Five New Hi-Res Photos From The Avengers; Plus Chris Evans Discusses His First Day On Set
Posted 01.28.12 by Ryan
The most recent issue of Empire reveals several images of the Avengers team on its varied covers. Though the covers are mostly made up of individual character posters and banner posters that were released last year, the magazine does include some quotes from Chris Evans (via ScreenRant), who describes what it was like for him to arrive on The Avengers set for the very first time and interact with other superheroes after going solo in last summer's Captain America: The First Avenger.
The first time I came on set and saw other people in costume, it was a night-time scene in the woods and it involved myself, Chris Hemsworth and [Robert] Downey Jr. I had just seen Thor maybe two nights before, so I got on set and I saw Hemsworth in the cape and immediately thought, "God, there’s Thor, I’m looking at Thor," and then I saw Downey Jr. in the suit.
Evans compared the experience of working on The Avengers with being a "little kid."
It [was] amazing. The kid in me would say, "I didn’t get to act with Robert Downey Jr., I got to act with Iron Man." I’d never had that before, where I had seen actors in a film that I was not a part of and then come to work and help them to extend that character’s life. It’s like being a little kid.
In keeping with the movie's promotion the past few months, there are also some new photos from The Avengers, released by Marvel, and this time Cap shows up only once and Thor doesn't show up at all. Instead, the photos mostly concentrate on Samuel L. Jackson as S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury, though Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) also make appearances.
Since the first and only trailer for The Avengers arrived in October, fans have been treated to a steady stream of images from the upcoming comic book adaptation. Two photos released in December focused on Iron Man (Downey Jr.), as well as one that showed Thor (Hemsworth) and Captain America (Evans) fighting back-to-back on a New York street against an unseen threat. A photo revealed earlier this month saw Thor and Cap again perhaps minutes before or after their back-to-back fight, while a photo released almost two weeks later was of Cap alone on the same street.
Written and directed by Joss Whedon, The Avengers also co-stars Clark Gregg as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson, Cobie Smulders as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill and Stellan Skarsgård as Erik Selvig. For more footage of the movie besides the one trailer there are two other versions — one dubbed in German and the other in Russian — both of which offers more looks at the upcoming movie.
Next Showing: The Avengers opens May 4th