RW418 - MCU Rewatch - The Avengers

 

In this episode of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Rewatch, Cory and Nathan assemble once more to discuss "The Avengers"

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Jon Favreau was at one point attached to direct, and stayed on as executive producer.

By April 2010, Joss Whedon was close to completing a deal to direct the film and to rework the script, and was officially announced in July 2010. On the hiring, Avi Arad stated: "My personal opinion is that Joss will do a fantastic job. He loves these characters and is a fantastic writer [...] It's part of his life so you know he is going to protect it [...] I expect someone like him is going to make the script even better". Feige added, "I've known Joss for many years. We were looking for the right thing and he came in and met on it [...] we want[ed] to find a director that’s on the verge of doing something great, as we think Joss is."

The first Marvel Cinematic Universe film to earn $1 billion. It surpassed The Dark Knight (2008)'s record of $1,001,921,825 to become the highest-grossing comic book film of all time. It is also the first film to gross $200 million in its first three days in the U.S.

Due to UK copyright issues over the name, Marvel had to release the film in the UK under the name "Avengers Assemble", as there had already been an unrelated film with Sir Sean Connery and Ralph Fiennes released by Warner Brothers, The Avengers (1998). That movie was based on The Avengers (1961), which starred Patrick Macnee. As Warner Brothers UK owned the copyrighted name, and objected to Marvel using it, Marvel were forced to change the name to "Avengers Assemble" for its UK theatrical and home video release. As film prints and marketing for the Republic of Ireland were handled by Disney UK. They decided to stick with the name change for that territory too, for cost effectiveness reasons.

Robert Downey Jr. kept food hidden all over the lab set, and apparently nobody could find where it was, so they just let him continue doing it. In the movie, that's his actual food he's offering, and when he was eating, it wasn't scripted, he was just hungry.

There were very few times that everyone was in town at once, but on one night when they were, Chris Evans sent them all a text message reading "Assemble" (the tagline to the movie), prompting a night out on the town. Clark Gregg has stated that this is his favorite text message that he has ever received.

In the final end credit scene, Captain America is the only one not eating. That is because Chris Evans got a buzz cut, and grew out his beard after this movie was done filming. He was called in later to do this extra scene, and couldn't shave off his beard, due to filming Snowpiercer (2013) at the time, so they gave him a prosthetic jaw. He holds his hand over his face because the prosthetic made him look like he'd been attacked by a hive of angry bees. He also is unable to eat or talk with the prosthetic on.

To prepare for the role of Agent Clint Barton (Hawkeye), Jeremy Renner was trained by Olympic archers.

Edward Norton was originally set to reprise his role from The Incredible Hulk (2008), but negotiations between him and Marvel Studios broke down. Norton was replaced with Mark Ruffalo, who had also been considered for the role in the prior movie.

Stan lee Cameo: interviewed about the Avengers saving Manhattan. Lee's character responds, "Superheroes in New York? Give me a break"

What's Up Next?

Next episode, we'll be taking a break from the MCU and discussing an early Chris Evans performance in "Not Another Teen Movie"

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