'The Avengers' are on the cover of Entertainment Weekly this week!

[littlepunkryo.livejournal.com]

This week's Entertainment Weekly has the first look at 'The Avengers', and the website released some new pictures to coincide with the announcement! I put the above picture above the cut because it's Steve/Tony but also because the cover itself is...not very good. A couple more pictures and the article under the cut.

This Week's Cover: 'The Avengers' -- EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK!

The whole enterprise is falling apart. Egos, tempers, uneasy alliances and bad attitudes are threatening the group, and failure would be catastrophic. Luckily, we’re talking about the actual team of superheroes in the Marvel Studios movie The Avengers, not the cast and crew. In this week’s issue, EW takes a deep dive into the May 4, 2012 movie that will finally unite Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, and Chris Evans’ Captain America — along with Mark Ruffalo’s The Incredible Hulk, Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye and Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow — on the big screen. We use the word “unite” loosely. “Just because they’re super heroes doesn’t mean they’re super friends,” says Renner.

It was a different story with the cast and crew: If anything, they got along too well. Far from home on the Albuquerque set, they had little to do except hang out together, maybe hit a Motley Cruë concert, or go dancing with writer-director Joss Whedon, who says he knew “every dance club in Albuquerque.” Whedon was actually counting on a little bit of friction, since there’s so much in the actual story. “I was like, well, if they hate each other, I guess we can use that,” he shrugs. “But they don’t.”

When he wasn’t out dancing, Whedon was obsessively rewriting dialogue. On the Iron Man movies, Downey was notorious for pushing for heat-of-the-moment script punch-ups (or as he puts it: “I dominated like a rabid, horny gorilla”). And even as part of an ensemble in Avengers, he still nudged Whedon to go a little farther in some scenes. The day EW was on set, Whedon (the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the acclaimed Astonishing X-Men comic book series) was scribbling out new pages of dialogue right before our eyes. Says the director, “There is a weird element of: they handed me one of the biggest movies of all time, and I’m making it up as I go.”

ETA: There's also a gallery of headshots up now.

ETA2: EW keeps adding stuff, there are some comments from the actors about their characters up now too!

ETA3: HQ scans of the article are up now.

Comments

[truthiness-aura.livejournal.com]

Tony uses his to buy real dolls or something. Which, I am honestly surprised he doesn't use them to model his various armors.

Hahaha! Oh, you know he does. Or stuffs them in Clint's locker. I get the feeling Tony only uses his expense account to get a reaction out of Fury/Hill/Coulson.

D'awww, thank you. I wish I could take total credit for it, I feel like I've read it somewhere before? Maybe it's the fandom hivemind at work. (Clint gives Tony constant, relentless shit about it for about a week until Natasha quietly lets it slip that Clint watches My Little Pony when he has insomnia. A truce is declared.)

[gaypornninja.livejournal.com]

So many that he knows the office manager by name, and gets them customized. [I watched the video about the company. I want her job, I would be entertained for life.]

I get the feeling Tony only uses his expense account to get a reaction out of Fury/Hill/Coulson.

This is all that happens. Maybe he buys some slutty underwear to wear for Steve too because that annoys them all and gets him laid. I like to think the red thong was paid for by the US government.

My roommate is a brony. I am constantly torn between mocking and OMG GLITTER RAINBOW UNICORNS. I think Thor would watch with Clint. This truce is with a side of Cap making his disappointed face at everyone?

[truthiness-aura.livejournal.com]

I have not become entrenched in My Little Pony fandom ONLY BECAUSE I have not yet seen any of the episodes. It's only a matter of time. YAY PONIES.

Yes yes, Cap is quietly disappointed with them all. Mostly he is disappointed that Tony doesn't seem to want to be dipped anymore? And things are kind of awkward for a few days, until they have a stammering conversation while Tony's in the lab that ends up with Tony climbing Steve like a tree/ Steve realizing that he can brace Tony up against the wall really easily.

Thor and Clint definitely watch together! Thor finds a shirt with his favorite pony on it and wears it proudly, despite the looks he gets/ the fact that it's way, way too tight. Jane keeps walking into walls when she sees him.

[slythwolf.livejournal.com]

All the episodes are on YouTube! *enable enable*

Thor's favorite pony is Rainbow Dash. She has a thunderbolt cutie mark and is in charge of the weather (well, not just her). Therefore, he buys this shirt (http://www.welovefine.com/product.php?id_product=495).

[truthiness-aura.livejournal.com]

Sat down and watched the first few episodes today. PONIEEEEEES.

(My kingdom for a shop of Thor wearing a Rainbow Dash shirt. My heart, forever, to the person who convinces Chris Evans to put a Fluttershy t-shirt on. AHH SO GODDAMNED CUTE, BRONIES EVERYWHERE)