Jul 26 2010Hey, It's the 'Avengers' Cast
As a conclusion to Marvel's Comic Con panel, the full Avengers cast showed up to give us a plain-clothes preview (with the exception of Robert Downey Jr., who was apparently in-costume as Richard Belzer) of the team and confirm the involvement of Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner as Hulk and Hawkeye, respectively. So what do you think? Did you expect it to look so much like a frat house reunion?
(from SuperHeroHype, thanks Greg)
Reader Comments
1. bowers28 - July 26, 2010 12:12 PM
YAY JOSS WHEDON
2. PurpleJedi - July 26, 2010 12:26 PM
The more I see pics like these, the more I like Chris Hemsworth as Thor and the LESS I like Chris Evans as Captain America.
3. emptyaddy - July 26, 2010 12:27 PM
Ensembles always make me hard.
4. frank - July 26, 2010 12:58 PM
Who's that bloke with the long hair and low-cut shirt?
5. Red Hood - July 26, 2010 1:16 PM
Ok, I'll say it. No Edward Norton sucks a little, but only a little. Mark Ruffalo is a damn fine actor, so I'm sure he's up to the task. Im well up for Jeremy Renner for Hawkeye, I'm guessing they'll go more for his Ultimate universe look, which I'm cool with.
All in all, that film is going to own.
6. BigHead86 - July 26, 2010 1:29 PM
anyone else think the cast is way too big? and that theres way too many characters to make a good sensible movie
7. Van - July 26, 2010 1:33 PM
Surprised no one said it yet but, "AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!"
8. Courageous - July 26, 2010 1:36 PM
While I absolutely love Scarlett Johansen, the widow was not a founding Avenger, nor was Hawkeye... where is (Ant-Man/Giant-Man) Hank Pym? What about (The Wasp) Janet Van Dyne? I am all for updating, but I see no reason not to include them, especially if you are going to have such a large cast to start with... Also, they went to all that trouble to do a new Hulk movie so that they could have a "team friendly" Hulk for the Avengers, so I think it was shitty to replace Edward Norton with anybody, nothing against Mark Ruffalo, whose work I very much respect...
'Nuf said!
9. Jimmy Fury - July 26, 2010 1:44 PM
So Scarlet is too good to do the arms-around-everyone thing everyone else is doing huh? Thinks she's better than Samuel L motherfcking Jackson does she?
@6 Normally I would say yes because large casts have never worked for Superhero movies. It basically murders any hope for them to build up the characters.
In this case though I think it *could* work since most of them will have a solo movie first to establish their characters.
10. proteon - July 26, 2010 3:05 PM
Joss Whedon is the only interesting thing about this.
Scarlett Johansen useless with a capital U in Iron Man 2 but I don't blame her.
11. Nero - July 26, 2010 3:48 PM
This is the avengers cast I have been dreaming about ... with one minor change, everybody exchanged for Eddie Murphy.
Eddie Murphy IS the avengers!
maybe keep Sam L
12. frank - July 26, 2010 5:06 PM
I will probably see this movie.
13. pmoney - July 26, 2010 7:04 PM
WHERES EDWARD NORTON?!?!111
really tho, eventually instead of changing the actor playing the hulk every movie i bet they change up the actor every scene. All of hollywood is going to be portrayed as Bruce Banner sooner or later.
14. timmy the dying boy - July 26, 2010 8:38 PM
I assume Scarlett will be Mrs. Peel, but who's playing Steed?
15. JChief - July 27, 2010 7:47 AM
We need at least a couple more good "team" superhero movies. The first two X-men did pretty well. But then the three tries at a Fantastic Four movie sucked colossal balls.
Whedon is one of us. One of us. One of us. I am optimistic. Joss, if you pull this off, this would clear the way for more Avengers, and possibly a JLA (DC needs to get back in this game).
16. Saint714 - August 31, 2010 4:02 PM
Chris Evens is a bad choice for Captain America. They'd have been *MUCH* better to sign John "The Marine" Cena as Steve Rogers, *ESPECIALLY* as the Ultimates version of Captain America.
In the comics, Captain America is 6'4" and 260 pounds, and is only slightly shorter and less muscular than Thor. Hell, Patrick "The Tick" Warburton would have been a better choice than Chris Evans.
And frankly, going with the Black Widow and Hawkeye is a mistake, instead of somebody like Scott Eastwood as Ant-Man/Giant-Man and Rachel Bilson as The Wasp.
In all, I'm more looking forward to "Thor" and "Deadpool" than I am "The Avengers."