After finding Luke Cage a month ago, I finally got around to shooting my first photo of the classic duo!
HEROES FOR HIRE
2025 -Disney +
Plot: An unlikely alliance is forged between a reluctant teen executive from Manhattan and a disadvantaged youth from Harlem in this Marvel coming of age drama set in mid-seventies New York.
On my Earth, the Avengers movie came out in 1983. It was directed by Richard Donner and featured a star studded cast:
Kevin Costner - Captain America
Peter Weller - Iron Man
Don Johnson - Thor
Kirstie Alley - Black Widow
Kurt Russell - Hawkeye
Michael Douglas - AntMan
Michelle Pfeifer - Wasp
Andre the Giant - Hulk
Eric Stoltz - Quicksilver
Molly Ringwald - Scarlet Witch
C Thomas Howell - Spider-Man
Christopher Lee as Jarvis
and Billy Drago as Ultron
It was produced by MGM and special effects via Industrial Light & Magic, with a whopping budget of $45 million dollars and was released in November 18. It was an international hit. Although many criticized the decision to forego the heroes classic costumes, masks and canon origin stories, the film was widely hailed as ushering in an era of Superhero genre films.
However, following the unfortunate armed conflict against the Soviet Union in 1984 and subsequent social upheavals, the film sequels never progressed beyond initial production and numerous screenplay rewrites.