Who Should Direct The Avengers

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Danny Boyle go watch sunshine and see what he got out of Evans

bah its irrating how he looks nothing like steve rogers.

Great editorial HAWKS! I've been a supporter of Abrams directing The Avengers for a while as well! :)

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Ryden: The Hulk is a founding member. He is not, nor could he ever be considered a core member.

He was there at the very beginning and that's it. These six have been around through thick and thin. Each one has been the leader and one of them is on almost every team.

Ryden: I agree with everything you just said. It's a given he's going to be in the movie. You know as well as I do that he never plays well with others for long.

I was just comparing the core members of Star Trek with those of the Avengers.

I thought you were proposing Zac Snyder after 300 and Watchmen.

Great article Hawks. I loved Star Trek. it was one of my favorite movies of 2009. I would be pleased is he directed Avengers. LL would be a good second choice. He seems to have stepped up his game with COT. If that movie is as awesome as it looks, then he wouldbe a solid choice.

Favs won't be doing Avengers, at least not directing. He's already said he won't. He will be an executive producer though.

Ridley scott

@mulder- you've got to be joking, Hulk IS apart of the Avengers just as much as Cap, Iron Man and Thor..in fact MORE SO than Cap considering Hulk was on the original team.

@Anil- Nah I don't want to see Hulk as the villain, if that were to happen it kind of makes TIH meaningless. Hulk is a hero, who is hard to control and is misunderstood...it's much more interesting than some Jekly/Hyde villain. Loki should be the villain, have him control Hulk and cause a bit of havoc...then have Iron Man, Cap, Thor, Hawkeye and S.H.I.E.L.D try and capture Hulk. When they do they realise he was merley a pawn in Loki's grand scheme, then Hulk joins the team and they take out Loki.

Simples :)

Yeah, Hulk being the only villain would be kind of lame to me.

Have Hulk cause a bit of mayhem, he's taken down, Banner tells them what happened and how he lost control or something, Loki is revealed, big fight, the end. Possible Loki team up with Abomination in said big fight. That would make me jizz.

Not just because I consider you two of my better friends on here, but I also think our thought processes are alot alike:

Between Anil Rickly, and Tyler's lists - those would be my pics. And for me it's too early to narrow it down to just one of those. I need to see what Leterrier does in the meanwhile, Clash especially. And what Abrams does.

I'm QUITE POSITIVE Abrams could make an excellent Avengers movie, but his style is, for one - tends toward cosmic sci fi, and two, his little trick so far has been "give the audience a magical sense of what if" - keep us on the edge of our seats by leveraging a sense of wonder, if you will. Which is MUCH more suited to Trek. I'd rather have him take us through a Trek trilogy than do the Avengers.

On the Hulk issue, I feel he's got to be in there. It is a direct and integral part of the original canon of The Avengers. I see alot of people suggest it, and I know I'm not the only. And not to seem unimaginitive, but what was done with Hulk/Thor Vs. would work well. Loki controlling Banner/Hulk. Also the bad hulk/good hulk facet, and the fact that we'll get Norton back as a supporting cast member will bring added dimension, depth, and quality.

I really think it's too early to be set on anyone for the direction of the Avengers, especially considering that entire production hinges on the financial success of IM 2, Thor, and Cap.

The two worst missed casting opportunities since I've been reading this site, imho: 1. Ryan Reynolds doing GL as opposed to Wally West/The Flash, and BEFORE and/or INSTEAD of Deadpool,

and 2. Chris Pine as Cap.

I know alot of you guys don't see it

But it's all right there just in Trek and Carriers.

The arc that Evans goes through in FF, though similar (and even highly applicable to what will need to happen with Cap), is so so much more one dimensional than what Pine does in Trek and Carriers. Even though Evans is 90% better than most for the role, I will always see Pine having been a great missed opportunity for Cap... always.

hah man I was seriously just thinking it, and had been thinking about that a couple of weeks ago - I guess after watching Planet Hulk, and TIH blu ray features.

Considering they already have the Abomination worked out (though of course they'll JUST HAVE TO spend $5 mil on retooling him lol).

