‘Avengers’ taking shape and Jonathan Mostow speaks on ‘Namor’ film project
A “Sub-Mariner” movie aka “Namor” made me snicker at first. The shallow character would be a super-hero version of “Species” or possible a “Frankenstein” tale, but never anything remotely interesting.
Well, then Universal hired Jonathan Mostow to write and direct the film.
Universal still holds control of “Namor” while Marvel pursues an “Avengers” climax to their growing universe. Collider.com just reported the latest on the film and Mostow’s commitment to a great script.
Mostow, director of “Surrogates” and “Terminator 3” said on camera that it’s tangled in a “shroud of secrecy” as it is in development.
Meanwhile Hayley Atwell (TV’s “The Prisoner”, Woody Allen’s “Cassandra’s Dream”) joins the cast on “The First Avenger: Captain America” as Peggy Carter. In the comic books, Peggy Carter is a French Resistance fighter that hooks up with Steve Rogers and his team of Invaders during World War II. Carter is the aunt of Sharon Carter, an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Rogers’ modern love interest in the current Marvel Comics continuity.
Joss Whedon will direct “The Avengers” and has been given unilateral control to tweek Captain America, “Ant-Man” and basically anything tied to the franchise. Edgar Wright, director of “Ant-Man” tweeted this week that he and Whedon have met:
“Iron Man 2” director Jon Favreau speaks out that Cap and Thor make a cameo in “IR2”:
“I want it to be completely self-contained because a lot is going to happen between now and the next chapter. You’ve got ‘Thor,’ you’ve got ‘Captain America ‘ and you’ve got ‘ Avengers.’ I don’t know how all of that is going to impact this little handmade story of ours that we’ve been doing over the last two films… You want to leave some things open, you know, to be like a food cache for them to set things up that can be paid off later and lean toward where we think things are going… But we can’t leave it like ‘Empire’ where you’re waiting to see it resolved. It’s not a cliffhanger. We had to tuck this whole story in. And that be said, we had like eight different storylines going and opened up the door, especially with both the good guys and the bad guys, for a larger story to be told. That’s just responsible filmmaking. But if you just watch this movie, it’s self-contained. It’s not like ‘Two Towers.’ ” – Favreau
An Italian website “BadTaste” confirms:
Chris Evans as Captain America and Chris Hemsworth as Thor — it’s becoming a reality.
http://movies.ign.com/articles/108/1083707p1.html
http://www.comicvine.com/news/thor-and-captain-america-in-iron-man-2/140920/
