Over the past week, we’ve been watching the casting notes for the Marvel feature, The First Avenger: Captain America like a hawk. While Steve Rogers has been our main concern, the studio has been steadily working on the screenplay for The Avengers and according to a recent tweet from Joe Quesada (Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief), the first draft has been completed.
In 2009 we didn’t get our Marvel blockbuster fix, instead we got more Transformers and more Potter, but 2010 will be a different story. Iron Man is back and he’s going to kick off an awesome line up of Marvel films that will cover the next two years. Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige recently spoke to SFX Magazine about the upcoming film slate including the superhero team up movie, The Avengers.
I was somewhat happy after watching the Iron Man 2 behind the scenes footage we posted, but unfortunately I’ve been knocked down a peg. Over at MTV Jon Favreau finally responded to the question we’ve all been dying to hear the answer to. Will he or won’t he direct The Avengers movie? According to him, we’re going to have to go with a “no” on that one.
With someone as talented and respected as Edward Norton, I feel guilty that his name only brings one thing to mind, the Hulk. Ever since his appearance in last year’s The Incredible Hulk, the actor has been associated with the group of Marvel superheros known as The Avengers. This includes Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America. With the other three heroes all set to appear in the team up movie, we have to know if Hulk is down for the cause.
The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier has voiced an epic idea about how he thinks the Marvel Avengers movie can rule the summer. The director recently spoke to Hero Complex while on the set of his upcoming film Clash of the Titans and said, “”I would love to do the Avengers film. I’d love to work with Marvel again. I loved working with them.” His excitement doesn’t stop there. Leterrier has a pitch that could meld Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor together in more ways than one.
Finally, someone is acknowledging the elephant in the room regarding the upcoming Marvel movie, The Avengers. Will Edward Norton reprise the role of Bruce Banner/The Hulk in the film? Over at IESB, they’ve got the latest straight from the horses mouth. Following this year’s Comic Con there’s been nothing but Marvel talk regarding Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, and of course The Avengers movie. Within all of this promotion and speculation, no one’s brought up the major missing link on the upcoming roster, The Hulk.
It seems like everybody is hopping on the train of 3-D rendering. MTV recently caught up with Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau and the topic of 3-D filmmaking came into play. As we all know both Peter Jackson and James Cameron have embraced this trend whole heartily as the wave of the future, but how does Mr. Favreau feel about it?
Find out after the jump.
If there’s one good thing that should come out of Comic-Con it’s comic based movie news! Over at /Film, they’ve put together the latest speculation and theories to come out of this year’s event. At the top of the list we have The Avengers movie! The film will be an unprecedented superhero team up movie, that will include Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, War Machine, Nick Fury and possibly Black Widow.
At the Iron Man 2 Comic-Con panel, a fan asked director, Jon Favreau about the possibility of him directing the upcoming Avengers movie. He didn’t give enough information to hint towards the possibility, but he did mention that they are fostering the idea, so we will see how that unfolds.
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