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Robert Downey Jr. Talks About The Avengers & More

Robert Downey Jr. recently took on the interview circuit to promote Iron Man 2 and in doing so talked a little bit about the upcoming Avengers film.

He didn’t confirm his participation in The Avengers just yet. “I don’t know,” he said. “I try not to think about that stuff, because everything changes in success, and everything changes in lack of success.”

When asked if Tony Stark/Iron Man will take orders from Chris Evans’ Captain America, Downey said “I’ll clown all of them. I’ll just clown those fools.”

Downey also has confirmed he did visit the set of Thor as a bit of a “Marvel ambassador.”

Check out the interview videos courtesy of MTV:

Source: MTV Splash Page

Posted by Craig Byrne Apr 29, 2010
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The Hulk Will Be In The Avengers

the hulk movieMovieWeb caught up with Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige last week and asked about The Hulk’s future in the Marvel movie universe.

“Not before The Avengers,” he told the site. “He was there in The Avengers #1 and in The Ultimates #1 so certainly the Hulk is a key part of these films leading up to The Avengers. Iron Man 2 has some clues to where these timelines take place as they relate to each other. So I certainly think Hulk will be a player on that team.”

As for whether or not Edward Norton would be returning to reprise his role from The Incredible Hulk, Fiege says a lot of it depends on the story, among other things. “A lot of it depends on the story, a lot of it depends on the schedule and a lot of it depends on the lofty ideas that we have,” he says. “You also have to work with the realties of people’s schedules as to when they are available and stuff like that. So we reserve the right to say Hulk will be in it for sure, we’ll see about Banner.”

Read the entire interview at MovieWeb.

Posted by Craig Byrne Apr 29, 2010
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Joss Whedon To Direct The Avengers?

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Deadline: Hollywood is now reporting that Buffy: The Vampire Slayer’s Joss Whedon may be directing the big screen team-up film The Avengers.

Here’s what Deadline’s Nikki Finke had to say:

"I’m told Marvel Studios is in final negotiations for Buffy the Vampire Slayer series architect Joss Whedon to direct Marvel Studios’ The Avengers. That’s thefast-tracked film that would amount to an all-star team of Marvel superheros, including Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), as well as SHIELD leader Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Other signature superheros will likely be involved, but I’ve listed the actors in active superhero duty. Whedon has been  rumored for this job for awhile, and is high on the fanboy wish-list. He’s an interesting choice: despite his writing/producing TV series resume, his lone feature directing effort, Serenity, was not a hit. After Iron Man 2, Marvel has three pictures left on a distribution deal with Paramount before it moves to Disney, and the studio has been churning them out. Iron Man 2 gets released in May, Captain America will begin shooting this summer in Europe, Thor is in production, and Marvel Studios just set Pete Sollett to direct Runaways, based on the comic book series created by Lost writer Brian K. Vaughan. Whedon has written installments of the latter, so he knows how to make those superheros fly. Marvel has considered all of the individual superhero movies to  be an intro to The Avengers, so the wanna-see on this one will be huge. The film will be released in the first weekend of May, 2012."

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Posted by Craig Byrne Apr 20, 2010
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