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Will A Director's Cut Of MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS Be Re-released Into Theaters?

Just a rumor doing the rounds for now, but there is a possibility we will see Joss Whedon's amazing The Avengers back in theaters soon enough - and with those highly anticipated additional 35 minutes added on..

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By Mark "RorMachine" Cassidy - 6/12/2012
I saw this earlier on but didn't pay too much attention as it seemed ridiculous to think that Marvel would re-release the movie so soon after its first theatrical run, but, it seems there might be some truth to it after all. The rumor first popped up over at Superheroauthority, who write..

The Avengers is sitting comfortably at No. 3 overall on both the domestic and International ticket sale charts but it seems both Marvel and Disney desire the No. 1 overall spot and a current rumor says they could be contemplating releasing The Avengers: Director's Cut in theaters at the end of this summer.




So basically, word is Marvel really want those #1 and #2 spots currently held by Avatar and Titanic, and plan to re-release The Avengers will an extra 35 or so minutes of screen time back into theaters to try and nab them. And now Movies.com have picked up on the story, but add that although Marvel have declined to comment, one Hollywood insider has conformed that this is at least a possibility. So, as strange as it sounds, we might just get to see that highly anticipated director's cut of The Avengers in theaters a lot sooner that we expected.







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ISleepNow - 6/12/2012, 3:25 PM
Cool, glad I waited :)
SimyJo - 6/12/2012, 3:28 PM
HELL YEEEEEEAH !!!

I'd go and see a theatrical directors cut, but what I REALLY want is a seemless branching Blu-Ray directors cut on the 17th September - dreaming I know.
Knightrider - 6/12/2012, 3:31 PM
Although I would debate a directors cut is a, although slightly, different movie. Did Titanic 3D add to the takings of Titanic?

I think if they want number 1 spot then, just let it leave the cinema naturally, then 2 weeks before the DVD comes out re-release the movie, then I think it would take the number 1 spot.
IronSpider101 - 6/12/2012, 3:32 PM
Ehhh, I'll wait until DVD.

I love the movie, don't get me wrong. But this feels a bit excessive to me.
HelaGood - 6/12/2012, 3:32 PM
i would totally go see that... twice!
SageMode - 6/12/2012, 3:32 PM
Will be back in the theaters for this. Mos def
DEADP0000L - 6/12/2012, 3:34 PM
how much i loved avengers i need to move on. its not you it's me. there is alot more Films coming out this year i want to see. but i promise i will get you on BLue Ray :)
Sortis - 6/12/2012, 3:34 PM
ehhhhh don't do it Marvel...I LOVED the movie, but you need to wait a bit, really.
DEADP0000L - 6/12/2012, 3:35 PM
i did see avengers 4 times in 3D. IMAX 3D twice
Greengo - 6/12/2012, 3:35 PM
I effing hope so

Do it.

Do it.
captainbeta - 6/12/2012, 3:37 PM
I would take my whole clan again. Awesome movie. He said in an interview he cut a few things out. I would love to see them.
Greengo - 6/12/2012, 3:37 PM
Shake that money maker!

DOWN WITH AVATARRRRRRRRR!!!!
PantherX - 6/12/2012, 3:37 PM
Hmm, that seems kinda soon, wouldn't create such an impact unless they market the hell out of it.
thewonderer - 6/12/2012, 3:38 PM
I think what Marvel should do is release Avengers again before Avengers 2. With some great marketing and a highly anticipated Avengers 2, they could very well reach number 1
MARVELPSYCHO79 - 6/12/2012, 3:40 PM
If Marvel goes through with it,this movie will take either spot.I hope it takes number 1.There was nothing great or groundbreaking about Avatar.It had great special effects though.
Knightrider - 6/12/2012, 3:40 PM
@KMaguire99 I think a re-release, down the line is a much better option. As I said above Avengers: The Directors Cut if released should start at 0 and have its own takings and not be added to the Avengers, not that I wouldn't love to see it be number 1, but they are two movies.

If you are going to do, and I hope Avengers does, then the Avengers has to do it, not Avengers + Avengers: The Directors Cut.
2Challa - 6/12/2012, 3:40 PM
PLEASE GOD MAKE IT SO
himynameisnik - 6/12/2012, 3:42 PM
Joss has said he doesn't agree with Directors Cuts though?
Knightrider - 6/12/2012, 3:44 PM
@ToDandy Cheers I wasn't sure if it did, which again I personally believe that shouldn't have added to the original takings too, although if the film remained the same it would have more of a right to claim it should, but again the moment you change even the slightest thing, then the viewing experience is not same for everybody and thus any movie and I mean any movie should then get treated as a separate entity altogether.
NickKaseAKAthePieEATERxGETIT - 6/12/2012, 3:45 PM
Better than re-releasing it before oscar season to pander to the critics like those dc/wb homos
FriendlyNeighborhoodSpidey - 6/12/2012, 3:46 PM
I WOULD TOTALLY SEE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CaptainJackSpareribs - 6/12/2012, 3:46 PM
Avengers Directors Cut re-release = Marvel is scared of what The Dark Knight Rises might do to their current record.
jessepostal - 6/12/2012, 3:47 PM
It would def make some serious money if they did, I'd go see it
gambgel - 6/12/2012, 3:47 PM
what a cheap way from the studio to get even more money from the fans.

