Marvel Presentation From Movie Con

Marvel Presentation From Movie Con

Marvel's teaser footage of Thor, Captain America and The Avengers gets a second showing this weekend at Movie Con in London.

By DogsOfWar - Aug 14, 2010 08:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Avengers
Source: Empire

The third annual Movie Con event is under way in Southbank, London this weekend. Marvel Studios was there to give another showing of the same footage provided at Comic-Con last month. A few new details and possible tip to who's appearing in The Avengers have emerged.


Since Captain America was shooting Kevin Feige was the sole presenter for that piece and spoke of Cap's core value along with casting Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull:





“If it was just about honour for two hours, that might be boring, but this guy wants to be part of the struggle, and he keeps getting turned away but he’s got tenacity and he’s not willing to give up. He says ‘I can do this all day’ at one point when he’s scrawny and again later, because however he looks he won’t give up the fight.”

“Hugo was the only choice for us. Joe knew him from The Wolfman and we’ve wanted to work with him for a while. By the way, they’re all filming today or they’d be here. He’s the most famous supervillain we’ve got, and bringing someone to him with Hugo’s skill is amazing. It’ll be some make-up and some CGI to make him look the part, but that’s coming together at the moment."





The Thor footage was followed by a discussion from Kevin Feige who was joined by Kenneth Branagh and Tom Hiddleston. Here are some of the highlights:

Kenneth Branagh: “We’ve been here this week working on the latest cut of Thor with Kevin Feige, head of Marvel. Our place was to start with trying to understand what die-hard fans would like, but to try to make the film available for people who didn’t know the comics, and not compromise either, which is an incredible challenge. For me it was about the thrill of working on a massive canvas like this, and try to give people the experience of what it might be like to be a Norse god of thunder. One of the things is that you get intrigued by is the humanity of gods, and how much they’re like us. That might sound like nonsense on a Saturday morning, but that’s what we’ve gone for.”

Tom Hiddleston: “I think there are some moments when he’s evil on the outside as well as the inside. I just thought in terms of, what is evil? I don’t think Loki starts out as pitch-black evil; he’s a troubled soul. He’s the younger brother, the unheard voice in the family at Asgard, and he wants to claim his own place in the pantheon. His ambition is an ambiguous thing, he’s wrestling with demons. You don’t play evil, you play what he wants. He wants the love of his parents, he wants respect. The more obstacles in his way, the deeper he goes into a darkness from which he can never return."

Kevin Feige then weighed in on a few topics, most notably stating that Donald Blake was not in the movie because “We didn’t want to have two actors playing Thor in one film – even Stan and Jack had to drop that..."

He also touched on how the movie version of Thor has developed over the years: “In one version he was exiled to Earth in the Viking era. That was before we were our own studio, and the problem we had with it was that the back-and-forth, the dichotomy between worlds wasn’t as apparent. The fun of the comics is that he comes to this Earth in the present day.”




The last piece of footage shown was the Avengers teaser trailer. Feige was asked if Loki will turn up in The Avengers like he did in the original comic book: “Well, the great thing is that anybody we have the rights to could turn up. But that is a character at our disposal."

According to Bleeding Cool who was present at the panel claimed: "Well, he’ll get in The Avengers too I suppose, though they were careful not to actual confirm that... But the tone, expression and body language was screaming 'Yes! He’s in The Avengers.”

The Marvel Studios presentation ended with a taped video message from director Joss Whedon thanking the fans, saying he was still working on the story and promising it’s going to be spectacular.




