Made in Hollywood

"Iron Man signed "The Avengers", the superheroes finally meet!"

For the time being, Duke is in a rest period, but the promotion work of Marvel Pictures has not been relaxed. After securing the actor contract of Robert Downey Jr., the related news was released immediately, telling all Marvel fans and movie fans in North America , "The Avengers" is coming.

Avi Allard, CEO of Marvel Comics, also accepted an exclusive interview with The New York Times, "The Avengers will gather all the classic superheroes of Marvel Comics for the first time, including Iron Man, Black Widow, Captain America, Thor and the Hulk, among others, will unite to fight a formidable foe they've never faced before."

Who will this powerful enemy character be? It has become the focus of many people's attention. Marvel deliberately released rumors before, saying that the "Hulk" is likely to become the common enemy of all heroes, but judging from this speech, the Hulk is classified as one of the heroes. , which means that he may not become a "villain" role.

In this era, any film that wants to attract a large enough audience needs publicity.

Although the director of the film must be Duke, Marvel Pictures and Duke have never disclosed this information to the public, so the choice of director, like the actor, has become the focus of Marvel's publicity and hype.

"Marvel Pictures' blockbuster "The Avengers" has new news. The director of "Firefly" Joss Whedon is negotiating with Marvel and is expected to take over directing the film."

In March, one message after another about "The Avengers" was thrown in front of the public.

"It is said that the two parties have already started formal contact, and Joss Whedon is very likely to be the director candidate. However, the director's only film "Firefly" has a poor box office and poor response, which may become a sign of the two parties signing a contract. obstacles."

It was not long before it was revealed that Joss Whedon was the intended candidate for Marvel Studios. There is another news circulating in the media and the Internet, saying that Jon Favreau, the director of "Iron Man 2", may also take over the directorship of "The Avengers".

Under the deployment of Marvel Pictures, Jon Favreau quickly stood up to refute the rumors, ""Iron Man", "Hulk", "Thor" and "Captain America" ​​are all paving the way for "The Avengers" Yes, every director will put some foreshadowing or easter eggs in it. "The Avengers" will be very difficult to shoot, because 'Iron Man' is a superhero equipped with high technology. 'Thor' is a superhero with supernatural powers. Hero, mixing these two disparate things together without compromising the established styles of each would take a lot of brainpower, and I don't think I have the ability to do that."

Although "Thor" will not be released until the summer, the previous four films have already attracted the attention of Marvel Pictures' superhero movies. Not only Marvel Pictures and Marvel Comics are using various methods to hype, Hollywood Many people also took the initiative to draw themselves closer to the direction of "The Avengers". In order to gain more attention.

The director of "Clash of the Titans" Louis Leterrier revealed during the promotion of the new film on the weekend that he is one of the director candidates for the Marvel Comics movie "Avengers".

Louis Leterrier boasted to reporters, "I am on their short list, and it is a relatively high position, I am sure of this. I don't know who the other director candidates are. But I and Marvel Studios has a great relationship and I can honestly say to them and the other candidates that I am the right fit. I love working with Marvel, I love them. They are great."

This has also attracted the attention of many people, but the director is obviously using the opportunity to hype. Having said that, even if Duke had a problem with his head, he would not find a director who can make ancient Greek mythology movies into road movies to helm "The Avengers".

Apart from the director, many actors also joined in the fun. Many people are also taking this opportunity to self-hype.

Like Eva? Longoria and other low-level actors all jumped out and vowed that they would appear in the cast of "The Avengers".

With the passage of time, this huge publicity hype has become more and more popular, frequently appearing on the eye-catching pages of movies and entertainment media.

Robert Downey Jr., who was the first to sign a formal contract with Marvel Pictures, is also fulfilling his publicity obligations. When asked by reporters about the director of the film, he said, "They need someone who is familiar with all the different character series and can bring them together. The guy who put it all together, the CEO of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, is such an overarching guy who knows every book and is involved in every movie, especially Thor And "Captain America", he is deeply involved, he will definitely choose a director who is most suitable for "Avengers", as for who this person will be, I don't know, I only know and love 'Iron Man' .”

