New Promotional Art for The Avengers Features the "Big Four"
Posted 02.01.12 by BrentJS
The promotional campaign for Marvel Studios' big super-team movie is heating up. The Avengers were featured on the five different covers that graced the issue of Empire magazine that went on sale last week, and Marvel followed this up by releasing hi-res versions of the still images that appeared in the issue, as well as several new images. Yesterday, we got a sneak peek at the new TV spot for The Avengers that will air during the Super Bowl on Sunday. Now, a new piece of promotional artwork for the movie has turned up online that features "live" images of the "Big Four," the four team members who have already received their own solo movies: Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and Captain America (Chris Evans).
The Avengers was written and directed by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Though the plot is still a mystery, it is known that Loki (Tom Hiddleston), the villain in Thor, will team up with an unknown threat with advanced technology — "It's not Skrulls," according to Marvel President of Production Kevin Feige — in his pursuit of the Cosmic Cube, the weapon used by the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) to power his HYDRA soldiers in Captain America: The First Avenger and which was last seen in the possession of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) at the end of Thor. The cast includes Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, 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.
Next Showing: The Avengers opens May 4