If you hate spoilers, click away now as this is a bit of a major one. Seriously, if you want to go into Joss Whedon's Avengers unspoiled, close your eyes right now. Then attempt to navigate your way off this page. We wish you good luck.
Because we love comic-books at Total Film we're eagerly anticipating the Avengers.
Not least because it's the first superhero flick to combine Marvel's biggest characters into one movie, in the grand tradition of the comic-book crossover.
And it looks like Whedon is lining up the ultimate movie crossover, throwing in a character we hadn't expected to see until a distant Avengers sequel.
According to Jenny Agutter, the first Avengers flick will feature a surprise appearance from Marvel's greatest superhero. That's right, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
"I’m sworn to secrecy. I wasn’t allowed a script until I got there, and when I did I felt like a complete child being on big sets and a huge parking lot full of Winnebagos," Agutter told The Radio Times.
Agutter went on to say one of those Winnebagos was reserved for Iron Man and one was for Spider-Man. We imagine it's red and blue, and contains a fridge full of flies and science books.
Now, Agutter's statement does make our spider-senses tingle a little bit - after all, Sony owns the rights to Spider-Man's big screen adventures, and Marvel owns the Avengers, so the studios would have had to draw up some fairly complicated contracts to make this happen but the fact this is a Joss Whedon film gives us hope.
This is exactly the kind of awesome Joss brings to his projects, and we really, really hope he's pulled it off.
And surely Sony wouldn't pass up a bit of free promotion / goodwill for The Amazing Spider-Man, which is out a couple of months after Avengers?
Either way we can't wait to see The Avengers. Now more than ever. Excelsior!
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Ali1748
Jan 24th 2012, 17:48
Now that would be pretty cool.
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filbert77
Jan 24th 2012, 18:37
Me - don't look, you'll just regret it and get anno *click* HOLY s**t NERDGASM.
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Tarantino3011
Jan 24th 2012, 19:25
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THAT IS SOOOOOOOOO AWESOME!!!!!
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YorksProp
Jan 24th 2012, 20:40
Meh not sure if it's needed. Big fan of spiderman but not sure how he would fit in given that Amazing Spiderman is out after Avengers and is an origin story. I'm massively looking forward to this film anyway so this doesn't add anything for me.
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StevePotter
Jan 24th 2012, 20:51
He won't be in any other movies unless the Amazing Spider-Man bombs horribly, convincing Sony to give the rights to Marvel.... Fingers crossed.
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FBAWalker
Jan 24th 2012, 21:04
This story
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FBAWalker
Jan 24th 2012, 23:16
This story is garbage. Totally false. It's basically illegal for Marvel Studios to show or even allude to Spider-Man. Anyone ever think that this lady is just off her rocker?
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JamieCollins
Jan 25th 2012, 0:41
I thought both Spiderman and The Avengers were filmed on the same set, so this may explain it. I hope she's right though, cause being a big Joss Whedon fan I think he could actually pull this off. The more ridiculous the better in my opinion.
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theruffler
Jan 25th 2012, 8:47
Is it just me that thinks this film is building itself up to be THE biggest movie disappoitnment of all time? Just can't picture how all these different characters are going to fit into a coherent plot shorter than 4 hours. Too many cooks etc etc. Just me? Oh. I'll get my coat.
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Indianabones
Jan 25th 2012, 10:00
Maybe a way around getting Spidy into this is by hiring Andrew Garfield, calling him Pete/r and have him in plain clothes.......... its a cameo, they don't need to say/do anything we will all know ;) and I think I would geek out a bit from that
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Firedragon76
Jan 25th 2012, 12:36
I hope this is not true or what's next? Wolverine, Superman and The Green Hornet dropping by Wayne Manor for a game of poker? I agree with JamieCollins though - if someone is able to pull this off, it's Joss Whedon.
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SiMan
Jan 25th 2012, 14:19
@Firedragon - not to be too overly geeky, but Wolverine is Marvel, so couldn't appear with Supes, green hornet and Batman for a game of poker. Plus Superman isn't allowed to gamble. He cheats. Sorry. With regards to the Spidey cameo - i agree with FBAWalker - i thought marvel studios didn't own the rights to the screen version of Spiderman, or the Xmen (although don't know about Xmen for sure) - I personally love it when you get little cameos in movies, so the more the merrier for me.
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Firedragon76
Jan 25th 2012, 14:47
@SiMan: I knew that would happen ;-) I expected to get schooled about the Batman/Superman connection though, so you did manage to surprise me in a way.
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FBAStrezev
Jan 25th 2012, 16:47
This trailer was sick! The Film Informant did a nice writeup on The Avengers...
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