‘The Avengers’ Possible Director’s Cut and Spider-Man Team Up
Movie producers suggest that a joint big-screen outing is a possibility. A film producer has hinted that "The Amazing Spider-Man could indeed team up with "The Avengers" in a future movie.
There have also been reports circulating about the planned sequel to the blockbuster hit movie, "The Avengers." Meanwhile, director Joss Whedon is rumored to be reinstating some deleted footage to create a three-hour version of his superhero ensemble film.
Avi Arad, producer of the upcoming "The Amazing Spider-Man" film, told Crave Online that the Marvel comics characters could be united even though the current films are made by different studios. "Everything is possible. If something like that happens, it's great for Disney, it's great for Sony. If the right story comes in, we are now working on Venom first," Arad said.
"It's our first out. So our thinking is in the right direction. Avengers, to me, was an expected success so I never looked at it because Avengers was successful," he added.
It is perhaps not too much of a shock that rumors of a return are circling Joss Whedon's film which has so far made a staggering $1.4 billion globally and currently stands in third place in the all-time list. Filmgoers will then have an excuse to go to see the film again and fortunately, "The Avengers" has something in the bag. Now, the big question will be whether having really any need or desire for a three-hour "The Avengers" movie at cinemas.
Evans' character, Captain America, certainly felt like one of the movie's more disposable characters due to a lack of screen time. Whedon himself said in an interview last April that the excised material was largely about little moments between people and admitted that a three-hour cut might have been self-indulgent.
He seemed happy enough at the time that Marvel allowed him to keep so many little moments. "I thought, 'They're going to make me squeeze this out,' [but that] they never did," Whedon shared. "Once we had the structure down, they really wanted it to breathe and for these things to be as textured as they could be," he added.
That statement suggests that the main force behind the rumors of a longer cut may be about earning more dollars rather than having the artistic validity of the film.
