The Avengers

**yourmom_is_hot** · 10-30-2008, 08:00 AM

Director Jon Favreau, who is preparing to helm Iron Man 2 for Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures, recently gave an interview in which he discussed the challenges facing Marvel's live-action film version of The Avengers, which the Web-friendly filmmaker will exec produce.

"I'm going to get a little more involved now with what goes on with the other movies. I'm very excited about Kenneth Branagh, I can't wait to see his take on Thor and we're really looking at the (Captain America) stuff, very closely," Favreau told Ain't it Cool News. "For one because we put the shield in there and Tony's legacy… Howard Stark's legacy somehow is related to… there's some relationship between Tony's father and what was going on in World War II, in the Marvel Universe, and Shield, so we're trying to lay some pipe here so that when it all happens it feels somewhat inevitable."

The greatest challenge facing the filmmakers, Favreau says, is achieving a tonal balance for all the upcoming Marvel movies, and he cites Thor in particular as "the most difficult one to integrate into this reality. And if it can be properly done then you get a great version of Avengers. If not, Avengers is going to seem like Roger Rabbit with different cartoon characters from different worlds, you have Betty Boop next to Daffy Duck next to Donald Duck you know."

The director believes Marvel's decision to shoot Iron Man 2, The First Avenger: Captain America, Thor, and The Avengers at L.A.'s Raleigh Studios will help accomplish that. "I think a really good step in that direction is them getting this facility down at Manhattan Beach so that all the films will be working out of the same studio and shooting on the same stages and they'll be prepping and posting and we'll all be in that one area so we can bounce back and forth and hopefully they'll be a generosity of creative input between all of the filmmakers and writers and producers so that we could come up with something that's much more synergistic than anything that has been seen before. But it's a tall order."

fyi, both Downy Jr and Cheadle signed on for the Avengers movie.

**msu DW** · 10-30-2008, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by yourmom_is_hot

fyi, both Downy Jr and Cheadle signed on for the Avengers movie.

those are two of my favs and great actors

**snydergb** · 10-30-2008, 09:56 AM

I wonder if Norton will sign on to reprise Bruce Banner.

**BigDog** · 10-30-2008, 09:59 AM

Um...Captain America has already been done to perfection...three times...

**ACfromtheD** · 10-30-2008, 10:07 AM

The internet rumors are that DiCaprio is in line to play Cap.

I can't even express how happy I would be with that.

**BigDog** · 10-30-2008, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by ACfromtheD

The internet rumors are that DiCaprio is in line to play Cap.

I can't even express how happy I would be with that.

Top 3 are Leo, Pitt and McConneghy (sp). I hate all three of them.

**ACfromtheD** · 10-30-2008, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by BigDog

Top 3 are Leo, Pitt and McConneghy (sp). I hate all three of them.

Pitt isn't rumored to play Cap. He's rumored to play Thor.

And if you don't like Leo or Brad Pitt I have to assume your taste in actors is as good as your taste in music.

**BigDog** · 10-30-2008, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by ACfromtheD

Pitt isn't rumored to play Cap. He's rumored to play Thor.

And if you don't like Leo or Brad Pitt I have to assume your taste in actors is as good as your taste in music.

Latest Captain America Casting Rumor: Leo? - Cinematical

According to Latino Review (a site well-known and typically respected for its accuracy with rumors of this sort), Marvel Studios has placed Leo on the top of their list of candidates for the role. Of course, there's been no offer made yet, and this is simply the same sort of wish list we heard about for Thor (Brad Pitt is the top of that list), so there's no need to get crazy over the possibility ... yet.

Speaking of Pitt, Marvel apparently has placed him as second on their list for Cap. They either want him for The First Avenger: Captain America or Thor. Maybe they'll even offer him the roles of Ant-Man and everyone else in The Avengers (it would be like this, but with Pitt playing all the roles instead of Johnny Depp). There's no mention of who is #3. It could be Matthew McConaughey, who was rumored to be considered before.

Leo and Pitt are fine. But not as a super hero.

**ACfromtheD** · 10-30-2008, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by BigDog

Leo and Pitt are fine. But not as a super hero.

Signed,

Heath Ledger as the Joker

If anything, Iron Man and Dark Knight should prove the idea that getting a great actor is at the top of the list in terms of producing a good superhero movie. Getting the greatest actor of his generation to play Captain America would be tremendous.

I sort of doubt he'll do something that commercial though.