Marvel Pictures' office in Burbank is a small two-story building, and it's hard to imagine that this is the studio that has produced some of the world's biggest hits, but rather like the kind of movie studios run by Hollywood stars that can go out of business at any time.

On a new Monday, it became a gathering place for the heroes of the surprise, and the paparazzi, who followed a few celebrities, almost broke the shutter of the camera.

Black Widow Scarlett? Johnson, Pepper Gwyneth? Paltrow, Iron Man Robert Jr.? Donnie, Hulk Mark? Rufag, Hawkeye Jeremy? Reina, Samuel the One-Eyed? Jackson......

And Chris, the god of thunder that has not been released, but is already widely known? Hemsworth, Rocky Tom? Hiddleston.

In the end, the paparazzi captured Ryan, who appears less and less in front of the media? Jenkins, this is Captain America.

What are they going to do?

More and more entertainment reporters gathered here, and those with lively heads immediately thought of the big plan of Marvel Comics, could it be that the Avengers began to assemble?

A reporter from the Los Angeles Times, relying on years of good cooperation, tried to stop Ryan.

"Mr. Jenkins."

He took advantage of the fact that the bodyguard had not pushed him away, and shouted loudly, "May I ask if "The Avengers" is about to start?" ”

Waving his hand to the bodyguard and letting the reporter come to his side, Ryan replied happily, "That's right, the strongest team on the planet is going to be assembled." ”

As Ryan answered questions, more reporters rushed to him, throwing out all sorts of questions.

answered a few casually, Ryan hurriedly walked into the office building of Marvel Pictures under the cover of bodyguards, and the reporters behind surrounded Jos, who had just gotten out of the car? Wheddon, the director of "The Avengers", who has long been announced by the surprise side, is not as lucky as Ryan.

The entertainment reporter threw out one knife-like question after another. Most of them are skeptical voices, after all, Jos? Although Whedon has a good resume, his last film, Firefly, was a hodgepodge of complete failures.

Listening to the questions asked by the reporter, Ryan walked towards the conference room on the second floor under the leadership of the front desk staff.

Although "The Avengers" is a movie that many comic book fans and superhero fans have been waiting for, in the minds of most industry insiders, this movie is not a sought-after bait, and the reason is actually very simple - too many heroes, too many different superpowers, too difficult to mix together.

For example, Marvel initially leaned towards Jon, the director of "Iron Man"? Fei Ru, the other party not only pushed down the job. Also personally called Ryan to explain.

"I couldn't direct the film because it was so hard. I created a high-tech Iron Man in the movie, but now he's fighting the Avengers, and there's mythical characters like Thor, and some supernatural abilities that don't fit in with high-tech. It's actually very difficult to mix these elements together. In the comics, it may be okay to express it like this, but in the movie, I can't shoot it like this. ”

Frankly speaking, "The Avengers" is also a hodgepodge, and Joss who once messed up a chowder? Whedn. There are certainly a lot of lessons to be learned.

Walking into the conference room, Ryan greeted Robert Jr. who came over to say hello one after another. Donnie and Samuel? Jackson and the others nodded, and then walked over to the two people who were sitting still.

"What are you talking about?"

Unlike those who are only in a working relationship, these two have been friends for many years. Ryan pulled a chair over and sat down next to Scarlett, "Seems to be warm?" ”

"Gwynnie complained to me that Black Widow stole the limelight from Pepper in Iron Man 2." Scarlett shrugged, "So she strongly urged me not to appear in Iron Man 3 again." ”

"Scarlett." Gwyneth? Paltrow brushed off his long blonde hair. "You should have a standalone Black Widow series."

"I think I should win an Oscar for Best Actress first." Scarlett looked at Gwyneth and whispered.

"You shouldn't say that to me." Gwyneth pointed to Ryan, "The guy who can help you get the Oscar is over there." ”

These were all jokes, and Ryan had a few words of laughter with the two. Kevin, CEO of Marvel Pictures? Fig and director Jos? Whedon walked in, and they came over to greet Ryan before calling everyone to a meeting.

This is the preparatory meeting of the crew, there is nothing special, in fact, most of the affairs, as early as when the script is handed over to the relevant people, communicate with them, the preparatory meeting is more like a meeting and coordination meeting, and the main creative staff may have problems with face-to-face communication.

