With such a huge slate of characters, all featured in their very own blockbuster films, it took Marvel years of painstaking craftsmanship to ensure that no continuity gaffs would stain their Avengers once they finally assembled (ignoring their affection for recasting, of course, the House of Ideas doesn’t care about that). But recently Kevin Feige revealed that they almost botched the whole project with one very innocent, cheeky post credit clip at the end of The Incredible Hulk.
If you remember the end of that 2008 flick, a teaser introduced Tony Stark to General Ross (the man tasked with taking down the Hulk), and the whole scene insinuated that S.H.I.E.L.D. was in the process of forming the Avengers to apprehend that Gamma powered behemoth. Well, we all know that can’t possibly be true, since Earth’s Mightiest Heroes have assembled for an entirely different reason altogether, so this is how Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios recovered…
The truth of the matter is, we were very concerned about painting ourselves into a corner — and didn’t do it. And if we found a fork in the road and had a really cool idea, one of which paints us into a corner and one of which would just progress the story we need to tell the movie, we always went in the direction of telling the story we needed to tell. I will say that the Tony Stark cameo in “The Incredible Hulk” required us to [laughs] get ourselves out of a corner,” he revealed. “We do not follow up on that scene in the narrative in any of the subsequent features. But, for fans, which are really the only people going, “Hey, wait a minute. What about when Tony Stark walked into the room and talked to General Ross?” There’s a short film on the “Captain America” DVD that wraps that up and explains that. So, all the dots are connected and most of them didn’t paint us into a corner. But I would say that is probably the closest one that almost did.”
Ahhh… I still don’t think that short video managed to tie all the loose threads together, but it doesn’t really matter. The Avengers is almost here!!!
SOURCE: HuffPost
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