If you really like the cut footage, you should have included it in the first version, not a few months later.
hartley07 - 6/12/2012, 3:48 PM
i dont care if they put it in the theater. I WANT TO OWN IT. give me news about a directors cut on bluray.
iJackSparrow - 6/12/2012, 3:50 PM
I've been to seven The Avengers screenings and I plan to go at least more three times, possibly more. Now all I need is to The Amazing Spider-Man to be The [frick]ing Brilliant Spider-Man and that in The Avengers Director's Cut, the Oscorp building appears this time.
Bread - 6/12/2012, 3:50 PM
HELL YEA I'LL SEE THAT VERSION ANOTHER 3 TIMES EXTENDED SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTT
Gmoney84 - 6/12/2012, 3:51 PM
Oh I'm so there!
iJackSparrow - 6/12/2012, 3:58 PM
I want them to estabilish that the Oscorp building exists in the same Marvel Cinematic Universe. I'm okay with them working this out for the next films. I'm okay to set my head as The Amazing Spider-Man is happening before The Avengers events. I want an appearance of him in the next Avengers film and Peter acknowledging how [frick]ing crazy the World is since after he got his powers and fought with the Lizard in TASM 2.

This is the stuff that always made Marvel so [frick]ing awesome and I feel that will translated perfectly for the cinematic universe.

And this is for the ones that think there's just no way that Marvel and Sony will work out an agreement to The Amazing Spider-Man to happen in the same Marvel Cinematic Universe as the other Marvel Films:

http://latino-review.com/2012/06/11/spider-man-the-avengers-sort/

We are very close of that. And this my friends, this is Marvel Fanboys heaven. I never doubted that TASM would be nothing short of amazing, and from the buzz coming from the press screenings, I was right all along. The reboot seems to fit perfectly with the Marvel Cinematic Universe tone, and it's the best interests of the studios and the public that all this characters coexist together.

Am I hopeful that we'll see the X-Men amd the Fantastic Four fighting together with The Avengers anytime soon? No, I think Fox is far too dumb to even negotiate something like that. But I do believe that we are very close of having all the stories integrated in the same universe.

The timing to introduce Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is perfect right now, right after the gate of The Avengers. If TASM prove itself as the best Spider-Man film yet and Marc Webb and the cast seem to have nailed this one big time, well, then this is it. This is comic book movie heaven, folks. Not only two superb comic book movies in one year, but three, and three box office monsters with public and critical acclaim.

This year will become stuff for the legends. We'll remember this year as the year that the year that comic book films consolidate themselves as the biggest money makers of Hollywood. I'm sincerily hoping that the three of them, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises are ALL game changers, and that if the last two live up to their hype as much as The Avengers did, that they become box office monster too. It's possible, people. We've won. The geeks have won. The ceiling is off.
iJackSparrow - 6/12/2012, 4:00 PM
As for the Nolanites, you are forgetting or trying to understimate The Amazing Spider-Man. This film will make a HELL of lot of people pissed off, and it isn't because it's bad.
MJPETTY7 - 6/12/2012, 4:01 PM
YES!!!!!!
iJackSparrow - 6/12/2012, 4:02 PM
as the year that comic book films *
Talontd - 6/12/2012, 4:04 PM
Nice @ROR! I take it you saw my tweet??

I LOVE this idea, they are kinda screwing themselves out of the initial blu-ray money (release the theatrical cut, then 6mths later releasing the directors cut), but I sure as heck don't mind!!!

My only problem with this is that JOSS WHEDON specifically stated that there would be no directors cut! I'm working so I don't have time to search it out, but it was around the time all the articles about the running time were out...
kemuael - 6/12/2012, 4:06 PM
I say go for it if they can do it,then do it its an awesome movie without the 35mins so it might be more awesome now :-D

TO THE MIGHTIEST HEROES OF ALL THE NINE REALMS!!!