Group drama is a very troublesome thing, there are many characters in the film, and each character is a "popular star", and the screenwriter cannot evenly distribute the scenes, so it is inevitable that there will be a phenomenon of "favoring one over the other", which is easy to cause open and secret battles between various actors.

Fortunately, most of them are male actors, and the fights between men are not as entangled as women.

In order to prevent those bad things that may occur in the future from hindering the filming, after the routine reading of the script, Ryan deliberately stood up and said a few words.

"Cinema is the art of regret, no matter what aspect or when, regret will be left behind. In terms of plot, Marvel, Jon and the writers have done their best and tried to average it out as much as possible. ”

Sweeping his gaze over everyone in the conference room, Ryan said sternly, "But unfortunately, this is an unrealistic idea. Therefore, some superheroes can only be used as supporting roles in this movie. ”

Ryan's voice just fell, Kevin? "But it doesn't disappoint, because there's a lot of action in the film, and even though there are so many superheroes together, the film is still an action movie." Just pay attention to the big action scenes, because that's the flesh and blood of this movie. ”

In fact, these people can't say anything on the surface, Ryan's Captain America doesn't have many scenes in the script, although it is the brain of the Avengers, it is definitely not the most brilliant one, and it is even more like an ornament.

In this regard, Ryan, as the biggest person in the entire crew, did not complain, and the others couldn't say anything.

This is a normal thing, when a group of superheroes gathers together, it is inevitable that some people will stand out and some people will be reduced to decoration.

According to the setting of the script, Iron Man Tony? Stark definitely took advantage, humorous, venomous and conceited, and finally became a "fighter" among superheroes because of his courage to dedicate himself, in addition to taking on various most dangerous combat missions, Iron Man also gave full play to the huge energy of comedians, all kinds of ridicule, all kinds of "no shape".

To be precise, there is a clear division of labor in the script, Iron Man is responsible for playing treasure, Captain America is responsible for playing handsome, Black Widow is responsible for showmanship, One-Eye is responsible for scheming, and Hawkeye is responsible for showing off his arms......

As for Thor, I still continue to abuse me thousands of times, and I treat my brother like my first love.

As for the X-Men, because the independent new "X-Men" series has also been put on the daily basis, they will not appear in "The Avengers" for the time being, and Wolverine, who was originally scheduled to join, is because of Hugh? Jackman insisted on a $20 million salary and had to be temporarily waived by the surprise side.

On the other hand, if there are too many characters, the script is really difficult to measure.

Even, Jos? Whedon once consulted Ryan and Kevin? Feige's Jianyì wanted to remove the annoying character of Thor, but he got a negative answer, after all, what Surprise wanted to make was a film that showed these comic book characters in a panoramic way.

Subsequently, Marvel Pictures held an official press conference on "The Avengers".

As the film's star, producer, and the most critical instigator of the entire grand plan, Ryan naturally became the target of a siege by reporters, and he was willing to cooperate so that the media could hype up the project.

"The film has a very comic script, and it looks like the members of the Avengers are coming out of their respective films, and these things are mixed up to look silly and funny."

Facing the reporter's microphone, Ryan kept the mystery of the movie while also breaking a little bit of material, "There are mythological characters here, American GIs from World War II, and Tony?" Arms dealers and lone rangers like Stark. It's not easy to put these characters together. ”

"Fundamentally, these people don't belong in a movie, and we're going to tie them together with a story that's going to captivate superhero fans around the world."

The film's director, Jos? In the face of questions from many reporters, Whedon talked about the general idea of the film.

"One of the advantages of such a movie is that the audience is very familiar with the characters in it, because they have seen those previous movies, so we don't need to explain or interpret these characters in this movie, we can cut into the plot and tell the story very directly."

"Whether it's the characters' personalities or their positions, it's been a well-known fact for a long time. In this case, we have nothing to shy away from and nothing too much nonsense to talk about. Tell the story directly, without any foreshadowing, so that the audience can see the high from the beginning. tide, has maintained this high sentiment, so it's good. ”

In the cold snap caused by the financial crisis, the news that "The Avengers" is about to start has injected a shot of strength into the somewhat cold film market, and a large number of fans have left messages on the Internet, saying that they can't wait to see characters such as Iron Man, Black Widow, Hulk and Captain America fight side by side.

Although it is not without media that the film will be made into a nondescript hodgepodge, it cannot stop Disney Studios from spending $230 million on the film. (To be continued......)