The Avengers expectations, the deleted scene, and an additional scene currently being shot?

AVENGERS: What to Expect
by Reymundo Salao

Although it is yet to have its US release on May 4, 2012 and its Philippine release on April 25, 2012, THE AVENGERS already had its red-carpet premiere in Hollywood last April 11. 2012. And it received extremely positive reactions from various notable critics (check out this article to check out the Twitter posts from these critics). There is much positive vibe for the movie that it has made all the Marvel geek world all the more excited.

POST CREDITS
Reports come in that, as expected from any Marvel flick, there's an extra scene at the end of the credits. But this extra scene is found at an earlier portion of the credits; right after the animated star credit sequence, and right before the full credit scroll begins. Which is good because unlike other Marvel movies, you could spare yourself from sitting through the entire full credit scroll to see the bonus scene at the very end of the film.

Reports also speculate the possibility that there is actually an additional scene being shot (after the premiere) to be added to the movie, for its full official release.

EXTRA SCENE?
/Film’s Germain Lussier attended the press junket for The Avengers last April 12 (the day after the premiere). At the end of the press conference with the cast and crew, Robert Downey Jr. made a claim that the cast and crew were going to shoot one last remaining scene that night after the junket.

The crowd laughed, but Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige seemed notably irritated that Downey had made the comment. Could it be that he let the cat out of the bag? Or was Feige just angry that he was starting false rumors, which could lead to undeliverable expectations?

As the crowd was abuzz, Downey responded that he wasn’t kidding. And then, wait for it, said “No more questions!” At that point, the cast and crew exited the stage, leaving all the geek journalists wondering if Downey was joking or was he telling the truth.

Germain had a one on one interview with Feige afterward and asked him point blank if they were filming another scene for The Avengers. Kevin responded “Do you always trust everything Robert Downey Jr. tells you?” So take that for whatever its worth. Note that he didn’t deny the claim, and why would he want people to speculate about something that might not exist — especially if it would leave some fanboys disappointed?

DELETED SCENE
On the other hand, if there is one officially confirmed deleted scene, it was Captain America's reunion with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). If you could recall the events in Captain America: The First Avenger, before Cap went off to fight the Red Skull and his forces, he promised Peggy a date. And of course, that date never did push through (obviously because Cap "died").

In this upcoming Avengers movie, there was supposed to be a scene where Cap had his reunion with Peggy, who is obviously still alive. Unfortunately, that scene wound up on the cutting room floor. Of course it was not an easy decision for Joss Whedon. In an interview with ith the New York Times (via io9), here's what Whedon says:

"One of the best scenes that I wrote was the beautiful and poignant scene between Steve and Peggy [Carter] that takes place in the present. And I was the one who was like, Guys, we need to lose this. It was killing the rhythm of the thing. And we did have a lot of Cap, because he really was the ‘in’ for me. I really do feel a sense of loss about what’s happening in our culture, loss of the idea of community, loss of health care and welfare and all sorts of things. I was spending a lot of time having him say it, and then I cut that."

I had actually wished a scene like that to have been included at the end of "Captain America: The First Avenger" so that it gave that movie a bit more closure to the Peggy subplot, so that he could move on with other matters in the Avengers movie. But anyway, we will probably see this cut on Captain America 2.

For now, we hold our breaths, because we only have ten (10) more days to go before The Avengers movie. See you at the theaters on April 25, 2012!

SOURCE: SLASHFILM