Marvel’s ambitious plans to bring an Avengers movie to theaters is quite laudable, but how do they get a whole group of superheroes into one film and get them to work together?
"Our instincts are definitely leading us towards some specific directions for it. It will be a challenge. But I think what we’ve done in the past, and particularly my experience on the X-Men films where we balanced, you know, X-Men 2 had half a dozen villains and more than a half a dozen heroes. And Avengers won’t have that many characters in it," explained Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios president, to IGN Movie.
He added that each character will "get their due" and that he is excited about "scene interactions" between the actors and the characters they will play.
"I think that it’s safe to assume that the world will be populated by characters that the fans of the comics will recognize beyond the solo movies that have come out, but at the same time I want to be very, very cautious of overdoing it and very, very careful not to just cram in," he said. "I don’t want it to be a movie where every five minutes a character walks by and people smile at the cameo. I really want it to be an ensemble adventure that stands on its own."
The Avengers film is due out July 2011. More films are expected before then, including Thor and a sequel to this year’s successful Iron Man.
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