Its really happening folks. Marvel and Paramount will get the cameras rolling on the most highly anticipated CBM of all time early next year...
SuperHeroHype has learned that Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios are planning to start shooting The Avengers in February, 2011 for a May 4, 2012 release.
It was already rumored that it would be around Feb when Marvel would have get things moving to make their scheduled release date, but this confirms it. As SSH notes, the shoot date is not long after Sony will begin filming the
Spider-Man reboot in December, and both movies will shoot in LA. Maybe the studios will join forces and give us a Spidey cameo in
Avengers? Yeah, maybe not.
The Avengers will be helmed by Joss Whedon(Most likely in 3D..see article below) and stars Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Mark Ruffalo as Hulk, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson.
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