Story updated: 11/7/07 @ 11:06 AM
With casting of the "Justice League of America" movie well underway, one of the biggest resulting questions is whether the Avengers, Marvel's equivalent to the JLA, will ever see their own cinematic chances realized.
To get an opinion directly from the source, we sought out Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief, to get his take on the legendary superteam and what he thinks the chances are of getting them assembled on the big screen.
"Strictly speaking as a fan, who wouldn't want to see [an Avengers movie]," Quesada enthused, adding that for his money, "who wouldn’t want to see just two of the characters teaming up...like a Spider-Man/Wolverine movie," before placing the caveat that the chances of that happening would be "pretty astronomical."
But with the company controlling more of its own characters under the Marvel Studios label than it ever has before, an Avengers film is arguably more likely than a two-character team-up. And while Quesada wouldn't shed any detailed insight into the likelihood of it happening, he did offer up his own dream roster for an Avengers big-budget flick.
"It would be Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man," Quesada stated. "You can have anyone outside of that, but if you had those three characters, you have a tremendous Avengers movie. Those three characters are sort of the Holy Trinity here at Marvel."
That's about all we could get out of the classically tight-lipped Joe Quesada, but with Iron Man set for release in '08, and both Thor and Captain America in the planning stages, could an Avengers movie be far off? Who would you like to see team up? Chime in below!
CORRECTION: Our original report inferred that Mr. Quesada had suggested that the chances of an "Avengers" film happening were "pretty astronomical," when he was in fact discussing the possibility of a Marvel Team-Up movie featuring such characters as Spider-Man and Wolverine. Our apologies to Mr. Quesada.
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