The Avengers - Fillion & Longoria

The Nathan Fillion and Eva Longoria casting rumors for The Avengers movie are picking up steam. And I can't really complain. The more I think about it, the more I think they could both work.

Nathan Fillion is an under-rated actor with some pretty sizable muscles and great comedic timing and I think that he would be more than capable of playing Ant-Man.

And while Eva Longoria isn't about to win any Oscars, it's a Superhero Movie, so what Marvel really needs is someone who look great in Wasp's costume and do a good job in the small role. I think that she can handle that.

I'm going to keep listening to the whispers out there though because things are far from confirmed.

And because everyone (myself included) is talking about these two so much, I'll give you a picture of each to picture them in the get-ups.

Enjoy!

Ant-Man

Nathan Fillion

Wasp

Eva Longoria

The Avengers!

It’s no secret that all of the movies that Marvel Comics have been producing are leading to The Avengers on the big screen.

But what’s cool is the way that they are going about it. So far we have seen The Incredible Hulk rebooted with Edward Norton, the Iron Man franchise has done better than anyone on the inside could have hoped with Robert Downey Jr. in the suit, and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Captain America (Chris Evans) are in production right now.

All signs point to all four of them being onboard for The Avengers feature film when it comes to theaters in May of 2012.

There are also rumors that Scarlett Johansson will reprise her role of Black Widow from Iron Man 2 and today I read that Nathan Fillion may be brought on board to play Dr. Henry “Hank” Pym/ Ant-Man and Eva Longoria may be cast to play Janet Van Dyne/ Wasp. So far those are all just rumored, but that would give The Avengers a huge cast for a huge movie.

Also signed on for the movie is Samuel L. Jackson who will be playing Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. as he has in the Marvel movies leading up to The Avengers.

Cult/Geek legend Joss Whedon is directing the film as well as playing a part on the writing team which leads credibility to the Nathan Fillion rumors as the two of them worked together on Firefly and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog.

There is a lot of time for news, rumors and leaks leading up to the start of production for The Avengers, and we will be here for all of it.

Stay Tuned!