THE AVENGERS (2012) Pre-Release.

Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo update the Avengers:

http://www.reelzchannel.com/movie-news/10636/chris-evans-and-mark-ruffalo-update-the-avengers/

Even though next year will be crammed with alot of superhero movies, namely The Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-man, and Man of Steel, the movie that I'll be anticipating the most is the Avengers. I hope Whedon will be able to pull this off because this is such a monumental task, handling all the superheroes in one film while still pay attention to the secondary characters and story/plot.

Anger Management, I cannot wait to see the...Avengers Assemble!  Ghost Rider Spirit Of Vengeance, and Dredd also arrive in...2012, for a total of...6 comic book films!

So a stuntman playing a character shot with an arrow by Hawkeye got scalped when the stunt went wrong: http://www.tmz.com/2011/06/27/avengers-stuntman-scalped-during-30-foot-fall/ 

Pic is pretty graphic.

That qualifies as a scalping now?  Nice injury, but a scalping?  C'mon.

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Anger Management, I cannot wait to see the...Avengers Assemble!  Ghost Rider Spirit Of Vengeance, and Dredd also arrive in...2012, for a total of...6 comic book films!

Dredd and GR are nice (okay maybe not GR), but when you consider the fact that we'll have movies based on the three biggest names in the comic world--Superman, Batman, and Spider-man--and throw in the Avengers with the three heavyweights of Iron Man, Thor, and Capt. America, all coming in 2012, it's going to be incredible. Both Dredd and GR will likely be lost in this shuffle.
 

Anger Management, To me especially if...The Wolverine is a...2012 film, here is my list, in order of interest!...

1) The Avengers

2) The Wolverine

3) Dredd

4) Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance 3D

5) The Amazing Spider-Man

6) The Dark Knight Rises

7) The Man Of Steel

Also...John Carter, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs arrives in 2012, and while it is not a comic, it fits in the same pulpy vibe as...Conan, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, and I would put them in a similar Superhero Genre, as they are likely some of the predecessors to Superheroes.  Also, I am reading...John Carter Of Mars, The Marvel Comic, 28 issues reprinted in a TPB, and it is...Awesome!

Caught it tonight and it looked fantastic.

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So a stuntman playing a character shot with an arrow by Hawkeye got scalped when the stunt went wrong: http://www.tmz.com/2011/06/27/avengers-stuntman-scalped-during-30-foot-fall/ 

 

Pic is pretty graphic.

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Originally Posted by Tomas Mejor 

That qualifies as a scalping now?  Nice injury, but a scalping?  C'mon.

This is a scalping....

I think this is a Comicon display of Captain America's "locker" in THE AVENGERS.

His 21st century costume looks good.

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/5966/comiccon201120110721156.jpg

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/3514/comiccon201120110721106.jpg

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/6625/comiccon201120110721164.jpg

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/6763/comiccon201120110721129.jpg

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Originally Posted by wadew1 

I think this is a Comicon display of Captain America's "locker" in THE AVENGERS.

His 21st century costume looks good.

 

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/5966/comiccon201120110721156.jpg

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/3514/comiccon201120110721106.jpg

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/6625/comiccon201120110721164.jpg

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/6763/comiccon201120110721129.jpg

Agreed.  Looks great.  Thanks for posting this.
 

checkin out Cap tonight, so is the teaser attached to it?

that costume looks top notch!

and duke, totally forgot about Dredd, whats the latest?

Make sure you FOCUS during the Avengers teaser! There are a ton of quick cuts.

Andres if you can't see the shots check here:

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/167949-sdcc-comic-con-2011-gallery-update

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As a side note I am among the ones who wants the rights (for X-Men etc) back to Marvel.

Nope. I wish X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spidey would all revert back to Marvel. I think only FF has a chance of that happening, though. The other two properties represent too much potential BO revenue for Fox and Sony to release.

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Nope. I wish X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spidey would all revert back to Marvel. I think only FF has a chance of that happening, though. The other two properties represent too much potential BO revenue for Fox and Sony to release.

 

Don't leave out Dardevil! The right people could make a hell of a film.

