Longtime comic book readers had a brief moment in the closing minutes of Avengers: Age of Ultron where it seemed that a feverent wish was about to be granted. As the New Avengers team gathered, Chris Evans' Captain America was just about to let out the longtime Avengers battlecry, "Avengers Assemble" before the movie faded to black. Director Joss Whedon has disclsoed to Empire Magazine's Spoiler Podcast that Cap was never going to get out a full battlecry
"I made sure that we never shot Chris Evans saying [the 'assemble!' of 'Avengers assemble!'] I was positive that some executive was gonna go, 'You forgot to put in the last word!' I was like, 'With my dying breath...' I don’t have to say that a lot, but sometimes I’ll turn to [Marvel head honcho] Kevin [Feige] and say, 'With my dying breath...'
As much as I was like, 'We didn’t get this, we didn’t get this, this is sloppy, and I’m not happy with that music cue...' With all my complaints, it was in the script exactly as you see it. 'He draws breath to say the next word. Blackout.' So to know that we landed exactly where I wanted to go, however many stumbles along the way, was extremely gratifying. As was Chris Evans’ reaction when I told him what we were going to do in the second movie, at the MTV movie awards, when we won for the first movie – he lost his s***. (Laughs) It was great."
Perhaps in the next Avengers film, or possibly even in Captain America: Civil War we'll get to hear Cap say the battlecry? Maybe Civil War ends with Cap at a press conference [a la the first Iron Man] struggling to address the media regarding the inevitalbe mayhem and destructon that just unfolded in Civil War and then he stops, realizes what his next move needs to be and then looks directly into the camera and deadpans "Avengers Assemble"? Hey, a fan can dream!
Avengers: Age of Ultron is currently playing in theaters. Written and directed by Joss Whedon, the film stars Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, James Spader, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Cobie Smulder, Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Bettany and Don Cheadle.
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