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New Hulk Marc Ruffalo explains his interpretation of the character:

"He's a guy struggling with two sides of himself - the dark and the light - and everything he does in his life is filtered through issues of control. I grew up on the Bill Bixby TV series, which I thought was a really nuanced and real human way to look at the Hulk. I like that the part has those qualities."

He also confirmed they start shooting this winter. [IGN]

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SuperHeroHype has learned that Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios are planning to start shooting The Avengers in February, 2011 for a May 4, 2012 release.

It was already rumored that it would be around Feb when Marvel would have get things moving to make their scheduled release date, but this confirms it. As SSH notes, the shoot date is not long after Sony will begin filming the Spider-Man reboot in December, and both movies will shoot in LA. Maybe the studios will join forces and give us a Spidey cameo in Avengers? Yeah, maybe not.

The Avengers will be helmed by Joss Whedon(Most likely in 3D..see article below) and stars Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Mark Ruffalo as Hulk, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson.

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In a new interview, Joss Whedon further explained why he wanted Marc Ruffalo for Bruce Banner, giving some cryptic hints about how the Hulk fits into the overall story:

This also has to do with the way the narrative works, but I feel I wanted to come at Banner and The Hulk visually from a new place. And I wanted somebody that had the quality that Mark has which is somebody who has taken hits from life but is not defined by that. He's taken a hit and he stood back up. He's not thinking about himself necessarily. Mark is a very giving guy and actor. When he looks at me onscreen I'm like, "That's me. That's the guy."

He also expanded on his idea that what makes the Avengers compelling is how unlikely their team really is by talking about how difficult it will be to balance out all the movie's characters:

"You know, in a way it's tough and in a way it's the easiest thing in the world because that's what the movie's about. These people don't belong together. There's friction, there's tension, there's drama...oh, wait, I need that for my storytelling, so it's perfect. There's no reason that this crew should be together except that we need them to be. And so I got very excited by this because of how odd it is."

Here's the complete video interview:

The movie will reportedly be shot in 3D. [showbiz 411]

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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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Jeremy Renner confirmed the unsurprising news that he won't be wearing the classic purple costume from the comics to play Hawkeye, which he thinks is all for the best anyway:

"I think it's going to be a little more reality-based. You can kind of tell with Scarlett [Johansson]'s character [in 'Iron Man 2'], it's going to be more of a uniform . . . and not a big purple, comics sort of thing. That's why I think it's more palatable to audiences - there's almost a sense of reality to these superheroes. That's what makes it interesting to me, anyway."

He also says Black Widow and Hawkeye have a "relationship [that] is still to be discovered", which could really mean anything from they're lovers to they share one thirty-second scene together.

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