Five New Hi-Res Photos From The Avengers; Plus Chris Evans Discusses His First Day On Set
The most recent issue of Empire reveals several images of the Avengers team on its varied covers. Though the covers are mostly made up of individual character posters and banner posters that were released last year, the magazine does include some quotes from Evans (via ScreenRant), who describes what it was like for him to arrive on The Avengers set for the very first time and interact with other superheroes after going solo in last summer's Captain America: The First Avenger.
The first time I came on set and saw other people in costume, it was a night-time scene in the woods and it involved myself, Chris Hemsworth and Downey Jr. I had just seen Thor maybe two nights before, so I got on set and I saw Hemsworth in the cape and immediately thought, "God, there’s Thor, I’m looking at Thor," and then I saw Downey Jr. in the suit.
Evans compared the experience of working on The Avengers with being a "little kid."
It [was] amazing. The kid in me would say, "I didn’t get to act with Robert Downey Jr., I got to act with Iron Man." I’d never had that before, where I had seen actors in a film that I was not a part of and then come to work and help them to extend that character’s life. It’s like being a little kid.
In keeping with the movie's promotion the past few months, there are also some new photos from The Avengers, released by Marvel, and this time Cap shows up only once and Thor doesn't show up at all. Instead, the photos mostly concentrate on Samuel L. Jackson as S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury, though Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) also make appearances.
The first time I came on set and saw other people in costume, it was a night-time scene in the woods and it involved myself, Chris Hemsworth and Downey Jr. I had just seen Thor maybe two nights before, so I got on set and I saw Hemsworth in the cape and immediately thought, "God, there’s Thor, I’m looking at Thor," and then I saw Downey Jr. in the suit.
Evans compared the experience of working on The Avengers with being a "little kid."
It [was] amazing. The kid in me would say, "I didn’t get to act with Robert Downey Jr., I got to act with Iron Man." I’d never had that before, where I had seen actors in a film that I was not a part of and then come to work and help them to extend that character’s life. It’s like being a little kid.
In keeping with the movie's promotion the past few months, there are also some new photos from The Avengers, released by Marvel, and this time Cap shows up only once and Thor doesn't show up at all. Instead, the photos mostly concentrate on Samuel L. Jackson as S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury, though Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) also make appearances.
The Avengers: New Images Cover Empire; Marvel President Kevin Feige Sets the Record Straight About Villains
Popular British movie magazine Empire may have chosen The Amazing Spider-Man to kick off another year of super-movies in its "Amazing 2012 Preview," but it's The Avengers who dominate the latest issue — which is kind of funny because Spider-Man is an Avenger in Marvel comic book continuity — with four different heroes featured on five different covers, including two new images of Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow and Chris Evans as Captain America.
The mag's not even on the stands yet, but Collider somehow managed to get a sneak peek at the cover story, which includes comments from Marvel President of Production Kevin Feige, aka the "Mastermind of the Marvel Cinematic Universe," who finally sets the record straight about the rumor that the Skrulls will be teaming up with Loki (Tom Hiddleston) against the Marvel heroes and that the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) may even be joining the fray.
There has been speculation that the shapeshifting alien Skrulls would be the threat that finally forces S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to bring the Avengers together since before the movie went into production, but the idea really started to catch on when "spy" photos from the set revealed motion-capture suit-wearing stuntmen wielding bizarre-looking weaponry. While Feige wouldn't go so far as to say who or what would be operating those vehicles and weapons, he did reveal that they are not Skrulls.
Who said they were aliens? ... It’s not Skrulls, I’ve been clear about that. Beyond that, we want to hide it. The identity of the alien race is not impactful. It exists in the comic books, but we’re not setting up the Kree-Skrull war or anything like that.
Another rumor that has been popular in the fan community is that the two main villains from the last two Marvel movies will do a good ol' fashioned "supervillain team-up" on the heroes in The Avengers. The theory goes that, since Loki was able to survive his journey into the void at the end of Thor, perhaps the Red Skull was able to survive his own trip into oblivion at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger, and that the two have now joined forces. Sorry, fanboys, wrong again. While Feige conceded that the Red Skull might still be alive, the red-visaged Nazi won't be in The Avengers.
