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CLARK GREGG At SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014

Clark Gregg in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. courtesy Marvel
Clark Gregg in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. courtesy Marvel

Clark Gregg manages to fight evil Hydra agents and super villains on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and write and direct his own film.

 

The Seattle International Film Festival just revealed a surprise addition to the 2014 lineup.  SIFF favorite Clark Gregg will return to Seattle with Trust Me, a “biting satire about life in Hollywood and the struggle to keep dreams of greatness alive.”

 

Gregg plays Agent Phil Coulson on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and in The Avengers and is a frequent collaborator with Joss Whedon. Gregg brought his directorial debut, Choke, to SIFF 2008 after winning the Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast at the Sundance Film Festival. Continue reading CLARK GREGG At SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014

Why Joss Why? Avengers Death Explained – SPOILER WARNING

Marvel's The Avengers courtesy Marvel

  If you haven’t seen Marvel’s The Avengers yet you may not want to keep reading this post.

 

WARNING

 

SPOILER AHEAD

 

SERIOUSLY

 

IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE AVENGERS MOVIE DON’T KEEP READING

 

OK

 

HERE IT COMES

 

 Joss Whedon always kills the ones we love and we love him for it. Death has meaning, impact and drama in Buffy, Serenity, Angel, and The Avengers. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes needed someone to avenge. Agent Phil Coulson had to die. But Whedon tells io9 it wasn’t completely on him this time.

  In our first meeting Kevin Feige said, this is what we’re gonna do and I said, “Oh but you have to go out there and tell everybody that it was your idea because this is going to get me so much s—. Because they are all going to be like, “Oh he did it again!” It was stipulated from the beginning, and I completely agree that it was the right thing to do, and so did Clark. Who said in the early days, when I was busy apologizing for it, “In a movie like this, with what’s going on if there isn’t some toll, it’s just irresponsible story telling.”

This Geek’s Take: It never occured to me that Agent Coulson would die because I was so caught up in the movie. Phil, you will be missed. I’m glad Coulson will live on in the Marvel comic universe.

 

Chris Evans on Captain America’s Role & Suit in “The Avengers”

Chris Evans as Captain America in Marvel's The Avengers courtesy Marvel Films

  Captain America: The First Avenger left off with World War II era super soldier waking up in modern-day New York. Marvel’s The Avengers picks up Steve’s story as a man out of time. Chris Evans reprises his role as the wholesome hero who lives by a moral code.

  “Cap is struggling to find his footing in a modern-day,” Evans tells Marvel.com. “He’s a fish out of water [and] kind of stuck in his old mentality and his old ways. The jet and all the technology of S.H.I.E.L.D. and [Iron Man’s] suit–that does blow his mind, but the thing that he’s really at odds with is…the changes in society. Morals and values, and the way people interact.” With the modern age comes a new suit for the Star Spangled Avenger. Evans appears to be happy with the SHIELD made version of his iconic uniform.

  “The last [suit] was…very difficult to move in,” he confesses. “This one actually looks much more like the comic book. A little toastier, but it all looks great. Doing ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ was strange because you look around and you’re the only super hero walking around. [Then] the first day on this set, Hemsworth’s in his cape and Downey’s got the armor. Just on a personal career level, the stuff I’ve been able to do in this movie…has been the most geeked out I’ve ever felt on a movie set.”

For the entire interview here’s the Marvel.com link.

Marvel’s The Avengers opens May 4th and the Captain America sequel is slated for April 4, 2014.

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?

 

The Avengers Secret Weapons

Marvel's The Avengers courtesy Marvel

  A God. A Super Soldier. A Genius in a High-Tech Suit of Armor. But Earth’s Mightiest Heroes need more than just the big guns to get it done. When the Avengers need stealth and razor-sharp focus – they can count on Black Widow and Hawkeye.

  Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johansson play the Avengers born without super powers but are still power players on a mission. The two stars are featured in a new interview on Marvel.com

“We are humans with high skill sets,” Renner said. “[Hawkeye and Black Widow] fight well together…and they complement each other.”

“Both of us fight hand-to-hand…but we’re fighting in a different way than everybody else. We do a lot of fighting on the ground,” added Johansson.

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

In the comics, Hawkeye and Black Widow are currently starring in Rick Remender’s Secret Avengers. Hawkeye leads the covert team. Both characters will appear in Avengers Vs. X-Men and AvX: Vs.

SHIELD Agent Coulson on The Avengers

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  Clark Gregg plays it cool and professional as SHIELD Agent Coulson in the cinematic Marvel universe (Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor). Gregg tells Collider he’s a cut of The Avengers.

  “I’m very excited for people to see this movie. I think the fans, like me, will be as excited as I was, when I saw it. From the minute I read Joss Whedon’s script, I thought, “Oh, man, this is going to be fun to do!” The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you’ve been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.”

For Gregg’s entire interview including his voice work on Ultimate Spider-Man here’s the Collider link.

Tom Hiddleston on The Avengers

Tom Hiddleston as Loki & Chris Hemsworth as Thor in Thor courtesy Marvel

  I’m ready to see Tom Hiddleston ooze evil as Loki when he reprises his Thor role in The Avengers. The star won Best Newcomer at the Empire Awards and spoke about Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in one big movie.

“‘Avengers‘ is the first of its kind because it’s a film about not one superhero, but seven or eight, all of whom are beloved already because of their first outings,” Hiddleston told Red Carpet News. “I’ve seen it once and it was a very rough cut, but it’s absolutely thrilling. It grips you on the edge of your seat from the get-go. It takes itself extremely seriously one moment and doesn’t take itself seriously at all in the next moment. It has a huge sense of humor but also real heart and action. It’s more fun than should be allowed.”

Thanks to Comic Reel.

Joss Whedon on Iron Man’s Avengers Suits

 

Iron Man from Marvel.com

  While promoting The Cabin in the Woods and checking on Alan Silvestri’s score for The Avengers, Joss Whedon talked with Empire magazine. Sharp eyed fans noticed Tony Stark’s armor on the Empire cover is different from his solo films. The director confirmed Tony will have more than one suit in the film.

  “Marvel said, ‘We like to see the suits evolve,'” he says, “and I said, “Great! Then you’re going back to the circle because the triangle is ass’. I’m a classicist. The circle has meaning, the triangle does not.”

  Check out the clever clip here.

Marvel’s The Avengers  is out on May 4th. The Cabin In The Woods starring Chris Hemsworth (Thor) scares up audiences on April 13.