What's got me excited about this movie is how it's recreating the feeling of the first issue of the original series. There's a feeling that this has never been done before, and a specialness to the fact that these six individuals are the majority of the super powered beings on Earth. That feeling can't be recreated in the comics today, with thousands of superheroes flying across the skies.

Not much to the teaser except the excitement of seeing them all together, and Thor's new costume. Only thing lacking was the Ruffalo and his green counterpart.

I'm just relieved that ILM is handling the effects for THE AVENGERS. The quinjet, the helicarrier, the Hulk...these things will probably look good!

I thought the effects were  lacking in Thor and Cap. Incredible Hulk too.

I caught a couple of shots of Ruffalo, but he wasn't hulking out. And Thor looked kind of weird. Like they were going for the Ultimates look but then decided to pin a little cape (it isn't bright red and huge anymore) to his back.

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Originally Posted by wadew1 

And Thor looked kind of weird. Like they were going for the Ultimates look but then decided to pin a little cape (it isn't bright red and huge anymore) to his back.

I thought I was the only one who thought that. I think I prefer his previous duds, but time will tell.

I know a few copies have popped up but my favourite one has a guy cry out "Dude! Where's the HULK!?" then his buddy replies "Man, the Hulk ain't shit!"

A fine teaser, far more exciting than Web-head and Bats. I'm waiting for an official still from the movie.

Has everyone seen these babies? WANT!

Yeah that's the helicarrier in Hawkeye's poster.

I didn't think much of the final shot of the teaser, but then people started to say that Thor was in the forest and there were broken trees around him.

HULK FIGHT

In fairness, it's still early days, there probably wasn't much else to show. But I'm the kind of geek where a glimpse of a new Cap uniform makes me giddy.

I'm also drunk.

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Originally Posted by wadew1 

I'm just relieved that ILM is handling the effects for THE AVENGERS. The quinjet, the helicarrier, the Hulk...these things will probably look good!

I thought the effects were  lacking in Thor and Cap. Incredible Hulk too.

 

I caught a couple of shots of Ruffalo, but he wasn't hulking out. And Thor looked kind of weird. Like they were going for the Ultimates look but then decided to pin a little cape (it isn't bright red and huge anymore) to his back.

I agree, having like 3 or so effects houses on Thor and Cap. left many of the effects feeling uneven.  Don't get me started on First Class.   As for the Incredible Hulk, I felt the effects were just fine. Rhythm and Hues did a good job for being such a small company.  

Word is, is that Marvel is pretty difficult to work with... so them teaming up with ILM again after Iron Man 2 is a blessing.  

I hope Red Skull makes some sort of appearance or at least a hint of him shows up for a possible Avengers 2

I say leave Red Skull alone and save him for the next Cap movie. If they were following the Brubaker storyline somewhat as inspiration, his essence could be trapped in the cube which would allow for him to resurge in the present day.

Plus it's sounding like there's gonna be plently of villains in Aavengers. If Hulk opens the movie, then there's still Loki, the Skrulls, AND Thanos. Too much for one movie already I think, but of course we have no idea what size of roles these could be. Maybe Thanos is just a cameo.

So what are the personal connections so far to create dramatic tension?

Nick Fury knew Tony Stark's father and founded S.H.I.E.L.D. with him.

Captain America knew Tony Stark's father.

Tony and Natasha met in Iron Man 2 and there's most certainly an attraction there (will Pepper, or any of the auxiliary characters, be mentioned in The Avengers?).

Natasha is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and would follow Fury's lead without coercion.

Natasha was (presumably) raised in the USSR and, although having defected, could be suspect to Captain America, even though they would have been allies in WWII.

However, being a fellow soldier, Cap will probably respect her, and she may remind him of someone...

Most certainly the entire male cast will hit on Natasha.

Banner was being manipulated into creating a new super soldier serum, is a mutated super soldier, fought a mutated super soldier

Both Banner and Stark are super-brains.

Hawkeye is, presumably, a more covert-ops sniper type, perhaps putting him at odds with Captain America's more old fashioned idea of civilized warfare.

