Marvel Studios is setting it's current batch of films, including
Iron Man,
Thor and
The First Avenger: Captain America to converge together in the
The Avengers. But if what screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby told
MTV is to be believed, the involvement of
The Incredible Hulk may not be as a member of the Avengers, but instead as the menace they battle.
"I hope
The Avengers embraces that," Fergus said of having the Hulk appear as the film's antagonist. "You don't want like 10 super-badass good guys fighting together. Where's the fun in that? Let's break it off a little. Friends or colleagues who become enemies is always an interesting thing because you know it's based on love and friendship and that's always the worst thing to have turn bad - is someone you actually care about and someone you actually believe in."
In the comics The Hulk has battled nearly every superhero in the Marvel universe, often as a result of a misunderstanding of some sort. Furthermore, because he has already appeared in his own film,
The Avengers wouldn't need to waste time establishing his origin. And the closing shot of
The Incredible Hulk deliberately set things up so that the Hulk could be used as a threat in a future film.
"I left the door open for whoever's going to direct
The Avengers with our last shot. Edward [Norton] and I, we consciously decided to make the last shot of the movie when he opens his eyes and he smirks at the camera," Leterrier told us. "Is he enjoying it? Is he malicious? That's what's great about Edward. You don't know if he's a good guy or bad guy. He's always on this edge and we've been sort of surfing that edge, that very thin edge during the entire movie."
Furthermore, the scene where Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark appears to General Ross near the end of
The Incredible Hulk even suggests that the reason the Avengers are being put together might be to contain the Hulk.
For his part, Fergus entirely approves of this approach. "I personally like when good-guy characters have to fight each other," he said. "Good guys going against good guys who both believe in an issue is way more interesting than a villain clearly into evil and I like when former friends become committed enemies."
We'll see how the groundwork is laid through the releases of
Thor,
Iron Man 2 and
The First Avenger: Captain America - and then watch how it all comes together when
The Avengers hits theatres in 2011.
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I don't think JR's being racist. The Word "Nigga" isn't real. It's made up to make people who call each other that feel better about using the word in the first place.
All the directors that have directed any Marvel movie, and the creators of the Mavel characters should get together and work on the movie, just a thought.
Also, how does the Punisher fit into all this.
thats just racist
i guess we all know who JR is voting for lol
Cap fits in there in various places, overseeing the whole thing and proving himself as The leader of The Avengers.
You could fit this into one movie if you do enough backstory for Loki
(and Maybe even Ultron) in the Thor movie, give Ant-Man some Minor presence in Iron Man 2 (or 3, but I don't know if they're just doing Avengers after Iron Man 2 or trying to squeeze in another sequel or what) And give Captain America a good ending.
The big key here is collaboration between Directors and Writers so that all of these films, Iron Man: The Ten Rings, Thor, and Captain America: TFA do as much as they can to work toward a common end--
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Ready or not, here it comes.
(think it would be good to use the end of the Thor movie as a a partial lead-in to the Avengers because the Avengers originally "Assembled" because of Loki, and with a Thor movie coming out, it just seems too perfect to pass up)
But then how do you transition from Loki to Ultron? I really want to see Ultron and the Vision in this series.
To the guy below me: He wouldn't
naw im just fuckin wit ya
i kinda like this idea sort of like the cartoon movie
if he is going to be up against the avengers it would make the avengers the bad guys in my eyes ! the hulk only turns bad if something bad happens to him !!! anyway, all of this is irrelevant because Batman is THE ONE ! he will take them all outside onto the chippins and give em all a good hiding and be back home to his apartment in time for tea and cookies ;)
The Leader was introduced at the end of 'The Incredible Hulk'. So if the big green fella hasn't had a sequel made before they make 'The Avengers', or unless Iron Man, Thor or Cap America have slapped him about in their solo films The Leader is the obvious choice for the villain.