Joss Whedon on Captain America’s Last Line in AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
Minor Spoilers for those who haven't seen Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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At the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America and Black Widow are looking out over the new Avengers team that they will be whipping into shape. I won’t say who that team consists of because I really don’t want to spoil it for those who haven’t seen the movie yet.
The last thing that Captain America says before the film ends is “Avengers!...” and it cuts to the credits before he is able to finally let out the battle cry, “Avengers assemble!”
Director Joss Whedon was recently a guest on Empire Magazine's Spoiler Podcast, and he reveals that Cap was never going to get out the full battlecry. He explains:
"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."
I loved that he didn’t let out the full “Avengers assemble,” the fans knew what the next word was and Cap didn’t have to say it. It was just a really fun way of ending the film and teasing the future MCU films.
Who knows? Maybe we’ll hear him say it in Captain America: Civil War.
Via: ComicBook