The Avengers Pitch Meeting

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**The Avengers Pitch Meeting** is the twentieth episode of the Pitch Meeting series on Screen Rant.

## Description

Step inside the pitch meeting that started it all. in 2012 the superhero movie revolution was well underway and Marvel was leading the charge, five films into their cinematic universe with The Avengers on the horizon. The sixth MCU film would tie together all the previous movies and lay out the framework for the whole franchise moving forward. But as exciting as this all was, no movie is perfect, and The Avengers, in all of its epic glory, is no exception. Could Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye team up to save the world? Sure; super easy, barely an inconvenience.

## Cast

* Producer Guy - Ryan George
* Screenwriter Guy - Ryan George

## Notices

* This is the first Pitch Meeting to break the fourth wall.
* This is the first Pitch Meeting where Producer Guy uses the catchphrase "That's the name of the movie!".

**Producer Guy:** So you have a new superhero script for me?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yes sir I do, and it's kind of a sequel to all of the movies we've done so far, so there's Captain America, Iron Man, Thor-

**Producer Guy:** Oh yeah, Thor's the one where we shot like half his movie in Dutch angles right?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, what was up with that? Was the tripod broken or something?

**Producer Guy:** One of the tripod legs was broken, that's right.

**Screenwriter Guy:** I thought so.

**Producer Guy:** So who else is there?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well in terms of superheroes there's also Hulk, there's Spider-Man, there's-

**Producer Guy:** Nope, not him.

**Screenwriter Guy:** What?

**Producer Guy:** We can't have Spider-Man in there.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, how come?

**Producer Guy:** Well we don't have the rights to the character.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Ah, crap, that's right.

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, so unfortunately we're never ever ever ever ever *ever* gonna see Spider-Man in a Marvel Studios movie. *[winks at the camera]*

**Screenwriter Guy:** You alright?

**Producer Guy:** What's up?

**Screenwriter Guy:** You had like a weird eye twitch or something. You have something in your eye?

**Producer Guy:** *[long silence]* Yes.

**Screenwriter Guy:** There was also a bell noise or something?

**Producer Guy:** *[nervously changing the subject]* So what happens in the movie?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well there's a magic box called the Tesseract that's misbehaving and so S.H.I.E.L.D. is trying to figure out why. And they're trying everything, I mean they poke it with a stick and stuff.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, poking it with a stick doesn't help?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Not at all, and then a portal opens up and out comes the big scary threat of the movie.

**Producer Guy:** Ahhhh, is it a spooky skeleton?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No.

**Producer Guy:** 'Cause that'd be scary.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah but it's not a spooky skeleton, it's actually Loki.

**Producer Guy:** Loki? From the tilty *Thor* movie? I thought that movie ended with him killing himself by jumping into some kind of spacial abyss?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, he's fine now.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, that didn't kill him?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, and that's something I'd actually really like to start pushing in Marvel movies.

**Producer Guy:** That nobody ever actually dies?

**Screenwriter Guy:** That's right.

**Producer Guy:** I like it! So how does he survive?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, we're barely gonna explain it.

**Producer Guy:** Works for me.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So then Loki uses a scepter to mind control Erik Selvig, the scientist from the tilty *Thor* movie, and also Hawkeye.

**Producer Guy:** Hawkeye?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah, he actually ends up being one of the Avengers.

**Producer Guy:** What are his superpowers?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Ah, he's awesome; he shoots arrows. Very well.

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, what else?

**Screenwriter Guy:** That's- That's about it.

**Producer Guy:** Oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** But sometimes the arrows explode, and sometimes they have computer viruses.

**Producer Guy:** He shoots computer virus arrows?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, sure, I don't know.

**Producer Guy:** Alright.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So basically Loki wants to use the Tesseract to open a portal so his alien army can come through.

**Producer Guy:** Where's he get an alien army?

**Screenwriter Guy:** When he was floating in space he met this guy named the Other who works for this other guy Thanos.

**Producer Guy:** Thanos?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, we're actually gonna have a mid-credits scene where he shows up.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, is he like the upcoming villain or something?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Exactly.