Was [Red] Skull vaporised at the end of [Captain America: The First Avenger], or thrust into another realm? That remains to be seen. It would be fun to see Skull in future, but he’s not in this one.
We may not know who the high-tech villains are, but at least we know who they are not. Plus, we have some cool new images to tide us over until the next trailer comes out.
The mag's not even on the stands yet, but Collider somehow managed to get a sneak peek at the cover story, which includes comments from Marvel President of Production Kevin Feige, aka the "Mastermind of the Marvel Cinematic Universe," who finally sets the record straight about the rumor that the Skrulls will be teaming up with Loki (Tom Hiddleston) against the Marvel heroes and that the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) may even be joining the fray.
There has been speculation that the shapeshifting alien Skrulls would be the threat that finally forces S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to bring the Avengers together since before the movie went into production, but the idea really started to catch on when "spy" photos from the set revealed motion-capture suit-wearing stuntmen wielding bizarre-looking weaponry. While Feige wouldn't go so far as to say who or what would be operating those vehicles and weapons, he did reveal that they are not Skrulls.
Who said they were aliens? ... It’s not Skrulls, I’ve been clear about that. Beyond that, we want to hide it. The identity of the alien race is not impactful. It exists in the comic books, but we’re not setting up the Kree-Skrull war or anything like that.
Another rumor that has been popular in the fan community is that the two main villains from the last two Marvel movies will do a good ol' fashioned "supervillain team-up" on the heroes in The Avengers. The theory goes that, since Loki was able to survive his journey into the void at the end of Thor, perhaps the Red Skull was able to survive his own trip into oblivion at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger, and that the two have now joined forces. Sorry, fanboys, wrong again. While Feige conceded that the Red Skull might still be alive, the red-visaged Nazi won't be in The Avengers.
Was [Red] Skull vaporised at the end of [Captain America: The First Avenger], or thrust into another realm? That remains to be seen. It would be fun to see Skull in future, but he’s not in this one.
We may not know who the high-tech villains are, but at least we know who they are not. Plus, we have some cool new images to tide us over until the next trailer comes out.
New Avengers Photo Reveals Chris Evans as Captain America
While online fans are no doubt devouring the new photos that arrived online for July's highly-anticipated sequel The Dark Knight Rises, EW has revealed new photo from another of 2012's most-anticipated movies: The Avengers.
Earlier this month, a new photo of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Captain America (Chris Evans) was released, depicting the two heroes fighting side-by-side against an unknown assailant on a half-destroyed New York street. The latest photo is taken from that same scene, but shows Cap alone, which, according to writer-director Joss Whedon, is fitting since the movie relies heavily on Cap's "perspective."
So much of [The Avengers] story takes place from Steve Rogers’ perspective, since he’s the guy who just woke up and sees this weird-ass world. Everyone else has been living in it. He’s the guy that feels that sense of loss.
[Captain America] is kind of the ultimate loner in that way. There is an anachronism to him, and Chris and I have always tried to, without making it goofy or too obvious, make him that same grounded ’40s Steve Rogers he was in the other movie [last year's Captain America: The First Avenger].
Cap won't be the only character to feel lonely, the director points out. "[The Avengers] is very much about people who are alone — because I’m writing it," Whedon joked. While the characters may be on their own, once S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) "assembles" Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) all onto one team, Whedon says they are finally in a world "where they fit in".
You get them in a world, the world of S.H.I.E.L.D., where they fit in. And you say upfront, these are monsters. These are freaks. These are not you and me, and what are they doing here? How are they human beings? Let’s just investigate that.
Earlier this month, a new photo of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Captain America (Chris Evans) was released, depicting the two heroes fighting side-by-side against an unknown assailant on a half-destroyed New York street. The latest photo is taken from that same scene, but shows Cap alone, which, according to writer-director Joss Whedon, is fitting since the movie relies heavily on Cap's "perspective."
