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Jul 19 2011 11:06am
The Avengers Movie Trailer Leaked?

This morning, Ain’t It Cool News posted two very intriguing bootleg recordings of what appear to be trailers for next year’s Avengers movie, as well as the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man reboot.

Check out the Avengers recording while it lasts:

In case it’s been taken down, there’s a description of the action below the cut. Spoilers.

The trailer (in all probability the post-credits sequence for Captain America, opening this week) opens with Steve Rogers working on a punching bag in a gym, eventually punching it right off its chain and flying across the room. Nick Fury comes in the room and asks, “Trouble sleeping?” Cap asks if he’s there with a mission to get him “back in the world,” and Fury responds, “To save it.”

A series of quick cuts follows:

  • The bridge of the helicarrier
  • Loki being led in by armed guards
  • A screen flashing “Next Summer”
  • Black Widow and Nick Fury leading Tony Stark through a hallway as Nick asks him, “Think you’re the only hero in the world?”
  • A screen flashing “Some”
  • Even quicker cuts of Agent Coulson, a helicopter, a car driving through the desert.
  • A screen flashing “Assembly”
  • Quick cuts of Nick Fury, Tony Stark, Captain America, Bruce Banner, Thor, Black Widow, and Hawkeye. (Some of them in different costumes.)
  • A screen flashing “Required”
  • Afterwards, you get quick cuts of all the heroes in action. Thor summoning lightning, Iron Man flying through the sky, Black Widow tasering someone, and Hawkeye firing his bow, and more.
  • The trailer concludes with the Avengers sitting at a round table (Thor standing) as Nick Fury tells them, “Gentlemen, you’re up.”
  • Then the titles appear, followed by a final shot of Tony Stark tapping Thor on the shoulder and quipping, “Mean swing,” which is followed by Thor launching his hammer at the screen.

The Amazing Spider-Man trailer was taken down before we got a chance to see it, but interestingly, it appears that even Spider-Man is going to start getting tied in to the Avengers chronology, as in the reboot, Spider-Man’s parents were agents of SHIELD.

UPDATE: The HD version of the Amazing Spider-Man trailer has been released!

10 comments
Harry Burger
1. Lightbringer
Wait, WHAT? When has Spiderman/Peter Parker ever had parents? Wasn't he raised by his aunt and uncle? UGH, I hate when they mess with a good thing. Having his parents be special takes away from the allure that ANYBODY could come from humble beginnings to become a hero, it's all a matter of luck who gets the special spider bite.
John R. Ellis
2. John R. Ellis
Well, in the original comics, Richard and Mary Parker were recruited by Nick Fury into the C.I.A.

Making them full SHIELD agents isn't all that major a change, really.
John R. Ellis
3. John R. Ellis
Lightbringer: Peter's parents being secret agents was established way back in 1968.
John R. Ellis
4. Christian O.
But isn't the Spider-man film a Columbia Pictures production and Avengers a Marvel Studios/Paramount Pictures production? They can't tie it into something, they don't own.

And isn't the entire business-point of The Amazing Spider-man film that they don't want the property license to revert back to Marvel Studios?
John R. Ellis
5. John R. Ellis
The Avengers is now a Disney co-production. (Disney promised Paramount something in exchange for making that one of their releases. I forget what.)

There are possibilities. It could be Sony asked nicely to for the rights to refer to SHIELD in passing (Yeah, sure), or it could be that his parents are still CIA but whoever saw the teaser misidentified them as SHIELD because that's the normal espionage group people think of when they see anything Marvel.
John R. Ellis
6. Christian O.
I fucked that up, Avengers is of course a Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Pictures film, and the earlier ones were Marvel Studios independent project that were bought for distribution by Paramount Pictures. Whereas The Amazing Spider-man, contrary to Thor, Captain America and the second The Incredible Hulk film, is primarily controlled by Columbia Pictures.
John R. Ellis
7. Edgewalker
@lightbringer,

Spider-Man has parents...he had to be born, right? And they died when he was younger. So they will likely be dead in this one. Relax.
John R. Ellis
8. John R. Ellis
I think Sony plans to retain the film rights to Spidey into eternity, so long as they keep making so much money.

That said, after they've refused to allow Spidey to even cameo in any of the Marvel Studios flicks, it is most curious if Marvel is allowing the usage of SHIELD.
John R. Ellis
9. John R. Ellis
Just watched the trailer.

There is no mention of SHIELD, but it seems the Parkers are secret agents of some sort.

The absence of Peter's birth parents is something normally not deeplyaddressed in the comics, cartoons, movies, etc. Because, well, May and Ben filled the role so nicely.

Making that an important element of the reboot would certainly set it apart from what came before.
Cole Dowden
10. cnote56
Can't wait to see this one. I was mildly impressed with Thor and the rest of the Super-hero movies have been ok.

Why take it down? Like we all don't know it's being made.

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