Last July
I did some digging and asked some questions and came up with the belief
that The Skrull Empire would be the bad guys in The Avengers movie. Now another website is
supposedly backing up this claim, although they add no new information
(except some likely bullshit info about a guy being cast in a minor role
in a movie that hasn’t even officially signed a director yet) and don’t
bother linking to the ten month old story.
ComicBookMovie
claims to have two sources that tell
them the Skrulls are the baddies. Peter Sciretti at Slashfilm says he’s
been told Loki is the baddie; while I suspect Loki could be in the film I
feel like making Thor’s nemesis the bad guy for The Avengers is too
limiting – Thor needs to be able to beat Loki on his own.
ComicBookMovie
also claims that actor Kevin Pennington has been cast as Noh’varr, aka
Captain Marvel, aka a Kree warrior. The Kree are the ancestral enemy of
the Skrull. I find this hard to believe on any level, just simply
because Joss Whedon hasn’t even written a script for the movie, as he’s
redoing the existing draft.
Since Joss Whedon hasn’t written the
script it’s hard to say what will be in the final movie. My sources last
year told me to expect the movie to open with The Avengers coming
together to stop a rampaging Hulk; in the comics the Hulk’s rampage was
instigated by Loki, but it could just as easily be spurred by the
Skrulls, who are shapeshifters. My sources told me to look at the first
12 issues of The Ultimates, Mark Millar’s reboot of The
Avengers in the Ultimate Universe, for a basic structure for the first
film.
But
all of this is up in the air. I think the Skrull would make a great
villain for The Avengers, bringing scope and scale and allowing each
member to have something to do in a climactic fight, as opposed to a
battle against Loki, where half the team would probably be standing
around or have been taken out of the game.
We’ll find out soon enough.
22 comments
Villian should be DC….no brainer…Marvel vs DC
I hope to god the Skrulls aren't in there. The Skrulls were wack when I was reading them at 12 and they are still wack. I am really hoping for an Avengers that is all about "HULK CONTAINMENT ISSUES." That is where the juice is. Thor vs Loki will be great for the THOR movie. Maybe Loki's parthian shot is to stir the Hulk up. I hope that the AVENGERS it is all about the ULTIMATES and I hope that they come correct with it.
Who cares?
i was kinda hoping that the villain would just be THE HULK and only THE HULK, but if they're has to be another villain, can we please have some giant robots?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIRFsx-wXis
my guess is that if the skrulls do show up in the avengers movie they'll be little more than an easter egg to set up another movie. kind of like the way Jackson's Fury pops up in IM1&2.
I suggest the Badoon. They're older than the Kree and Skrulls and would make a pretty decent entry level foe. Plus unlike the Kree and Skrulls there are male and female types which of course means more Burger King toys to hock and provide a unique marketing ability to reach across all demographics. I should be a studio exec. This stuff writes itself.
Hulk vs Avengers cannot sustain an entire movie. I do like the ide of the Avengers movie starting with the team assembling to take down Hulk, who could be under the influence of Loki (like the comics). However, Hulk needs to be folded into the team. He's ultimately a hero and he (as a property) needs to be treated as such. Loki could be behind the threat to the Avengers, which could either be a team of baddies (Leader, Abomination, etc). I actually prefer Hydra (set them up in Cap's movie) or AIM (MODOK would be awesome) as the baddies. The Skrulls can work too and lead to a Marvel mainstay of heroes fighting each other (one is a Skrull).
Marco – I realize you're joking, but both the Kree and the Skrulls have females. The Human Torch was married to a Skrull for awhile.
I think the Skrulls would make a great foe for the Avengers. As Devin points out, an alien invasion force provides adequate scope, but there are also other advantages. They could leave alien tech behind, setting up the origin for the Mandarin's rings for Iron Man 3. Also, because they're shapeshifters, they can cameo in Thor and Captain America without being distracting (for example, one of Red Skull's officers could be a Skrull in disguise who returns in The Avengers).
All I have to say is that, after THE INCREDIBLE HULK and IRON MAN 2, Marvel Studios' batting average ain't looking so good. And from where I'm sitting, it looks like the studio is resting its entire future on THE AVENGERS. Whedon gets me interested…the scope of the project gets me interested…but this movie better deliver the goods, or I'm out. If it fails, it'll be proof positive that Hollywood's blockbuster mentality is truly worthless. (I'll add THE HOBBIT to that statement–if THE HOBBIT fails to deliver, then that is just as strong a sign that the system isn't functional. I guess I'm just becoming rapidly disillusioned with the $200mil product they shove at us.)
Was it ever resolved whether or not Srkulls fall under Fox's Fantastic Four deal? If so, this speculation is moot- Fox owns movie Skrulls, therefore they won't be in any Avengers movie (just as Namor is extremely unlikely to be in Captain America)
Skrull rights are with the FF @Fox.
I've always thought the perfect villain for The Avengers film is Ultron. They've already mentioned that Hank Pym is in the film. I could go into story plot ideas on how it would work, but it could be great. Ultron, some robot soldiers, and The Vision as the enemies…enough to go around for all four heroes to fight.
