{"id":13778,"date":"2011-04-24T16:19:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T21:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=13778"},"modified":"2011-04-24T16:24:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T21:24:30","slug":"the-avengers-assemble-tomorrow-as-filming-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/24\/the-avengers-assemble-tomorrow-as-filming-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"THE AVENGERS Assemble Tomorrow As Filming Begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After years of promises and films setting up its individual characters, Marvel Studio’s The Avengers<\/strong> will commence principal photography tomorrow, Monday April 25.<\/p>\n

The film’s director, Joss Whedon, made the announcement, in his typical tongue-in-cheek manner, in an email to Whedonesque<\/a> –<\/p>\n

Hi Pumpkins, joss here.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we start shooting (I THINK I’m legally permitted to say that). Day one. That’s right. We’ll be shooting the pivotal death\/betrayal\/product placement\/setting up the sequel\/coming out scene, at the following address:<\/p>\n

[Marvel Lawyers rush in, take Joss’s keyboard, blowtorch a picture of his family like in “Stormy Monday”, drink his milkshake, leave the seat up, fluff his pillows, violently unfluff his pillows, leave]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As you can see from Whedon’s email, it is a bit unclear as to where the cameras will be when they start rolling. The production is set to do a major portion of filming at Albuquerque Studios in New Mexico and Universal Studios in LA. There is also some location work scheduled for New York City and Cleveland, Ohio<\/a>. Granted, Samuel L Jackson, Chris Evans and Clark Gregg were all in Manhattan yesterday<\/a> shooting some pick up shots for Captain America<\/strong>, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that The Avengers<\/strong> will begin production there tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The Avengers<\/strong> will feature Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark\/Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner\/The Hulk, Evans as Steve Rogers\/Captain America, Jackson as Nick Fury, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton\/Hawkeye, Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, Gregg as SHIELD Agent Coulson, Tom Hiddleston as Loki and Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd as Erik Selvig.<\/p>\n

The Avengers<\/strong> will be hitting theaters on May 4, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re just not sure where they’ll be filming.<\/div>\n

[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2461,1641,2429,1671,357,266,684],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-chris-evans","8":"tag-chris-hemsworth","9":"tag-jeremy-renner","10":"tag-joss-whedon","11":"tag-robert-downey-jr","12":"tag-scarlett-johansson","13":"tag-the-avengers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t