Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments
The Avengers
6/24/08 - Iron Man director Jon Favreau said that Marvel
Studios has its proposed lineup of superheroes for a proposed
Avengers movie. Favreau told the newspaper that the team's
lineup has changed throughout the years, "but the ones Marvel is
talking about now are Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man and Iron
Man. I would love to see that." Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios'
president of production, confirmed to the paper that he's working
toward the day when "heroes can cross into each other's adventures
and occasionally team up if there's a foe too great for any one of
them to handle." Feiger and screenwriter Zak Penn are uniting to get
Avengers in theaters by summer 2011.
05/23/08 – Kein Feige confirmed the release date for The Avengers as July 1, 2011
05/06/08 – Marvel announced on May 5th that it will release a sequel, Iron Man 2, and a film version of Thor in the summer of 2010, followed by what it's calling an Avengers-themed summer in 2011, with the release of The First Avenger: Captain America (working title) and The Avengers. The company, which is producing its own slate of movies based on Marvel Comics characters, added that it does not plan to release a film in 2009. Iron Man 2 will open on April 30, 2010, followed by Thor on June 4, 2010. The two Avengers projects will follow: The First Avenger: Captain America on May 6, 2011, and The Avengers in July 2011.
12/31/06 - Marvel Studios has begun the process of bringing the elite superhero team the Avengers to the big screen. Zak Penn, who wrote the screenplay for Marvel's upcoming The Incredible Hulk, is slated to pen the live-action adaptation that would be titled The Avengers. It is unclear which heroes will be brought together for this film. This one will be a while.
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