DogsOfWar- Will Loki appear in The Avengers movie? Unfortunately the cliche holds true-only time will tell but it does appear to be more likely now. Also, as for the confirmation of no Donald Blake, we will most likely see some nod to the character in the movie.
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Urban8er
Urban8er - 8/14/2010, 8:59 AM
LOKI AND HULK!!!!!!!! :D
GreenHalJordan
GreenHalJordan - 8/14/2010, 9:00 AM
good, now SOMEONE FILM THE CAPTAIN AMERICA FOOTAGE!
LucasMend
LucasMend - 8/14/2010, 9:05 AM
Nice, I want some Captain America footage!!!
aztony1975
aztony1975 - 8/14/2010, 9:07 AM
I WANT CAPTAIN AMERICA FOOTAGE!!!!!!!
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 8/14/2010, 9:10 AM
Dammit, wish I had known about this so I could've been there! (or is it an event just for the press!?) Regardless, this all sounds very good. It's got to be Loki/Hulk for The Avengers IMO and I'm glad that it's looking more and more likely! Oh, and that makes perect sense about Donald Blake. He is one of the most pointless characters in comic books!

Now if only someone would confirm the inclusion of Hank and Jan...
DaenerysTargaryen
DaenerysTargaryen - 8/14/2010, 9:11 AM
Me want Captain america footage now!
vanillabear
vanillabear - 8/14/2010, 9:15 AM
why don't they have anything like this in Dublin:( lol
can't wait to see what the captain america footage looks like:D
RedDevil
RedDevil - 8/14/2010, 9:20 AM
The HULK/LOKI thing is a must. It's such a great way to start the Avengers Initiative. Then the sequel can become more cosmic with the inclusion of skrulls,galactic heroes like Nova and Black Bolt,Thanos. Hopefully Janet and Hank will be included if not for the first Avengers film.
Ryden
Ryden - 8/14/2010, 9:20 AM
Donald Blake should just be a name Thor uses when he's lying low.
jazzman
jazzman - 8/14/2010, 9:24 AM
@JoshW

it make sense to not have different actors to play Thor and Donald Blake. but i thought Donald Blake name is still going to be used as a secret identity for Thor.

UnfriendlySpidey
UnfriendlySpidey - 8/14/2010, 9:30 AM
I confirm Starsapphire's comment!

@Josh yeah dude...Hank & Jan are the only ones that still need to show up to the party! There's always hope my friend :D
BIGBMH
BIGBMH - 8/14/2010, 9:35 AM
Captain America footage, please!
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 8/14/2010, 10:05 AM
I still think that there will be a number of surprises in The Avengers movie.
ThaMessenger07
ThaMessenger07 - 8/14/2010, 10:15 AM
I HATE the Loki/Hulk Concept! It just doesn't make sense with the plot that they have built!
marvel72
marvel72 - 8/14/2010, 10:33 AM
the avengers

villains loki,the enchantress take control of the hulk. :)

captain america

need to see some footage please.:|

thor

pleased with everything i heard so far,wouldn't mind to see some more footage.....maybe thor vs the destroyer. :D
MrAlamoRipper
MrAlamoRipper - 8/14/2010, 1:03 PM
Im sure he will have other baddies with him to take on the avengers
Creature
Creature - 8/14/2010, 1:46 PM
I'm so freakin' excited :'D
sexfoodcomics
sexfoodcomics - 8/14/2010, 3:23 PM
Loki would be a cool villian, but at this point i just want to see someone knew on screen like Ultron or something
Upupandaway
Upupandaway - 8/14/2010, 3:24 PM
@ckal- It looks like they're setting up all of the doomsday devices of the Marvel Universe (Infinity Gauntlet, Cosmic Cube, Etc.). I could definitely see that being used in an Avengers movie. The Loki/Hulk thing could be a good red herring for the first act with Hulk joining the Avengers for the final shebang.
Scholes60
Scholes60 - 8/14/2010, 6:26 PM
Wish I could be there!

If you get a chance check out my Marvel fan fiction:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1276881/David_Scholes
and new sci=fi novella:
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Cheers
TayDee
TayDee - 8/15/2010, 1:22 AM
I'm kinda confused, so once Thor lands on earth there just gonna call him Thor or give him some made up name???
Upupandaway
Upupandaway - 8/15/2010, 5:35 AM
@Taydee- Worked for Superman.
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