The Avengers Assembled Yesterday
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?So the Avengers movie started shooting yesterday, and today there’s the first set pic. Neither of these things is especially shocking — especially the non-reveal that SHIELD plays some kind of role in the flick — but my 12-year-old self is utterly demanding I commemorate this momentous occasion with a post. They’re actually making a fucking Avengers movie. With Captain America, Thor, Iron Man and Hulk. Oh, and Hawkeye, too, although apparently he has to stand. It’s being made as I type. It’s going to come out next year. Holy shit.
For all the bitching and negativity I put on this site, I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be living and nerdy in this day and age. (Via Twitch)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.