So much of [The Avengers] story takes place from Steve Rogers’ perspective, since he’s the guy who just woke up and sees this weird-ass world. Everyone else has been living in it. He’s the guy that feels that sense of loss.
[Captain America] is kind of the ultimate loner in that way. There is an anachronism to him, and Chris and I have always tried to, without making it goofy or too obvious, make him that same grounded ’40s Steve Rogers he was in the other movie [last year's Captain America: The First Avenger].
Cap won't be the only character to feel lonely, the director points out. "[The Avengers] is very much about people who are alone — because I’m writing it," Whedon joked. While the characters may be on their own, once S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) "assembles" Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) all onto one team, Whedon says they are finally in a world "where they fit in".
You get them in a world, the world of S.H.I.E.L.D., where they fit in. And you say upfront, these are monsters. These are freaks. These are not you and me, and what are they doing here? How are they human beings? Let’s just investigate that.
GERMAN & RUSSIAN TRAILERS SHOW MORE FOOTAGE
After releasing the first trailer for their upcoming The Avengers in October, Marvel has yet to release another, but a German-dubbed trailer released earlier this month revealed new footage from the movie (WATCH BELOW), plus provided fans with an opportunity to see what the characters would sound like if they spoke German.
Now fans can see what it would be like if the characters spoke Russian as well. Russia's MSN (via The Playlist) has released a new version of the German trailer, now dubbed in Russian and with snippets of new footage, including the moment between Tony Stark, aka Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) where Stark mentions he "has a Hulk (Mark Ruffalo)" and is subsequently thrown out a window by the Norse god of trickery.
Now fans can see what it would be like if the characters spoke Russian as well. Russia's MSN (via The Playlist) has released a new version of the German trailer, now dubbed in Russian and with snippets of new footage, including the moment between Tony Stark, aka Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) where Stark mentions he "has a Hulk (Mark Ruffalo)" and is subsequently thrown out a window by the Norse god of trickery.
FILMING THE AVENGERS
CAPTAIN AMERICA & THOR GETTING READY FOR ACTION
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THOR FIGHT SCENE
CAPTAIN AMERICA JUMPING CARS
THE AVENGERS BATTLE SCENE
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THOR FIGHT SCENE
CAPTAIN AMERICA JUMPING CARS
THE AVENGERS BATTLE SCENE
Watch in HD the Final Scene from Captain America: The First Avenger AND Preview Teaser for The Avengers
No doubt in an effort to bolster Captain America: The First Avenger's (CATFA) second weekend in theaters — and to counter all of those unscrupulous people who have flooded the internet with their pirated camera phone videos of the awesome post-credits teaser for Marvel's next big superhero movie, The Avengers, which is currently in production — Marvel and distributor Paramount have released, via Yahoo!, the final scene from CATFA. (Don't worry, it won't spoil the ending of the real story in CATFA — Cap's battle to stop the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) from destroying the Eastern seaboard.)
The scene, set in Times Square, shows Steve Rogers, aka Captain America (Chris Evans), waking up in his future, our present, and meeting S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) for the first time. Additionally, a short preview of the aforementioned Avengers teaser is included, offering those of you have not yet seen CATFA a first look at Cap's new costume, Thor's (Chris Hemsworth) new costume and Black Widow's (Scarlett Johansson) new...hairstyle.
Did you catch the clever reference to Iron Man in the Avengers preview? Sure, Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) is present, but there's no armor in sight. However, if you look closely, you'll notice Stark is wearing a Black Sabbath t-shirt. Black Sabbath is the heavy metal band that wrote the 1970 song "Iron Man" that director Jon Favreau used to promote the first Iron Man movie (and in the closing credits).
The Avengers was written and is being directed by Joss Whedon, creator of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse. The plot of the movie remains a closely guarded secret, but we know from the post-credits scene in Thor that it will involve the cosmic cube (also seen in CATFA) and Thor's malevolent brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Beyond that, there are rumors that Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) will be one of the villains (since he was instrumental in the team forming in the Marvel comic books) or that it will be the alien supervillain Thanos or even an invading army of alien shapeshifters called Skrulls. The cast includes Clark Gregg as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson, Cobie Smulders S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill and Stellan Skarsgård as Dr. Erik Selvig.
