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The Avengers premier at Tribeca Film Festival, which was sponsored by Bombay Sapphire as part of their promotion of the Imagination Series Filmmakers Competition.
How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill in The Avengers.
The Avengers
Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders
Director: Joss Whedon
In the hands of your average director, The Avengers could have been ridiculous. There are long stretches of conversation where superheroes just talk to each other in small spaces, loads of complicated special effects, and the film is a whopping 2 hours and 22 minutes. On top of that, The Avengers is charged with bringing together three heroes from their respective blockbusters, and giving them some sort of likable chemistry together with new characters we don’t know all that much about.
As helmed by Joss Whedon though, The Avengers is a superhero-sized adventure, among the top ten comic book movies of all time, and proof that Whedon needs to be handed a lot more projects like this one.
Written by Whedon and X2 writer Zak Penn, the movie starts with Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, breaking into a top secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base where he steals the Tesseract, an all-powerful energy source that the demi god plans to use to enslave the planet. Maniacal laugh.
Photos from The Avengers starring Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, and Cobie Smulders
Good points, whisbrella, Ms Marvel could have been interesting, but it’s true that Black Widow fits the mood a lot better. Ms Marvel, and Wasp for that matter, might be a tad ridiculous when they seem to be going for fairly explainable/”realistic” characters otherwise.
One more thing on The Avengers. Aside from bringing at least one female into this version of the team, can anyone explain to me why we ended up with Black Widow in this film? She has a few good scenes, but she seems utterly out of her depth with all these god-like heroes.
That said, to fill the womanly void in the team, I can’t imagine who else you could cast in the film—it’s not like The Avengers has ever had that many female members, aside from maybe the Invisible Woman.
Anyone have any wishes for who they could have used instead? Storm would have been kind of kick-ass, but I guess they may have been avoiding the X-Men.
It has to be said: I loved The Avengers. It’s a very funny, action adventure, and Joss Whedon amply proves what he can do with great characters and a decent story.
That’s all I’m going to say for now since I don’t want to incur Marvel’s wrath, but I’m planning on a video review of this one on top of the usual review.
Stay tuned for interviews the week of release as well.
Marvel president Kevin Feige addressed the scene in question.
Here’s Feige’s quote thanks to Blogomatic 3000 (via Bleeding Cool) :
I will tell you this: It was not a scene. It was not a scene. There’s little things. It’s been blown out of proportion. Which is fun, I like that things are blown out of proportion. Sometimes they’re true sometimes they’re not.
He continued:
There is the potential that there will be one little change. People might not even notice it. It’s not a big thing.
/Film argues that he may be lying due to the fact that the film is completely locked, has already premiered, and is set to open over seas next week. They’re holding onto the notion that it could come at the end of the credits or elsewhere.
For anyone else who has seen the film, I can guarantee we’re all thinking the same thing about what this extra scene would represent. Unless they’re going in a very different direction, I would hope the “scene” will provide a feeling of closure for one aspect of the story.