Well they introduced the orgin of the Leader in the lastest hulk movie. I bet he will be involved in the Averngers movie. I think the Skrulls where more Fantasic 4 area (hence super skrull).
We will see who knows maybe a villain match up with Red Skull, The Leader, Loki and maybe others who knows.
Is it too much to ask for both? Hulk at the begining and Skrulls middle through the end?
Avengers vs Freddy vs Jason
Yeah!!!
Ultron is and has always been thought of as a sequel villain with an already established avengers.
Los Vengadores son débiles. El X-Men están mucho mejor.
I suspect Hulk in the beginning, HYDRA in the interim (with a Super-Adaptoid tossed in to give Iron Man and Thor something to struggle with), and at the end of the movie you reveal the Skrulls having been pulling the strings. Maybe drop a mention of the Kree, and set up a potential on-screen Kree/Skrull War. As for the rights to the Skrulls, if the Namor and Black Panther rights didn't go to Fox with FF, I doubt the Skrull rights would. But it's hard to say…there's so much "universal" stuff at Marvel that originated and is most strongly linked with the Fantastic Four that it's difficult to really discern what goes with the license and what doesn't. Kind of like the same argument when applied to the X-Men franchise and Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, who in the comics are more commonly affiliated with the Avengers, but originated in X-Men and are the children of Magneto.
Good point Magic Of Velcro. Although I have to disagree with you on the Incredible Hulk. Its a pretty good flick for what it is. But they need to swing for the fences on this one. If it fails then the whole machine breaks down with it.
Ultron would be good for an Avengers 2 or 3. You have to set up Pym building robots before you can make one a villain, and it would then be too Pym centric if you did it all in one movie.
Will Edward Norton be onboard for The AVENGERS as Banner/HULK?? I think including him would at least bring the age gap closer between the actors since MARVEL is aiming for SMALLVILLE type of casting.. Personally though, I'd love to see HULK simply beat the shit out of the AVENGERS and then watch the credits roll up the screen.. In the animated movie, the AVENGERS did take the ass whipping of a life time from the HULK, so let's hope the movie follows the same pattern…
With the Hobbit movies somewhat on hold, Marvel is gunning for Guillermo del Toro to direct and Neil Gaiman to write Dr. Strange.
Can a Doctor Strange-centric "Defenders" movie that fits into what Marvel is now calling the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” finally be in the works?…
SHIELD pulls together a paranormal special ops team after the Military/SHIELD/NASA made contact with a "Beyonder" SHIELD realizes it doesn't have the capabilities to ascertain if this “thing” is a threat or not. Thus sets the premise for the Defenders movie, where the use of occult, fringe science, brains, and brawn are employed to defeat a multi-dimensional and or “secret invasion” cosmic threat to save the day in such a way that Avengers cannot.
The team that SHIELD assembles to defend us from such an invader will be a group of eccentric scientist/academia types culled to form the "Defenders", the oddball counterpoint to the distinguished Avengers team. Project "Defenders" will be the “Twilight Zone” of the new Marvel movie franchises; they want it to be less of an action movie and have more of a creepy thriller type of vibe to it. The Defender operatives will consist of group leader – the brilliant Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange former neurosurgeon turned renowned occultist scholar and “meta-physicist” (character to be loosely based around Aleister Crowley/Terence McKenna eccentric by way of Robert Langdon), Namor McKenzie (Sub-Mariner, the superhuman Jacques-Yves Cousteau by way of Rudolf Steiner, believes he’s the literal Prince of Atlantis) , Dr. Robert Bruce Banner (Hulk, brilliant “omni-disciplinary” scientist, the world’s greatest expert on gamma radiation… need we say more?), Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym (Ant-Man, MIT professor renowned quantum physicist), and his partner Janet Van Dyne(Wasp, one-time student to Pym now associate, extremely bright but introverted Lady Gaga “individualist” type). Themes incorporated into Defenders movie include motifs from the bestselling magical/occult/secret society Dan Brown books, along with themes from the more recent Marvel series involving Secret [link removed] storylines (specifically the newer S.H.I.E.L.D. 2010 comic series). They'll be looking for lean lesser-known actors to play non-super hero type characters, and there are ruminations that Strange may be pushed forward to play a crucial role as catalyst to merge the magical other-dimensional realms like Asgard into the more "realistic" Iron Man universe.
Questions remain about the timeline and release of the Doctor Strange character into the big screen. Will we see Doctor Strange in a smallish part for the upcoming Avengers movie helping to usher in the “magical” component onto the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Or will Strange remain left out of the Avengers universe altogether for now, and another plot device or character be used to infuse the “magical elements” instead of him?… They are determined to bring on Dr. Strange movie post Ant-Man, the question remains will Strange remain side-lined for now? Some at Marvel are extremely hush-hush as plot points, characters as well as want-lists that are still being hashed-out for upcoming films, others think it’s good to gauge public opinion about what properties the public truly cares for and how they can be incorporated to the larger Marvel Movie-verse whilst staying true to the premise of the characters. Some of us like me see the potential and are really pushing for a Doctor Strange-centric Defenders movie but more importantly having Strange play a pivotal if not smallish role in the upcoming Avengers movie.
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