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Screen Rant
July 24, 2010
We’re at Comic-Con 2010 to bring you live coverage of the Marvel Studios panel presentation and unveiling of Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers.
Arguably the most anticipated presentation of Comic-Con 2010, the Marvel Studios panel takes place today at 6pm in Hall H. It is of course the real introduction to Thor and The First Avenger: Captain America.
Screen Rant was present in the first row to give you the
live coverage and share with you all of the major announcements. Check
out what happened play-by-play and how we, the fans, were introduced to
Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye and Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner.
Panel
Geoff Boucher (LA Times) is moderating. Kevin Feige, Marvel president
of production first introduced. Boucher asks him to talk about Thor and Captain America.
- Feige says there was some skepticism that this could happen back
when they announced the line-up of films 2 years ago. At end of this
panel, he promises that skepticism will be gone.
Captain America
Started with a Captain America vignette loaded with 1941
World War 2 footage. It featured text talking about meeting the first
Avenger, overlayed with shapes and colors of Captain America’s shield.
- Silhouette of Captain America shown, then we got quick glimpse of Chris Evans in full costume turning towards camera.
- After the Cap logo is shown, we get quick scene of Captain America whipping the shield at the camera.
Panelists come on stage include Feige, director Joe Johnston, Chris Evans and Hugo Weaving who of course, plays the Red Skull.
- Chris Evans says he started on set 5 days ago. He says it’s been fantastic, he loves the suit and crew.
- Evans says they started early to get his feet wet.
- Evans asked about not knowing much about character and he joked
about audience having feelings on that. At end of day, he’s bringing a
character of the Marvel family to life and he approaches it like other
roles to do the character justice.
- Evans is ripped.
- Johnston reveals he’s a big fan of the Brubaker Captain America.
- Feige explains Evans hasn’t shot any scenes yet of him in costume.
What we saw was from the costume sets. The costume works for the 1940s
period and borrows from the variations of the Cap costume in Marvel
Comics history.
- Evans asked about bringing Marvel characters together. He says he
loves the origin stories coming first so we can learn all about him and
we don’t have to end the story after he becomes the hero and we can
continue with the character and experience his evolution.
- Weaving asked about playing another character wearing a mask that
conceals his face. He’s had one day in the mask already and he says it’s
an “extraordinary” look.
- Feige says they’ve only show 8 days and he references back to when
Sam Raimi first showed the one scene of Peter Parker being bit by spider
in the panel for the first Spider-Man movie after only a few
days of shooting., years ago and then asks if we want to see a scene
from the movie, even though it as the time code still on it. Crowd goes
nuts.
Captain America Footage:
Scene with Hugo Weaving pre-scar searching for Odin’s Jewel with a
Nazi contingent. His voice and accent are awesome and the aesthetic and
tone is very Indiana Jones. It looks good and it ends with Red Skull
showing his intelligence and finding the hidden jewel which fires out a
very bright glow at Weaving’s character.
Thor
Kenneth Branagh was just introduced on stage! He explains he wasn’t
too familiar with American comics. He knew Batman and Spidey but he was
very interested in Thor, from its story to its name. “It completely
captured (his) imagination.”
- Clark Gregg, Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Kat Dennings, Natalie Portman, Chris Hemsworth all introduced. Fans are loving it.
- Hemsworth is asked about his relationship with father character, Anthony Hopkins’ Odin. Nothing but braise and excitement.
- Portman asked about her character and she explains is good because
she’s not well-defined, they can add new colors. She also likes the idea
of being a scientist without being the stereotype “cleavage with
eyeglasses” scientest often portrayed in films.
- Kat Dennings talks about Darcy, a character not from the books who
in the movie, is Jane Foster’s assistant of sorts. She’s awkward on
stage.
- Tom Hiddleston talks about playing Loki, who he describes as the
“agent of chaos” and the “damaged younger brother” who’s overlooked and
full of jealously. He says Loki is the character who could of done it
but wasn’t chosen to – overlooked as Thor is chosen because, as he
jokingly described, “has the bigger guns.”
- Clark Gregg described as the “glue of the Marvel Universe.” He says he loves it, that’s the glue to be.
- Gregg talks about with Iron Man 2, how they quickly threw in the
mention of his character, Agent Coulson, leaving to go to New Mexico. He
asked why and they responded “hasn’t anyone told you? Thor!”
Thor Footage:
- Wow. Where to start. We get to see glimpses of everything and the
footage should turn the opinion of skeptics of stills released over the
last few weeks.
- Scenes include Frost Giants, lots of shots of Asgard, of the whole
land and interiors. We get shots of Sif, The Warriors Three, Loki, and
pretty much every key character of Asgard you can think of.
- On Earth, we see Thor discovered, see him interrogated by Agent Coulson after breaking out and taking out all of the guards.
- We see lots of combat, including a few moves of Thor with the hammer.
- There’s lots of Odin, him banishing Thor to Earth, him dying as Asgard looks to Loki to lead the land.
- Conversations between Jane Foster and Thor touch on what they
consider Mythology is actually science but that in Asgard, it’s a
combination of both.
- One of the final shots is the Destroyer suit in the middle of the
desert confronting a bunch of SHIELD agents, led by Agent Coulson. Clark
Gregg is really stepping it up and his character is both funny but
stern when need be. He’s become an integral part of the
One of the audience members asked about Edward Norton until he was
muted. They explain the usual, that Hulk is bigger than an actor and
that he will live on. Feige hints that the panel is not over yet…
- When he first got the role, Hemsworth read a ton of comic books, Norse mythology.
- Audience member asked about hope for Marvel Studios bringing out the
R-rated properties and points to his Punisher shirt. Feige says Frank
Castle says Frank Castle (Punisher) is back under the roof of Marvel and
that they want to bring him back into the fold “shortly.”
- They’re showing us the footage again and the panelists are coming to the floor to watch it with us.
The Avengers
- Just when you thought it was all over (we really didn’t) Feige asked crowd if they mind staying for a bit and we were shown an Avengers video of the logo narrated by Nick Fury.
- Samuel L. Jackson then came on Stage and started introducing members
of The Avengers. Agent Coulson, followed by Scarlett Johansson, then
Chris Hemsworth, then Chris Evans then Robert Downey jr.!
- Robert Downey Jr. takes stage and talks about Inception being the
most ambitious film ever until he realized they’re making The Avengers
and that Marvel is bringing all of their top superheros together for one
combined project.
- But that’s not enough… playing Clint Barton… Jeremy Renner! Then,
“reprising the role of Bruce Banner” Robert Downey Jr. introduces Mark
Ruffalo!
After coming together front stage for photos and waving to the crowd,
the epic cast heads off stage and that ends the Hall H film
presentations of Comic-Con 2010.
If you’re into the Marvel vs. DC debate, Marvel blew everything away
with this presentation. I’ve never seen so much talent in such a short
amount of time. Everyone here is ecstatic.
And here is your first look at The Avengers, all together for the first time:
The cast of 'The Avengers' (click for larger version)
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Thor opens May 5, 2011; The First Avenger: Captain America hits July 22, 2011 and The Avengers is scheduled to debut May 4, 2012.
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