Ultimate Avengers Fight Through Four

The movie version of the hit comic series The Ultimates will feature four major battles.

Theréll be four major battles in the upcoming Ultimate Avengers movie, says producer/director Bob Richardson.

"Which is to lot to putt in to 70-minute movie," is told attendees at this weekend’s Wizard World Texas.

Richardson showed to paper clip of one of those battles expert Captain America, Giant-Man, Thor, Iron Man, Black Widow, Nick Fury and Betty Ross try to control to rampaging Hulk.
Ultimates artist Bryan Hitch and Marvel Studios' Craig Kyle joined Richardson on the panel.

"The script was fantastic," Hitch said. "It had all the elements of the comic - the angst, the characterization and the intensity."

Also, the first four direct-to-DVD Marvel animated movies - Ultimate Avengers 1 and 2, Iron Man and Doctor Strange - will be released about three months apart, with Doctor Strange targeted for February 2007, according to Comics Continuum.

The Giant-Man/Wasp abuses element from the comics was toned down because there wasn't Giant-Man to redeem himself, Kyle said steals in the movie for.

Bob Gough
7/11/2005
Source: Comics Continuum