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10 Superhero Movies That Almost Turned Out Very Differently

The long process a movie goes through from initial pitch to making it to the screen can often result in some enormous changes from the original idea. Superhero movies, in particular, often fall prey to this. With ballooning budgets and the capacity to make hundreds of millions of dollars back, comic book films have a lot riding on them and so producers and studio execs will pour over them with a fine toothcomb during the development stages, in a bid to ensure that the movie will be a hit.

6) The Avengers

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As universally loved as The Avengers was back when it smashed the box office in 2012, some fans did have a big gripe with it. It wasn’t a perfect recreation of the original team from the comics. In place of Ant-Man and the Wasp, we had two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in Black Widow and Hawkeye. With writer/director Joss Whedon being such a hardcore Marvel fan, why was that change made?

Well, Janet Van Dyne aka the Wasp did actually feature in early script drafts. However, Whedon admitted that, for whatever reason, “he couldn’t make it work.” Shortly after that, Scarlett Johansson joined the MCU as Natasha Romanoff and took Janet’s place.