Tom "Loki" Hiddleston Briefly Discusses the 'Assembled' Avengers Cast
Writer-director Joss Whedon's The Avengers production has been relatively safe from the prying eyes — and camera lenses — of the kinds of scoopers, amateur photographers, and paparazzi that swarmed the L.A. and N.Y.C. sets of The Amazing Spider-Man due to it having set up shop in remote Albuquerque, N.M., much to the chagrin of the countless comic book movie fans who are just dying for some news about Marvel's super-team movie. Thankfully, several of the stars of the movie were given leave from the production to attend recent events in L.A., which allowed MTV to pick their brains about The Avengers, giving us our first little glimpses into what it must be like to work on such an ambitious project.
Actor Chris Evans, who reprises the role of Steve Rogers from his upcoming movie, Captain America: The First Avenger, in The Avengers, said at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards that he "geeked out a bit" from being on a set with other superheroes like Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man and Chris Hemsworth as Thor, versus on The First Avenger set where he was the only superhero. Now, another cast member has opened up about what it's like to be a part of such a star-studded movie, though this actor plays a far less noble character. Tom Hiddleston, who reprises the role of Loki from Thor in The Avengers, told MTV at the premiere of Super 8 that he has "seen everybody in costume" and that it is "everything everyone has been imagining except it's better."
"It's funny how everybody looks so entirely iconic in their own individual way, but then together there's a whole different level of iconography. It really is happening. It's very exciting."
Hiddleston went on to say that he has "not been excluded from the group party" that Evans alluded to in his interview, despite the fact that he is playing one of the villains, if not the villain, in a movie that contains so many heroes.
"I'm in the fold. I'm in the fold of the family."
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The Avengers Bits: Rumored Villains, Possible Shooting Location, and More from Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner
With so many comic book movies opening this year — Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men: First Class, Captain America: The First Avenger — it's easy to forget about The Avengers opening next year and bringing all of Marvel's characters together in one movie. Audiences are already familiar with Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, and will have a chance to see Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Chris Evans as Captain America before The Avengers is released.
But what about Jeremy Renner? Will he show up in Thor as Hawkeye as has been rumored? The Hurt Locker actor told MTV before the Oscars that he "might" have a cameo.
"Go see it. Check it out," said Renner, who admitted that he hasn't seen his Hawkeye costume yet, so, if he does show up in Thor, it may be in plainclothes.
Another newcomer is Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner, a.k.a. the Hulk. Ruffalo is the third actor to play the character over as many movies, but, as the actor pointed out last September, will be the first to also portray the Hulk in motion-capture. Ruffalo described the process to The Telegraph after apparently shooting some tests as the Hulk.
There’s this algorithm that digitally puts 2,000lbs of muscle onto my body. It’s weird. I wear this skinny little suit with reflective balls all over it. When we shot the stuff, I was actually standing in a warehouse with a couple of cardboard boxes and some foam mats. But when I looked at the monitor there I was as the Hulk in this landscape with cars and boulders and hills.
Ruffalo told MTV that his time playing the Hulk and Banner is "about equal" with the human side getting a new "slant."
There's some great Bruce Banner stuff [in Avengers], kind of a slant on him that we haven't seen before. He's introduced in a really great way.
Then there are the villains of the movie, which have yet to be revealed. The shape-shifting alien race known as the Skrulls were rumored to be in the movie at the end of last year before being debunked. Speaking with their sources, Latino Review reports that they have discovered who the "bad guys" are that writer/director Joss Whedon has included in the movie.
The main villain for The Avengers is none other than Thor's adoptive brother and archenemy LOKI!
