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I See What They Did There

Lizzy Caplan Starring in Avengers Short Film No One Knew Was Happening

by Alanna Bennett | 11:05 am, July 3rd, 2012


Bet you didn’t know this one was happening! Or at least, that’s the impression I’m getting from all of the articles surrounding this one image including the words “top secret.” But alas, now you know: Lizzy Caplan is teaming up with Marvel to co-star in short film called Item 47, which follows a couple as they find one of the discarded alien guns from the finale of The Avengers and decide what to do with it. The couple will be played by Caplan (Party Down, Mean Girls) and Jesse Bradford (Flags of Our Fathers, Bring it On), so expect some wry commentary along the way.

Presumably the fictional couple will make some very bad decisions with their big, dangerous alien gun, and their hijinks will be viewable at a special screening at San Diego Comic-Con next week, and then on The Avengers Blu-ray, out September 25th.

The film itself, named after the abandoned alien paraphernalia in question, is a good chance for Marvel to dive even further into the on-screen world of The Avengers, showcasing how some non-super-powered people react to a world thrown into chaos. They’ve done it before, in shorts for Thor (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer) and Captain America (The Consultant). Item 47, however, will be around three times as long as previous efforts.

As for those aforementioned bad decisions, the Caplan/Bradford coupling will make quite a few. As Marvel Studios co-president Louis D’Esposito explains in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:

“The world is topsy-turvy now. There’s been an alien invasion, and things are crazy. So when this gun ­literally fell into their lap, this is a sign: We’re going to rob a few banks, we’re going to buy a boat, we’re going to the Caribbean, and all our problems will be solved.”

Crazy kids and their alien weaponry.

The short will feature two S.H.I.E.L.D agents, as played by Titus Welliver (who played The Man in Black on Lost) and Maximiliano Hernández (previously seen in Thor and The Avengers).

In the end, though what we are concerned with is this: Lizzy Caplan needs to befriend Joss Whedon, and fast. We feel this friendship would be beneficial to us.

(via Entertainment Weekly)

 

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  • Kaarel Jakobson

    Hmmmm, interesting premise. It seems to me like there’s good odds that a superhero will step in and stop the robbery, but which one?

  • http://twitter.com/HMSFox Susan

    *Do we need an Avengers spoiler warning by this point?*  Didn’t the guns, like all the aliens themselves, “de-power” once the ship was nuked and/or the portal closed? I remember all the aliens and their worm-ships just collapsing at that point.  At the very least, the Cube is now off-planet, so if that’s the power source how is that going to work?

  • http://twitter.com/coreyregalado Corey Regalado

    For a sec, I thought it was a Janet van Dyne Easter egg.

  • Rizz Rustbolt

    I don’t know… Even if she befriends Whedon, it’s no guarantee that she’ll stop exploding in shows and movies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663147791 Phi-Long Nguyen

    I like it! There was a time when I used to mix Caplan up with Kat Dennings and would love to see them both in the same Marvel Studios project sometime, whether it be Thor 3 or Avengers 2…..     ;Þ 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663147791 Phi-Long Nguyen

     Hopefully Maria Hill…..   =D

  • http://twitter.com/Totz_the_Plaid Totz_the_Plaid

    …I’d heard about this film. Not its premise, but I’d seen the name before.

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