My only concern is that if they do that - it could end up like Spiderman 3. Too much too fast... plus isn't Zack Penn writing the script? - I find that a bit terrifying. And if you get Hank and Janet Pym and Hawkeye in there (though they simply must be to some capacity - at least cameos), we're dealing with like 10+ main characters. I think they need to get Orci and Kurtzman, or Goyer and Nolan and give them about an entire year or more to write the script, and we'll be ok.

that's a good point - LOTR did pull off the balance. Trek too - original Star Wars. But there has never beena build up like this done (to my knowledge). I just hope IM2, Thor, and Cap do so well as to open up all those possibilities that LOTR had. I think they probably will. What I do know about alot of people, is that they're not aware how rich the source material is and that IM, Thor and Cap are leading up to what they're leading up to. The cameos help alot, but they're gonna have to do some serious marketing to get people to realize and understand what's gonna eventually happen here.

@Anil Rickly - "i think if this movie is done right...will DECIMATE ALL AVATAR RECORDS...I BET MY NUTS ON IT "

lol it's gotta be 3d though. Now it's for sure those 3d glasses is what boosted Avatar's profits so high. It's really Amazing though that Titanic did what it did, and held that record for so long - for that fact alone, Cameron is mindblowingly successful. But those 3d glasses pushed Avatar.

Considering we're in a recession, it is still amazing. Even though movies do well in recessions/depressions, because of the escapism factor. But economically I always find it funny, because before this recession hit, every weekend for the last thirty years it's like "this movie has the new highest opening gross" - weekend after weekend. It's called INFLATION duh lol.

I mean they're charging upwards of $5 for the glasses now - you know they cost about ten cents to make and not much more to distribute - AND they get "recycled". And they're going to hike the price again (which is on the front page and was on the national news lastnight), which is going to price alot of families out of going to a theatre. I really do find it disgusting, and if the movie industry/theatres (I'm not sure how the distribution on them works) think they can pull this one over on moviegoers, they're gonna hate it when they start seeing things even out best case scenario.

If a theatre wanted to do good business, and not this cannibalistic shark capitalism bullshit, they should charge a surcharge every so often and allow you to bring your glasses back. Or something like that.

Anyway, if The Avengers is to make ginormous profits, it's going to have to be done in pre production 3d - like Avatar. Not all this post junk imo.

I'd really like to see Ridley Scott take a swing at it.

SERIOUSLY WHO CARES ANYMORE!!!!

They've already [frick]ed it up picking EVANS, if HANK & JAN arn't in it... then X-MEN [frick]ing 3 is gonna look a masterpiece more than this! : P

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Thanks for the responses everyone. There are a lot of great suggestions here.

bullsize: The Avengers have over 500 issues in their regular title. I have no idea how many one shots and spin offs, but it's a lot.

The Hulk is in around 5 of those issues as a member. He is a co-founder of the team. He can never ever be considered a core member or central figure of the team.

Again, I did not forget him.

you are forgetting the hulk brother, and he has to be in it.

@DogsOfWar - awesome poster! Well done!

For me - Alfonso Cuarón all the way.

who to direct the avengers ?
1.jj abrams
2.matthew vaughn
3.ridley scott

Hulk is not a core member 'cause he left right at the
beginning! He was barely in there! He just was used by Loki
and then ran off on his own like he always has been! The
big green guy is a little outta his head most the time!

I don't know why everybody's always talking about Ed Norton
and THE AVENGERS! Bruce Banner is hardly in THE AVENGERS!
It's not like Bruce can just change into THE HULK anytime
he wants to! He needs to be in the first AVENGERS movie but
after that HULK disappears from THE AVENGERS!

The core members are the main ones at the beginning who
stuck around for the long haul: IRON MAN, THOR, CAPTAIN
AMERICA, WASP, HANK PYM, HAWKEYE, SCARLET WITCH, BLACK
WIDOW, BLACK PANTHER, and VISION!

It's crap the way
some people keep trying to exclude Hank & Jan! They were
there at the beginning, stuck around and are integral to
THE AVENGERS story! Hank Pym invented a lot of the stuff for
THE AVENGERS along with TONY STARK! Hank Pym invented the
A.I. ANDROID ULTRON! ULTRON is essential to THE AVENGERS
story! HANK PYM and JAN are ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to THE
AVENGERS story, "ABSOLUTELY"!!!!! WTF is the wrong with
some people who want to get rid of HANK & JAN but want to
keep a big crazy too-powerful green monster in there!
HULK was at the beginning and that was IT! Screw Hulk!