HAIL AVENGERS!!!!
Talontd - 6/12/2012, 4:09 PM
@Himynameisnik

Ha!!! You remember that too?!?! I knew I wasn't going crazy!
SugarYumYum - 6/12/2012, 4:12 PM
Hm, too soon. It'll be overkill. I'd still go see it though but they should wait until the trail is cold. A limited two week run right before the bluray/dvd release would be good. It'd make people feel like they missed something.
RorMachine - 6/12/2012, 4:13 PM
Talond, I actually didn't..till now! I caught the story at Movies.com hours later. I must pay more attention to tweets!
CoolantTech - 6/12/2012, 4:15 PM
I hope Sony does workit out with Marvel, that would be awesome
LucasMend - 6/12/2012, 4:17 PM
That would be awesome, I would watch it if released here
CyberBishop - 6/12/2012, 4:17 PM
Hell to the yes... BRING IT ON!!!
iJackSparrow - 6/12/2012, 4:17 PM
@Maximus101

I am as much of a Batman fan or even more than you. I love comic book films, and I love them to death. The single people that I keep seeing put down The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man are Nolanites through and through, it's rare when it appears some big Raimi fan not open for the reboot or even one Marvel Films Only purists.

As a Batman fan, I don't feel offended AT ALL about Nolan's Batman fans being treated as a joke. You've deserve it that. The way the majority of the TDK's fanbase acts, made them into a joke. Batman Begins is tied with Spider-Man 2 for me as the second best comic book movies of all time, with The Avengers getting the first spot. But something went terribly wrong with the TDK fanbase and it became a joke, something that I laugh and I have shame of, because it's as bad as the Twilight fangirls. If not worse. The Nolanites got it coming the hate, and this comes from a Batman fan that has Batman as his second favorite character of all time.

I love comic book films. I'm excited as hell for The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises being a back to form to the brilliance that Batman Begins was, The Avengers Director's Cut, EVERYTHING. This year is comic book heaven for people that love comic book movies. The ones that turned this into an arms race was your crew, and I AM a Nolan fan. So instead of wondering why people call TDK's fans Nolanites, ask yourself why Karma is a naughty bitch.
TheWebSlinger - 6/12/2012, 4:19 PM
Batman elitist are really on here arguing about which movie will make more?

What insecure fanboys.
chuckg313 - 6/12/2012, 4:20 PM
go get em!
SebHope - 6/12/2012, 4:20 PM
I call bullshit, joss whedon said their wouldnt be one he cut it to his own perfect cut, he believed those scene wernt added for a reason. And i doubt disney are that bothered about getting to number 1 worldwide.

But it would be fair for them to do so though because even though i dont think they should be added to the original boxoffice as their slightly different movies or formats, the reason titanic is over 2b is that they added 3D boxoffice to the original, without it titanic was only about 1.6 m and avatar before the added special edition costs was originally only 2.3b (a number honestly i dont see getting beat for the forseeable future especially as avatars final take with added special edition 2.7m its insane.)
Coloso - 6/12/2012, 4:21 PM
@Maximus101 *yawn* your nolanite cliches are tired and laboured. Marvels the Avengers brought together characters from their own franchises into a shared universe team-up. Never been done before for comic book movies and broke a ton of box-office records along the way too. Nothing ground breaking about that p-u-l-e-a-s-e!
iJackSparrow - 6/12/2012, 4:22 PM
"I'm honestly looking foward to Batman reboot. Than we will see how many TRUE Batman fans there are here.. The ones that cry and claim Nolan is god are [frick] nuts"

I just want to LIKE this comment so hard but there's not option for it.

Also, newsflash: Nolan's Batman isn't close to the Batman of the comic books AT ALL. The first film is good, but it has flaws. The second film could be called Joker and it would make more sense. Batman is much more than a glorified ninja with an armor. Whenever someone says that Nolan's Batman is very faithful to the real Batman I laugh my ass off.

If you want to see a REAL Batman film, go for the animated film Mask of the Phantasm. That's better than anything that anyone has ever done in live action with him.
mgeoff88 - 6/12/2012, 4:24 PM
As great as this would be, Joss Whedon already made a point of saying there would be no director's cut.

He felt the final cut of the movie was the director's cut. Because it was the best version of The Avengers in his mind.

If this is in fact true, I would gladly pay to see The Avengers with 35 extra minutes added to the initial run time. Hell Yeah!

@Talontd Yah, so this seems more like a rumor. It does make sense though.

If they want the movie to beat Titanic and Avatar, releasing a director's cut of The Avengers could work. I'm all for it.
95 - 6/12/2012, 4:25 PM
I was fairly disappointed by The Avengers— first thing I said after walking out the cinema was: "I need a Director's Cut. I need that Steve Rogers's POV." Especially since 30(?) minutes was cut— they could easily add it to the theatrical cut. The Maria Hill WSC Interrogation deleted scene bookends sounds interesting. Looking forward to seeing this for a second time— now with an added incentive.
TheBaroness89 - 6/12/2012, 4:27 PM
And I would go another 34 times to see it just like this past version.
Coloso - 6/12/2012, 4:28 PM
@3D which is it? You've said you liked Avengers, now you don't...hmmmm.
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