Yep, difficult to believe as it may be, cameras have finally begun rolling on one of the most long-awaited projects in comic-book movie history. Joss Whedon recently announced that filming had begun in a typically tongue-in-cheek statement released on his website.
“Tomorrow [Monday 25th] we start shooting,” began Whedon. “(I THINK I'm legally permitted to say that). Day one. That's right. We'll be shooting the pivotal death/betrayal/product placement/setting up the sequel/coming out scene, at the following address…*Marvel Lawyers rush in, take Joss's keyboard, blowtorch a picture of his family like in Stormy Monday, drink his milkshake, leave the seat up, fluff his pillows, violently unfluff his pillows, leave.*”
"Went too far,” continues Whedon. “My bad. Anyhoo, it should be a fun day, followed by the eighty thousand other fun days it will take to finish this. So wish me luck. DO IT! LUCK! NOW! I'm off to finish some Buffy pages, and then figure out what the movie is about already. I'm pretty sure it's about the Justice League [*Marvel Lawyers re-enter, unspeakability occurs*] or possibly something else. I'll get it. I've been looking forward to this. For about 46 years."
And in case anyone thought Whedon was just titting about, Kevin Feige confirmed the announcement as legit in an interview with Collider. “It started filming last Monday,” he said. “Definitively last Monday in Albuquerque. Most of our movies go for about 80 to 100 days. I think The Avengers falls right in the middle of that somewhere. That is for first unit and then it could be anywhere upwards to 50 days for second unit. But we will be going through September.”
Break out the party poppers, it’s actually bloody happening! So after all the hype, will it actually be any good? Well from the early noises emerging from Marvel, we think there are reasons to be confident…
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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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