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Zak Penn Talks About Collaborating for The Avengers Movie
FirstShowing.net —
... . Penn has been attached as the screenwriter of Marvel's Avengers movie for a long time, and now that it's slated for 2012, he's starting to work on it (again). Penn appeared on a panel as part of the Los Angeles Film Festival last night and SciFi Wire has a report on some of the things he said in relation to The Avengers. He's meeting with Marvel and the screenwriters of the other big upcoming movies to "piece together the storylines." ...
Zak Penn Talks Continuity For Avengers Movie
/Film —
... Screenwriter Zak Penn has long been attached to Marvel’s Avengers movie, and he’s recently begun talking about the project, if only a little bit. SciFiWire quotes him from a panel at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where he spoke briefly about one of the most daunting aspects of the project: continuity. ...
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... In what is sure to warm the hearts of fanboys, Zak Penn ("X2," "X-Men: The Last Stand," "Elektra" and "The Incredible Hulk") revealed his attempt to adapt Marvel's "The Avengers" film: "We all have the best intentions, and it still might suck." [SciFiWire] ...
Avengers Screenwriter Admits The Movie Might Suck
Cinema Blend News —
... work very hard to make sure that, when The Avengers comes out in 2012, it actually fits in with the stories told in the individual Iron Man , Captain America and Thor movies. And pity screenwriter Zak Penn, who seems to be the fulcrum of the whole operation as he writes the Avengers screenplay and meets with the creators of the other movies-- even when Captain America has yet to even be cast. During a Los Angeles Film Festival panel called "Graphic Explosion" (picked up by Sci Fi Wire ), Penn practically seemed to be tearing his hair out right onstage. "I'm taking a ...
Zak Penn Talks 'The Avengers' and Fox's Failure to Crossover
Cinematical —
... SciFi Wire caught up with Penn right as he was on the verge of another Marvel meeting. With Iron Man 2 well underway, they're beginning to knit together the continuity and overlap the plotlines: "I'm taking a meeting next week with the Thor and Captain America people, and we are all going to get together, and I will see what is going to happen. I'll see where they are leaving the characters; it's pretty complicated. ... There's a board that is tracking what is happening. [We'll see] how this movie overlaps in that movie ... Marvel is autonomous now. It ...
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Reel Talk —
... When a film’s screenwriter can’t confirm the pic is going to be great, you might have a problem. According to Sci-Fi Wire, during a question-and-answer session at the Los Angeles Film Festival, “The Avengers” writer, Zak Penn said, “It's hard to make a good movie … we all have the best intentions, and it still might suck.” Penn better get that negativity out of his head or the film will stink! His frustration seems to have come from his experience writing the last two “X-Men” films during which he was denied permission to get the Fantastic Four involved. ...
Zak Penn talks The Avengers
Filmstalker —
... is writing the screenplay, and he is enjoying the difference in writing for Marvel, as opposed to writing for the last two X-Men films. He told SciFiWire , through ...
Penn Already Hard at Work on Avengers
Latino Review —
... to see that they're all connected, not like the Fantastic Four can't come into the X-Men world, like I was told. I'm taking a meeting next week with the Thor and Captain America people, and we are all going to get together, and I will see what is going to happen. I'll see where they are leaving the characters; it's pretty complicated. ... There's a board that is tracking what is happening. [We'll see] how this movie overlaps in that movie."
For more from the panel head over to SCI FI Wire.
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