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Black Widow Not the Only Woman in Whedon's The Avengers

by Edward Douglas
August 23, 2010

Plot will cull from many different comics including The Ultimates

The excitement for what Joss Whedon might bring to  The Avengers certainly exploded last month when the entire cast of the movie appeared on the Marvel Panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego, but one thing long-time "Whedonholics" were wondering was what the man behind "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Dollhouse," two very female-centric television shows, would be able to achieve with a superhero group made up mostly of men.

Talking to the Sunday Herald Sun (via Moviehole) for his upcoming "Australian tour"--apparently, Joss Whedon's rock star status has him touring now--Whedon confirmed that Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow would not be the only female role in the movie:

"It is true that the movie is only going to have one female Avenger, but she will not be the only female character," he told them, which makes us think some of the women from the other Marvel movies--maybe Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts from the "Iron Man" movies?--would be making appearances in the movie.

Whedon is working hard on rewriting the script but he remained mum on what the plot would be, though he did say that it would incorporate a number of different Avengers stories, both from the original comics and the "Ultimates" version of the characters: 

"It will be a new story that has many things from different arcs of the comics in it. There is no one Avengers story that you can just do the way that you can do the origin of Spider-Man. You really have to cull from the original and The Ultimates, which is one of The Avengers titles."

So we don't really know that much more except that The Avengers  will continue the path paved by the previous Marvel Studios movies rather than being entirely faithful to any one version of the comic books.

 The Avengers is scheduled to open May 4, 2012.

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rocky
August 23, 2010
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Bullwinkles
Not too excited for this news... would be if he had mentioned a different female super heroe would be in it. Even if it had to be Wasp.
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clecks
August 23, 2010
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Wasp
Yeah, you would have thought wasp will be there also.
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cs
August 23, 2010
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You can't beat the plot from Avengers 1 with Loki manipulating the Hulk, bringing the Avengers together.
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Danizzle
August 23, 2010
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It would be neat if we get to see a bunch of up and coming super heroes, including wasp, ant-man, ect... You know something after the credits like that to get our mouth watering for Avengers part 2
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Danizzle
August 23, 2010
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Correction it would be neat to see a bunch of up and coming super heroes trying out for the Avengers in an after credits scene.
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HFactor
August 23, 2010
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Natalie Portman already claimed she wasn't asked to be in Avengers.
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Buck Starbuck
August 23, 2010
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Avengers Assemble!
I hope that Whedon does not let his love for writing female charactors take his focus off of the boys. Also, the Loki controlling Hulk story is perfect. Stick with that and build from there.
I cannot wait for this movie (unlike "X-Men no class").
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Krisgreet
August 23, 2010
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Could be Betty Ross as she is a main character in The Ulitmates series. Wonder if they'll bring Liv Tyler back if it is her.
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