Lee film, and then a blander than bland reboot with Edward Norton, but he’s never had something truly great.  Now, thanks to the overwhelmingly popular reaction to the character in The Avengers, we may be getting a third cinematic attempt at a solo Hulk film.

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We’re just under two weeks until the official release of The Avengers, one of the most anticipated films of 2012.  The Joss Whedon-directed superhero film features such Marvel hotshots as Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, the Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye teaming up to defend Earth from the threat posed by Thor’s villainous brother, Loki.  And in a new clip from the film, you can see how Black Widow draws a cranky Bruce Banner/Hulk into the Avengers.

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It’s safe to say, we’re all a little curious to see how Avengers is going to come together. We all know that having too much in one movie can hurt it, rather than help. Screenwriter Zak Penn has started talking about working on the project, which will not come out until 2012. Apparently the film is giving Penn a hard time. At the moment he is trying to figure out how to place stories from Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor into the new Avengers film without it being forced or cluttered. Penn also wanted to include the characters from The Fantastic Four but Fox turned that idea down (thank god!).

Penn is now working with writers, making sure they are all up to date with all the individual characters they will be including in the movie. They are doing Captain America and Thor first, and then Avengers is coming out. In an interview with SciFiWire Penn talked about this task:

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Here’s a dose of what I like to call “news we can use.” Last week we posted a story that featured Marvel Studios producer Kevin Feige in which he gave a breakdown of what we can expect from the upcoming Marvel slate. Unfortunately for we got an e-mail from the studios asking us to pull the story, and it was taken down. But no worries because now we’ve got something even better to quench your comic thirst! This weekend the Produced by Conference was held in Culver City, California and Feige along with other Marvel executives took part in an open panel discussion where they gave some updates on their latest superhero films.

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Sometimes I have to pinch myself when it comes to all the live action films that Marvel will be producing in the next three years. They’re shoveling out Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America, which will all lead up to the Avengers movie in 2012. In this case it seems like a lot to take in and seeing is believing, so over at AICN they’ve published some photos that will give us our first glimpse of the film’s image campaign.

Check out the gallery after the jump.

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