Is Marvel Studios' Avengers Movie Going To Adapt The Kree-Skrull War? | Techland

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Is Marvel’s movie universe about to skip over the dull parts of each character’s history? A new rumor about the villains in The Avengers suggests that Iron Man, Thor and Captain America’s movie incarnations will leap eight years’ worth of stories in a single bound.

Comic Book Movie is amongst various websites and media outlets to have received rumor that Marvel’s 2012 Avengers movie will not follow comic continuity by having Thor’s half-brother Loki (accidentally) be responsible for the formation of the team, but instead find itself jumping all the way to the Kree-Skrull War storyline from #89-97 of the original comic via a brainwashed and rampaging Hulk that may offer moviemakers a chance to avoid working with Ed Norton again.

For those not well-versed in Avengers history, the Kree-Skrull War sees Earth caught in the middle of an intergalactic war between two alien races, the relatively noble and occasionally-blue-skinned Kree and the untrustworthy shapeshifting Skrulls, who would later go on to invade Earth again in 2008′s Secret Invasion mini-series. According to the rumor, the Skrulls would be the central villains in the Avengers movies – and, yes, that’s plural, because the rumor states that the Skrulls wouldn’t stand revealed until the end of the first movie, with the Kree-Skrull War itself taking center stage in an as-yet-unannounced-but-are-you-really-surprised sequel.

There’s no way to know for sure whether or not this rumor is true. If it is, it’s a risk for Marvel, taking the characters into areas that could overshadow their own individual movies (Would the existence of aliens throw the relatively-realistic balance of Iron Man out of whack?), but one that could pay off by opening up a whole new range of characters and settings for the studio; the same sources behind this rumor also claim that Avengers will introduce Captain Marvel to the movies, a Kree soldier who abandons his race to defend humanity… and, in the process, offers up enough material for his own spin-off movie.

The Avengers is due out May 4th, 2012.

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charlieromeobravo

“Would the existence of aliens throw the relatively-realistic balance of Iron Man out of whack?”

No more than the existence of Norse gods would I imagine.

This rumor sounds kind of cool. It is kind of risky but if it works it would be pretty sweet. I think the best way to handle a big multi-hero movie like this is to just go big.
secretmantra

I wouldn’t worry too much about realism. Make the stories about people that audiences can relate to, while at the same time allowing Cap, Thor, and Shellhead to kick some Skrull ass!

I have to say I much prefer this as a start for the Avengers over the traditional #1 issue story–which let’s face it, is a bit dated.

Also, any chance to introduce Captain Marvel into the mix would be truly fantastic.
gum0nshoe

Honestly, I’m losing faith in the ability for this thing to be done “right” for main stream watchers, aka me.

I don’t really read comics, though I respect them. And as such, I really don’t care about what the original plot lines were or how they were messed up. Hollywood can’t handle a huge number of actors while giving them a lot of face time. You either need to do it in the style of Watchmen, Ocean’s ##, and other similar movies with many actors, or you fail spectacularly like in Transformers. The movie is either a perfect balance of interesting characters you know on a superficial level, but whose group you can throw your support in with -or- its a cluster f-ck of action where you don’t know anything about the people the movie is supposed to be about and bad plot/writing takes over with gimmicks to carry your through, and maybe a couple characters you don’t care about to pull the plot away from where you’d like to care about.

That said, Scarlet’s character in the latest movie, along with hints toward’s Stark the father’s past felt superficial, flaky and just uninteresting. I can’t honestly say I’m looking forward to an avengers movie, and now this whole alien plot line feels exactly like the Transformers plotline. Super badguys we can’t care about to bring people together who have no right being together in any movie.

I am disappointed.
secretmantra

@gum0nshoe:

You’re disappointed in a movie that hasn’t even been made yet? Don’t think you’re being a bit premature, do you? ;^)

I understand what you mean about how characters can read as flat plot devices. We’ve all seen far too many of those. We’ll see what they can come up with …