Tag: Cobie Smulders

The Pentagon and the Avengers Movie?

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in The Avengers courtesy Marvel.com

  The U.S. Military often works with blockbuster movies by having the latest vehicles appear on the big screen with the stars. The Pentagon quit working with Marvel’s The Avengers. Why? The Defense Department thought one element of the story was too unrealistic. Was it the Norse Gods, alien armada or the Hulk? It was the film’s treatment of military bureaucracy according to a new story in Wired.com.

  SHIELD is an international peacekeeping force led by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson.) The organization doesn’t have a direct relationship with the United States – its more of a global agency. In the film, Fury reports to a Council which appears to be made up of members from various nations. That ambiguity is what made the U.S. Military not participate.

Cobie Smulders in The Avengers courtesy Marvel Films

“We couldn’t reconcile the unreality of this international organization and our place in it,” Phil Strub, the Defense Department’s Hollywood liaison, tells Danger Room. “To whom did S.H.I.E.L.D. answer? Did we work for S.H.I.E.L.D.? We hit that roadblock and decided we couldn’t do anything” with the film.

For the entire story here’s the Wired.com link. 

The film is a good recruiting movie for SHIELD if you can fit in the suits! Here’s hoping a SHIELD movie with Jackson, Cobie Smulders and new agents might happen.

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Avengers SHIELD Agents on Respecting Comics Mythology

  

Cobie Smulders in The Avengers courtesy Marvel Films

 Cobie Smulders brings SHIELD operative Maria Hill to the big screen in Marvel’s The Avengers. Hill was created during the Brian Michael Bendis Avengers run and went up against Nick Fury and Tony Stark. Smulders joins Clark Gregg who’s played Agent Phil Coulson in Iron Man and Thor. The Marvel comic book version of Coulson made his debut in Shattered Heroes – along with an African-American Nick Fury (Jr.)

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  Gregg tells The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision the Marvel movies make a strong effort to be respectful of the comic book source and that resource was on set as he built his character.

 “The fanboys and girls are very interested in [mythology] like, ‘that goes directly against what goes in the comic’,” Gregg said. “And they can’t do that with me. I feel like these movies are designed to respect those comics, so I always made a point of checking out what there was about S.H.I.E.L.D.”

 “The great thing is that the Marvel guys are there and you say, ‘I need a little more background on Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D.,’ and the next day they hand you this thing that any fanboy would die for, kind of an encyclopedia illustrated about the history of S.H.I.E.L.D.”

 

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Smulders says Joss Whedon helped her translate an iconic character.

 “Joss Whedon, he is really hands-on and he wants every character to have a life on and off-screen,” Smulders said. “He is really involved in making sure that every person has their moments. And I really felt like a part of a team – I really felt linked to Coulson and to Fury and especially our role in the film.”

 For the entire interview and a video here’s the Heat Vision link.

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Here’s hoping we might see a SHIELD/Nick Fury movie – here are my thoughts on Marvel stories that would translate to the big screen.

 

SHIELD Movie Would Be More Bond Than Superhero

 

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in The Avengers courtesy Marvel.com

  Samuel L. Jackson has played SHIELD Director Nick Fury in 5 Marvel films. Would movie-goers accept the mission to see a film based on the super spy and his team of operatives? The actor spoke with MTV News about the possibility.

  “I don’t know how much of S.H.I.E.L.D. [Marvel] want[s] to expose…I mean, we’re not superheroes. We’re more of a shadow world. So, it would be more like ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy‘ with good toys—closer to a ‘Bond’ movie than a superhero movie.”

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  After a big ‘save the world’ plot in The Avengers would a SHIELD movie have the star and story power? I say YES! Fury, Black Widow, Hawkeye along with Cobie Smulders as SHIELD officer Maria Hill and Clark Gregg reprising his role as Agent Coulson – you have a great lineup. Secret War by Brian Michael Bendis, about Fury’s covert incursion into Latveria and it’s aftermath would be the basis for a thrilling spy story. 

For the entire interview here’s the MTV News link.

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Who Fights Black Widow in The Avengers Movie?

Marvel's The Avengers courtesy Marvel

  Scarlett Johansson is smoking at Black Widow in Marvel’s The Avengers. The actress apparently took a beating while making the flick. On the red carpet before the world premiere Johansson revealed talked about her stunt work and almost revealed a spoiler to MTV News.

“The stunt sequence that I’ve been the most proud of is probably my fight with…” Johansson stops. “Actually, I don’t know if I can say!”

She looks at someone off camera and asks, “Can I say? I don’t know if I can.”

When MTV News asked her if it’s Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Johansson replied, “No,” and her eyes became playfully shifty as she continued, “All I can say is that I had to fight someone else in this film, and they beat the crap out of me in stunt rehearsals. I have to say I could not believe it.”

This Geek’s Opinion: Wouldn’t it be a cool sequence if Loki -being the trickster that he is – turns Black Widow and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) or Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) against each other?

 

Cobie Smulders on The Avengers Red Carpet

Cobie Smulders on the red carpet for the Marvel's The Avengers world premiere, courtesy Marvel.com

 Imagine being the new kid on the block in Marvel’s The Avengers?

Colbie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) plays one of my favorite characters, SHIELD Agent Maria Hill.

Smulders traded her tight spy uniform for a gown to work the red carpet for the world premiere in Los Angeles.

Here’s the Marvel.com link to watch the entire red carpet including interviews with the stars and more photos.

 

Avengers Maria Hill First Look

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  Fans got a brief shot of Cobie Smulders as SHIELD agent Maria Hill in the new The Avengers trailer. Marvel.com revealed two photos showing Agent Hill ready to support the Avengers Initiative. The Avengers debuts May 4th.

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 Smulders (known for How I Met Your Mother) plays the tough, resourceful agent supporting SHIELD Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson.) Brian Michael Bendis created Hill in his New Avengers run. Hill became head of SHIELD and ally of Iron Man during the Civil War storyline.