After cropping up in cameos and post-credit teases across a glut of Marvel films, The Avengers will see Sam Jackson get some much-deserved screen time as S.H.I.E.L.D. boss Nick Fury, with the star recently referring to the films as, “my own starring vehicle for the character.”
Appearing on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC talkshow, Jackson compared his role to the glue that holds Marvel’s various properties together, as Fury’s fleeting appearances gradually lay the groundwork for Whedon’s big team-up. “Everybody loves Nick Fury,” began Jackson. “ In the next month or so, I have to do one day on Thor, and one day on Captain America, and then in April we start The Avengers, which is the big deal with everybody. Thor and Captain America are pretty much done…I am the connective tissue for them to come and join The Avengers.”
Jackson went on to reveal that he will have a new S.H.I.E.L.D. cohort for The Avengers, telling Fallon that he was set to screen-test with a number of different actresses for the role. “They have this new character who I guess is like my sidekick,” he explained. “She’s with me all the time, so, they’re auditioning girls for it now.”
That “sidekick” has been revealed to be none other than S.H.I.E.L.D. executive director Maria Hill, with the role going to How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders. And in a crowd-pleasing piece of news, Smulders has revealed that she too will be donning a catsuit.
“We start in April, which is like… tomorrow,” she told ScreenRant. “I literally leave here and I go to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to shoot some scenes in a catsuit… I’ve tried on portions of the catsuit (and) I’ve seen conceptual drawings of what they want it to be. It’s fascinating to me. I feel like wardrobe becomes very creative on these types of movies because they literally spend weeks designing just the pants or the emblem. It’s such an all-consuming process, so I’m excited to see how it all turns out.” You’re not the only one Cobie. You’re not the only one…
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Hadouken76
May 10th 2011, 9:41
No profile on Black Widow? Not surprised, the words 'surplus to requirements' spring to mind
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ChrisWootton
May 10th 2011, 11:11
Isn't Hawkeye supposed to be deaf?
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mcghater
May 10th 2011, 13:31
@chriswootton no hes not
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ChrisWootton
May 10th 2011, 13:38
Cheers mcghater. For some reason I'd convinced myself that he was... where did that come from?
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SiMan
May 10th 2011, 14:07
Hawkeye was supposed to be 'Dead' at one point, maybe that's what you were thinking. I for one think that regardless of the outcome of the Avengers movie, the idea behind setting all of these movies in the same universe and linking them together is a brilliant move and a long overdue one in Hollywood land. With the amount of dire cross-overs that have been attempted in the past (i'm look at you AvP), i'm just glad that they've started from scratch with the intention of linking them together. The only downside i see is that it would have worked a lot better as TV shows - get a lot more in that way. The Civil War storyline is prime material for a mini-series.
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Hadouken76
May 10th 2011, 14:09
Edgar Wright is suppposed to be filming Antman, I'm sure he will have a 'small' role in it somewhere. Ha! (Crickets chirp...tumbleweeds... coat collected)
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DanRose
May 10th 2011, 14:39
Taxi for Hadouken!...But no, seriously this is hopefully gonna be a massive success. I await with 'ant'-icipation....
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ChrisWootton
May 10th 2011, 14:40
Ha SiMan, that could well be it and totally agree, I'm quite looking forward to this now. Watched Iron Man the other night (thought the sequel was pretty lame) really good fun movie and off to see Thor this week!!
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trist808
May 10th 2011, 14:52
Hawkeye has died in the comics, but was brought back (like so many other Marvel heroes over the years) as another character in The New Avengers. The Ant-Man film is planned for 2014 (I think) with a view to introducing the Pyms into the Marvel-Movie-Verse ready for possibly inclusion in The Avengers 2 (which will undoubtly happen and be greenlit at 9am on May 5th 2012 - lol) Each film links/crosses over into the others (so far) so any further stand-alone films I would imagine are gonna be considered part of the canyon and would somehow be worked into future projects. I do love the idea of a Civil War mini-series, that would be fantastic, characters would be given more development time in a TV series, but the budget would be smaller although I still think they could really do it justice that way. However it's more likely that the concept of Civil War might be used as a storyline for an Avengers sequel ... giving the team some major internal conflict as Iron Man & Cap go toe to toe with each other and The Avengers fracture into two separate teams. It could still work in a smaller two hour movie, but they'd have to crop the story something fierce. And are we ready for Speedball on the big screen? Maybe his more serious/cooler alter-ego Penance would be better? lol
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robspare
May 13th 2011, 11:44
@ChrisWootton, you're right about Hawkeye's hearing impairment. Just prior to his marriage to Mockingbird, in order to escape from a villain known as Crossfire, Hawkeye had to use a sonic arrow which damaged his hearing (Hawkeye Mini Series comics published 1983). He was then using hearing aids, until the Heores Reborn event. When Franklin Richards returned the heroes to existence, he returned them as he remembered them, so Hawkeye's hearing was no longer impaired (comics published around 1986).
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robspare
May 13th 2011, 11:45
Heroes Reborn was 1996 sorry.
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