In the latest issue of Empire Magazine, the head honcho of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige briefly discussed the Joss Whedon-directed highly-anticipated film The Avengers. The transcription courtesy of SuperSAINT, doting on the first set image depicting of cast chairs, the "surreal" first day of filming, as well vaguely on what the superhero ensemble will explore, check out what Feige had to say.
"We wanted to do a tease of an image - Let people know that the movie has started filming, and it's real. We thought it would be fun to have the cast chairs -- that's the big selling point of the movie, that these people are together on the set" (apparently chairs for Hawkeye, Fury + Widow are there, but "just out of frame")
"I did get to New Mexico on the 1st day of shooting. Right off the bat, it involved a couple of characters who'd been in other movies meeting for the first time" he recalls. "It was a little surreal, realising it was actually happening"
"Iron Man and Thor have defeated threats, and in a couple of months Captain America will hold his own - So what in the world could they go up against that requires all of them to get together for a challenge that they may or may not succeed against?" Feige won't confirm or deny what that threat is...
"Everyone has more than their own fair share of screen time, interaction and arcs in this film - we didn't want anyone to get a short shrift - it's a big story and big movie. Everyone has room to have their own stories, but the primary one is their interaction together. That's where the fun really is!"
Marvel's The Avengers picks up when an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security. And Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Clark Gregg, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Tom Hiddleston & Stellan Skarsgård, the film releases May 4, 2012!