Marvel's The Avengers won't include Skrulls
Today, reporting in from SXSW, Joss Whedon has once again confirmed that neither Skrulls nor the Kree will be making any kind of appearance in Marvel's The Avengers when it debuts in theaters this May. He offers a couple of reasons why they aren't included. Mainly the fact that both alien races, so popular in the Marvel Universe, have far too much backstory to explore in a two hour film that has seven lead characters.
Here is Joss Whedon's statement on the aliens we've glimpsed in the most recently released trailer and the Lego sets.
"It's the Vulcans. I don't know a lot about the Marvel universe, and I thought there were Vulcans. I know we're going to get a lot of emails about that one...I will say only this: It is not the Kree or the Skrulls.
Those two aliens are Marvel mainstays and have enormous back stories. They have a big life of their own that just could not be contained in a film where I already had seven movie stars.
The Skrulls...They can shape change. That's a whole thing. I've already got Loki. He's got magic. Once you got magic along with your Iron Man and your Black Widow...It's a real juggling act."
Those two aliens are Marvel mainstays and have enormous back stories. They have a big life of their own that just could not be contained in a film where I already had seven movie stars.
The Skrulls...They can shape change. That's a whole thing. I've already got Loki. He's got magic. Once you got magic along with your Iron Man and your Black Widow...It's a real juggling act."
Joss Whedon also talked about his budget, and that he wanted to build his own limitations on what the film could be despite his vast resources.
"When you can have everything, everybody wants to give you everything, and then it's very hard to make things feel real. To make things feel lived in. So we had to work hard at taking the big budget out of the movie. Too much Scrooge is not a good thing. We have to think more creatively about cutting the budget and limiting ourselves."
It has long been speculated that Walt Disney Pictures does not own the rights to use The Kree nor Skrulls in this particular franchise, because those rights are with another studio. It is believed that the aliens in Marvel's The Avengers are a generic alien race based off both the Kree and Skrull, changed just enough as to not cause any legal issues.
It has been rumored that either the Kree, a scientifically and technologically advanced militaristic alien race, or Skrulls, an alien race of shape shifters bent on taking over the Earth, will appear in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot at 20th Century Fox.
Marvel's The Avengers was released May 4th, 2012 and stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg. The film is directed by Joss Whedon.
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Bane5000
@monkeyiron2-0...I have a real good idea of who they will have for part 3, from what ive seen happens in a part of the film :]
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Monkeyiron 2.0
@bane5000 i think they would make the skulls in the 3rd movie
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Bane5000
@monkeyiron2-0...so they are Skrulls, just a different verson of them to be used in the MCU...lets just hope down the line we get the actual Skrulls for a Marvel Sutdios film
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Monkeyiron 2.0
@bawnian-dexeus thought you wanna know
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Bawnian©-Dexeus
@monkeyiron2-0 Who cares?
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Monkeyiron 2.0
@ROFLitschristian@ejk1@ghostman@bane5000@bawnian-dexeus@insertusernamehere They are Skrulls.....But not....They are the ULTIMATE SKRULLS a.k.a. The chitauri
1 year agoby @monkeyiron2-0Flag
gandoff2169
Saw John Carter of Mars yesterday. I loved it a lot. If anyone not seen it, go watch it. But the extended trailer for Avengers is attached to John Carter, and to me, seamed it was longer with more movie goodies in it, then anything released online before this weekend. I may be wrong, but I think there is more on it.
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gandoff2169
@ghostman My point exactly. Just can not be called Skrulls/Kree all because another studio owns movie rights to them, and no doubt wants way to much money.
1 year agoby @gandoff2169Flag
Bane5000
Official run tume for The Avengers...2 hrs and 15 min. says Joss Whedon
1 year agoby @bane5000Flag
Ghostman
Bullsh*t they're the Skrulls/Kree but you can't call them that. Like all those knock-off grocery products haha!
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Fry_3000
if he actually cares about the back story of the skrulls, then he must really give a sh*t about this film and chracters, whch means he was the right choice for this film. Id say let him direct 'the flash', next.
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ROFLitschristian
Well that sucks. I was really looking forward to the Skrulls bashing our planet.
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ROFLitschristian
@moviemouse That's what I've been hoping for from the start.
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Joshua Hollaway
@ejk1 ah..curse my vast knowledge of fictional Marvel characters.
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moviemouse
i got i feelin thanos may be involved
1 year agoby @moviemouseFlag
ejk1
@Joshua-Hollaway He was playfully jesting about crossing Marvel with Star Trek.
@bane5000 With the Cosmic Cube in play, and since we've had glimpses of the Infinity Gauntlet, it only makes sense for Thanos to make an appearance eventually.
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Joshua Hollaway
I dont consider 250 million to be a small budget..but Im sure they couldve gotten 400 million easily..but Vulcan is a mutant who ties in to X-MEN stories..which has nothing to do with The Avengers. So Whedon, you lost me there..
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Bane5000
@ejk1...yeah, they shouldve atleast saved or bought back the rights to Kree/Skrull if they knew back when they were plannin the MCU that they may need them for an Avengers film...with so many characters, heroes and villians cross overs in Marvels history, its hard to determine what studios own the rights to which specific characters...unless FOX and SONY actually have a definitive list of characters they own rights to...Annihilus, Thanos, Kree and Skrulls should be up for grabs and be used by Marvel Studios
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ejk1
@bane5000 that would be interesting, but it would show a total f*ck up by Marvel. How can the Skrull/Kree show up in FF, while Annihilus shows up in the Avengers. It should be the other way around. If you're right, and I don't have a problem if you are, it shows that Marvel made some colossal mistakes when it divvied up its properties.
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Bawnian©-Dexeus
Redacted
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Bane5000
Still say its Annihilus and the Annihilation Wave
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gandoff2169
Allow me to decipher his words for everyone....
"There is no Kree or Skulls." Meaning, we can not call them that, due to a legal issue on ownership of film rights. So they shall be called something else, be a different color, and not be the exact same thing in its original form as the Kree of Skulls. That way we can have our super crazy shape shifting tech using alien army, and give a huge zinger to the studios's who currently own those rights to the Kree and Skulls and refused to work with us to use them on this movie and make millions in profits..... Lmao
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Sean
It'll be cool to see the Vulcans in the Avengers movie!
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thrashnasty190
@jayaottley http://www.comicbookmovie.com/batman_movies/news/?a=4931
also I did not mean to call him jizz, my autocorrect on my phone is a bitch.
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Jay.A.Ottley
@thrashnasty190 Where exactly was this pitch, for batman?
1 year agoby @jayaottleyFlag
TheDuck
Its obviously The Badoon
1 year agoby @theduckFlag
thrashnasty190
@justatadmatt As much a fanboy as Jizz is he is capable of that, you should read the pitch he gave to Warner Bros. About a Batman film, he wanted to create a new badguy for bats to fight. But let's all hope he hasn't gone that route here or we will see a lot of angry fanboys such as myself lol
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justatadmatt
"It is believed that the aliens in Marvel's The Avengers are a generic alien race based off both the Kree and Skrull, changed just enough as to not cause any legal issues."
...when has this been discussed?! i feel that with whedon's passion and respect for this project, he would not go that route...he knows all the ridiculous crap it would create.
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Bawnian©-Dexeus
I gotta get to work so, I'll come back to read people's comments
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