Captain America is a rah-rah soldier type, already calling Nick Fury sir, vs. Tony Stark's privatization of peace (also, Steve is a working class kid from Brooklyn whereas Tony was a trust fund baby)

Thor is a warrior and would respect the soldier types, and would probably challenge Hulk to see who's stronger.

Thor, Tony, and Banner (if the first movie and comics are taken into account) all have daddy issues.

Lots of dramatic tension here, many diametrically opposed personalities. I doubt all of this will be taken into account, or there won't be enough time, but I hope some of it shows up.

Gwenyth Paltrow said she wouldn't be in Avengers, but some claim she's been spotted on the set. Can't imagine there's a whole lot for Pepper Potts to do.

Maybe sleep with Hawkeye? ARTIFICIAL TENSION!

It's not so much that Hawkeye is a sniper, and Bucky was too, as he (has the potential to be) a wetworks agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and that might make Cap uneasy.

Bear in mind I'm projecting The Ultimates portrayal of Hawkeye and Ed Brubaker's portrayal of a Bucky that did the dirty jobs and kept that knowledge from Cap. That might not make it into the movie. I just figure in a movie with a robot man, a super soldier, a god and a monster, the human characters (Black Widow and Hawkeye) will serve more as scouts and infiltrators.

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Originally Posted by wadew1 

 And Thor looked kind of weird. Like they were going for the Ultimates look but then decided to pin a little cape (it isn't bright red and huge anymore) to his back.

In the final shot in the teaser of him throwing the hammer he has the full cape.  The impression I get is that when he's hanging around in the Helicarrier and/or Triskelion, the cape and scalemail magically retract, and when he's in battle they're there.

Captain America's definitely a virgin.

I think by never making Steve and Peggy's relationship sexual, they might've been trying to make a later relationship between Steve and Sharon Carter (Peggy's sister/niece/probably granddaughter by now) less creepy.

TheCatfishCommander, All other films, will be filled with...DREDD, the weekend of September 21st as, the Judge...Lays down the law on his box office competition!

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Maybe Black Widow's secret mission will be to deflower Steve.

Oh, HOT.  Damn, now I want to see that.  Any Loki-McGuffin Cube shenannigans are secondary in my mind.

I swear I saw another female character, not Black Widow, during the rapid-fire montage in the teaser. Someone in the Captain America post-release thread suggested she was a SHIELD agent, but she seemed to have a leg-baring costume and looked quite a bit like the Ultimates version of the Wasp.

I can't say it often enough: I'm basically OK with them appropriating the costumes and a few other bits of business (like Cap's awakening in the 20th century) from The Ultimates, but that's as far as it goes. I really, really can't stand The Ultimates.

It was Maria Hill.  She's in this poster.  No Wasp or Ant Man in Avengers.

I really want Hulk to look like that in the movie. More of a monster, less of a model.

The search for a larger version is ongoing.

keep up the search, this needs to be my wall paper.. it's perfect for dual monitors.

the larger version:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2373/assembledc.jpg

That is really a glorious thing. I don't quite get why ScarJo isn't with the other norms. 

ETA: It's weird that Iron Man, Cap and Thor have the images from their previous films in the background, but Hulk and the humans do not. I suppose having Black Widow on her own let's them balance it that way.

wadew1, Avengers Assemble...Indeed!  I...Love, the the Posterity of...Earth's Mightiest Heroes!

Actually, who's that behind Hulk?  I don't recognize him.
 

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Originally Posted by MikeI 

That is really a glorious thing. I don't quite get why ScarJo isn't with the other norms. 

 

ETA: It's weird that Iron Man, Cap and Thor have the images from their previous films in the background, but Hulk and the humans do not. I suppose having Black Widow on her own let's them balance it that way.

What I found interesting about the poster was Hopkins' presence: I would assume you don't get to just stick his mug on a poster unless you're paying him to be in your movie.

Maybe it's in their contracts that their likenesses can be used to promote The Avengers, even if they aren't in the movie.  Heck, maybe there's a flashback and he does appear, or he is in the movie.  They could have come up with a number of things they wanted to cover so they wouldn't find themselves scrambling.

Well Mickey Rourke is in the background too, and I guarantee he won't be in the movie, so you might be jumping the gun with that assumption about Hopkins.