**Producer Guy:** Amazing.

**Screenwriter Guy:** In six years.

**Producer Guy:** What?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Anyway, then Nick Fury's like "Uh oh, stuff is crazy, I'm gonna move forward with the Avengers Initiative".

**Producer Guy:** And what does that mean exactly?

**Screenwriter Guy:** It means they're gonna invite Bruce Banner, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers to come hang out.

**Producer Guy:** That's his plan?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah he figures if he could get them all in the same room, that'll kind of fix everything.

**Producer Guy:** Huh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Also Natasha Romanoff from *Iron Man 2* is there.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, Black Widow's in this!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah so once again she's gonna be in very tight leather but this time doing even more action scenes.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, I bet that's gonna be uncomfortable for her.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah, I'd say so.

**Producer Guy:** So what else happens?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well Loki's gonna get captured by the Avengers but then Thor's gonna show up and try to take him.

**Producer Guy:** How does Thor get back to Earth? Didn't he destroy the only way back at the end of his film?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, we're barely gonna explain that.

**Producer Guy:** Gotcha; well I guess it's good that Thor's there now because they can get Jane Foster to help out.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[confused]* Why would they do that?

**Producer Guy:** Well her and Erik Selvig are kind of the authorities on portal science so if anyone can help out it's her.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Okay yeah, that's a good idea, but- but instead of doing that, they're gonna send her off to an island or something.

**Producer Guy:** Oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, she's not even in this movie; it's more of a "let's solve things with punching" kind of movie.

**Producer Guy:** Gotcha.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So anyway, Thor and Iron Man and Captain America get into a fight over Loki.

**Producer Guy:** And so he escapes?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, he just kinda stands around and waits for them to finish up.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, doesn't that make them suspicious? That means he clearly wants to get captured.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, but they still bring him onto the Helicarrier thing.

**Producer Guy:** Huh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So then it turns out that Loki's plan is to turn Bruce Banner into the Hulk.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, well I guess Bruce wouldn't be stupid enough to get on an airplane if there was any danger of him turning.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well to be fair, S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't tell him he was gonna be on a plane.

**Producer Guy:** *[confused]* What? Why?

**Screenwriter Guy:** 'Cause it was a fun little surprise; they were like "Guess what, this boat's actually a plane, woooahh".

**Producer Guy:** That seems wildly irresponsible.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah.

**Producer Guy:** Huh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then Loki kills this agent Phil Coulson.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, but you said people don't actually die.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah no, I was thinking he could come back for like a spinoff TV show or something.

**Producer Guy:** I love it.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So now that Agent Coulson is "dead" they have something to avenge and so they become…

**Producer Guy:** *[whispering]* The Avengers!

**Screenwriter Guy:** That's right!

**Producer Guy:** The awesome thing about that is that that's the *title of the movie*!

**Screenwriter Guy:** And so then a generic alien army come through the portal and the Avengers punch them for *thirty minutes*.

**Producer Guy:** Punching is tight!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, and then S.H.I.E.L.D. is like "Let's nuke the city!".

**Producer Guy:** What?

**Screenwriter Guy:** They immediately resort to nukes, I don't know.

**Producer Guy:** Seems drastic.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah, so then Tony takes the nuke into space and blows up the mothership which he knew was there for some reason.

**Producer Guy:** Amazing.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And so then all the aliens die all at once.

**Producer Guy:** Why?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well the ship blew up.

**Producer Guy:** Why does that affect them?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Because.

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And so… yeah.

**Producer Guy:** But the portal is still open, right? Is that gonna be hard to close down?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, actually. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** What do you mean?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah well when Erik Selvig was like totally brainwashed, he built in a failsafe so they just have to poke it with Loki's scepter.

**Producer Guy:** How did he manage to do that if he was totally brainwashed?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, we're not gonna explain that.

**Producer Guy:** Huh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So what do you think?

**Producer Guy:** Well it sounds really cool.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah?

**Producer Guy:** But I think that this many superheroes is kinda crazy.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, I guess, kind of.

**Producer Guy:** So in future Marvel movies, let's maybe not go so nuts on the characters.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Absolutely. We'll tone it down a notch.

*[cut to headline: **The 40 Characters In Infinity War's Massive Action Scene**]*