But that's not all, Loki needs some serious muscle to go up against The Avengers and he does this by using the cosmic cube seen in Captain America: The First Avenger and also seen in the screen capture I took of the Thor Comic-Con trailer. Loki uses the cube to get a hold of the Aliens (aka The Skrulls) to invade Earth and fight The Avengers. Skrulls are green-skinned reptilian humanoids with large pointed ears, red or green eyes, and corrugated chins.
While this is unconfirmed, AICN somewhat confirmed the Latino Review report by speaking to their sources, who revealed that Marvel has already shot a "special teaser trailer" for The Avengers which includes Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Of course, Loki's inclusion is not exactly a secret, since Thor's brother and lifelong nemesis was the villain that first brought the team together for the 1963 debut issue of The Avengers comic book. What Whedon has done, if the rumors turn out to be true, is to add the Skrulls and the Cosmic Cube as well.
While the villain rumors may be somewhat shocking to some, the jaw-dropping revelations are far from over. Another character from Thor will appear in The Avengers, 411Mania reports. Speaking to Swedish newspaper Exressen, Stellan Skarsgård revealed that he will reprise his role as the scientist "Doctor Selvig" (the character's name is actually Professor Andrews) from Thor for The Avengers. Minds blown? We thought so. But there's more.
With shooting on The Avengers to start this spring in New Mexico and New York, a new city has been mentioned as a possible exotic, third location: Cleveland. The city isn't confirmed just yet, but landing the production could mean good things for the city's struggling tourist industry.
The Avengers Headed to Pennsylvania
When an amateur photographer in Pennsylvania posted photos of military vehicles emblazoned with the S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division) logo sitting in a parking lot on his Facebook account, many decried the photos as fakes, citing an official Marvel Studios press release for The Avengers — the only Marvel Comics adaptation that Marvel Studios currently has in production — which listed filming locations in New Mexico, Ohio and New York, but not Pennsylvania.
We speculated that the trucks might have been been in Pennsylvania in anticipation of the arrival of a second unit, and now it appears our hunch was correct. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a "secondary" unit of The Avengers production will be filming "about an hour outside of Pittsburgh." No specific dates were given, but the Post-Gazette reported that the production will be filming "at the same time" as Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, which is using Pittsburgh as a double for Gotham City during filming which is slated to last from July 28th to Aug. 21st. Unfortunately for die-hard comic book fans who are already envisioning a meeting of Batman and the Avengers, the Pennsylvania shoot for The Avengers will be "without cast members."
Stan Lee Updates Fans About His Upcoming Marvel Movie Cameos
There are few people alive today who have had as big of an impact on popular culture as Stan Lee. The writer, editor, publisher, and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics created or co-created some of the most enduring comic book characters — and biggest box office draws — in history, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Daredevil, Dr. Strange, the Avengers, and the X-Men.
Still going strong at the stately age of 88, Lee continues to create new comic book characters, when he's not hosting his own superhero-themed TV shows (Who Wants to Be a Superhero?, Stan Lee's Superhumans) or cameoing in movies based on Marvel Comics characters. Lee has appeared in Daredevil; both Fantastic Four, Hulk, and Iron Man movies; two of the original trilogy of X-Men movies; and all three of the Spider-Man movies. Most recently, Lee had a hilarious cameo in Thor. A prolific Tweeter and the self-declared "Generalissimo" of a veritable army of fans from around the world, Lee recently used his Twitter account to reveal that he will not be appearing in X-Men: First Class, but he will be appearing in two other upcoming Marvel movies, with plans to appear in Marvel's most ambitious movie to date.
Here is the series of Tweets that Stan "The Man" sent out yesterday regarding his cameos:
Warriors mine, grieve thee not that I have no cameo in X-Men 1st Class. ‘Tis just that the movie was filmed too far away for me to attend
But know ye this, I have already completed my roles in Captain America and the new Spider-Man, so all is well in Cameo Land.
Next up— The Avengers. Unless they shoot it on the Moon nothing shall keep thy leader from making his awesome presence known! Excelsior!
If you know you've seen Stan in one or more Marvel movies, but you just can't place the scene, check out this compilation of some of his best ones (up to his appearance in Iron Man 2).
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