Time is getting closer to April, and news about "The Avengers" is flooding all pages of the media.

"Hulk Mark Ruffalo reached an agreement with Marvel Studios on the salary and schedule, and officially signed "The Avengers."

"When Scarlett Johansson walked out of the ICM headquarters, she made it clear that she had signed the actor contract of "The Avengers" and would continue to play the role of Agent Natasha Normanoff, the black widow."

"Captain America Chris Evans has renewed his contract with Marvel Studios and will serve as the brain and commander of "The Avengers"!"

Negotiations between Marvel Pictures and the actors have ended one after another, and the main actors have basically signed contracts. The news about "The Avengers" even overwhelmed those films that will be released in the new summer season in North America.

In late April, a website exposed two concept drawings of "The Avengers". Senberg!

"The special correspondent of this site has been waiting for a whole week in the beach villa area in Malibu, and found these two conceptual drawings from the foreign garbage of the Duke's estate. Although they are only two conceptual drawings, Duke Rosen in the corner of the drawings Berg's signature is enough to explain a lot of problems, this leading commercial director in Hollywood may be the real candidate to direct "The Avengers"!"

The news spread like a viral copy among the Internet and movie fans, and almost everyone believed that Duke was the most suitable director for "The Avengers".

Duke and Marvel Studios did not respond immediately, but waited for their carefully planned publicity offensive to fully ferment.

In fact, throughout April, Duke and Marvel Pictures were in constant communication, and the film could enter the formal preparation stage at any time.

Before the Oscars ceremony, Marvel Comics stuffed a script into Duke’s hands, but unlike in the past, this script only had a framework and an outline, and the motives and behaviors of each character in the film had to be filled in by Duke bit by bit. Go in, and as long as necessary, he can also change the script outline of Marvel.

In more than three months, Duke basically completed the script. After the six main actors signed on, he called them together several times to understand their ideas for their respective roles and make appropriate adjustments. Scarlett ? After reading it, Johnson said that the script is a bit confusing, because many clues are entangled together.

Duke found Anna Prinz and asked her to lead someone to subdivide the script and create a character script for six characters.

This script is based on the Marvel comics of the same name created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The first series of Avengers comics was published in September 1963. The lineup at that time included Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man and Wasp. Captain America joins in issue 4 after being rescued from the Antarctic ice.

As producer Kevin Fitch said, "The Avengers" is more like a disaster movie. The whole theme is very simple. They were caught off guard, and a single superhero couldn't deal with it, so they came forward to convene the "Avengers Alliance" composed of many superheroes to fight side by side and work together to defend the earth.

The story of the Avengers saving the earth can be said to be very clichéd, but it is the type that the public likes, and Duke will not make redundant articles in this regard.

From the perspective of the plot, such a setting is understandable, but in fact the real reason is still due to commercial considerations.

Letting a number of superheroes under Marvel Comics gather not only increases the number of times the first-line heroes are used, but also makes more second-line heroes popular. Disaster.

In order to attract new and old fans into the theater, the six heroes in "The Avengers" are all played by the original actors. The difficult Edward Norton was starred directly by Mark Ruffalo, and the other party also happily signed his name on the actor contract of "The Avengers".

The initial investment of this film is 200 million US dollars. As the largest shareholder of Marvel Comics, Duke, the director, will inevitably be cautious, and has always maintained the standard of slow work and meticulous work in filling the script. Naturally, this is not too high Even now he is still making appropriate adjustments to the script, but he just hopes that when the film is officially approved, the script will be basically finalized.

Of course, there will be many aspects involved in such a group play, and timely adjustments must be made during the shooting. Duke is not the kind of rigid person, and the script will change after the project starts.

On May 1st, Marvel Studios and Duke announced at the same time that Duke Rosenberg would become the director of The Avengers.

At the same time, the film's project launch press conference was officially held in a hotel near the Marvel Studios headquarters in Burbank. (to be continued ~^~)

PS:  Ask for monthly and recommendation tickets!