Meet Maria Hill – new image from ‘The Avengers’
It’s been a huge week for comic book fans, movie fans and mother Earth with a whole bunch of goodies from ‘The Avengers’ being revealed including a new poster and trailer.
While the main superheroes and characters familiar to audiences from the other Marvel Studios productions are getting top billing (and so they should) there are a couple of new characters appearing in ‘The Avengers’ that are being kept quiet.
One of those characters is S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Maria Hill who is being played by Cobie Smulders. The character has been almost absent from all promo material and trailers, yet she’s featured heavily in most of ‘The Avengers’ comics in more recent times. Maybe the character has something to do with the storyline which is why she’s being hidden? Or maybe she has so little time in the film it’s not worth promoting?
Joe Quesada, Marvel’s Editor in Chief describes the character as:
“[Hill] is such a strong personality, she’s like a force of nature and quite frankly, while perhaps not immediately loved by all involved, she’s certainly as strong and imposing a figure as Nick Fury.”
Marvel has posted a few pictures of the character online hit the jump to check them out.
‘The Avengers’ is released 25 April 2012 in Australia, and 4 May 2012 in the US.
I think she is just not worth promoting because they have Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Black Widow and Nick Fury already known to audiences so there’s enough promotion material in that. then of course there is Loki who fans already have seen in Thor and the speculation around Loki’s army. There is a lot of advertising potential and promotional excitement around the actual group of Avengers there is no need to feature Maria Hill really as to fans of the movies rather than comic books, nobody has a clue who she is.
I disagree. Promoting her character is another way to get different/new fans interested in the film. There are a lot of fans of her work on HIMYM that will be interested in seeing her on the bigscreen – these fans aren’t all going to be Avengers fans already. I for one, am very interested to see what part her character will play.
Yeah, I guess that’s a different way of looking at it that I hadn’t rally considered. I think it’s clear, though, that Marvel/Disney/Paramount or whoever is in charge of promotion clearly thinks that having the Avengers on the big screen altogether at last is the main thing to hang the film on. They’ve so far (from the trailers and pictures) rendered Agent Coulson pretty mute too and he has been a big hit with the fans with his appearances.
Like you said, we’ll just have to wait and see what part she plays in the film.