Now this is interesting! Up until very recently, The Avengers’ Big Bad has been kept firmly under wraps, but now we have our first clue as to what our heroes will be facing off against. Because having taken on villain duties as Chris Hemsworth’s villainous half-brother Loki in Thor, Tom Hiddleston has let slip that he will be repeating the trick in The Avengers.
“I think (Loki’s inclusion) was a plan from the get-go, but it wasn’t really dead-set until near the end of Thor,” Hiddleston tells Vulture. “What was wonderful is that about four days after I wrapped on Thor, I went out for a cup of tea with Joss Whedon. We sat down at two o’clock in the afternoon, and we were still sitting there at six o’clock. He said, ‘Listen, you’ve lived with this guy for six months. I want you to spill the beans and tell me all of his dark secrets. Who is this guy? Why is he who he is?’”
Well apparently, he’s the sort of villain that won’t take no for an answer, and no numerical disadvantage is about to change that. “I’m really so flattered that Marvel and Joss think I can take them all on,” continues Hiddlestone. “In Avengers, it’s going to be me versus seven of them, and I say ‘Good luck to them,’ frankly.”
An intriguing announcement then, and one that certainly chimes with Marvel’s policy of inter-film continuity. However, surely he won’t be taking on the Avengers alone? Especially if we’ve understood Thor’s post-credits scene correctly…
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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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