The Avengers (and Loki) Assemble on Two New Banner Movie Posters
Posted 12.16.11 by BrentJS
With other upcoming superhero movies getting so much attention this month — Warner Bros. released a new teaser poster for The Dark Knight Rises and debuted a 6-minute prologue in advance of select IMAX screenings of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Sony followed the release of a new teaser poster for The Amazing Spider-Man with the launch of an official website containing tons of new images and bios for the major characters, and Columbia Pictures released a new trailer for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance — it's no wonder that Marvel Studios wanted to get in on the action by releasing a pair of new banner posters for its next superhero movie, The Avengers, so that you wouldn't forget that it's also in the pipeline for a 2012 release.
If the new posters look familiar to you, it's because they are basically "remixed" versions of the two banner posters that were released last month, except with the characters arranged differently and the "A" logo that partially obscured each character removed. Additionally, the images of both Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) have been swapped out for images that are more dynamic (and not posterior-centric, in the case of Black Widow).
The Avengers was written and directed by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). The cast includes Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Clark Gregg as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson, Cobie Smulders as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill, Samuel L. Jackson as S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury, and Stellan Skarsgård as Erik Selvig.
Next Showing: The Avengers May 4, 2012