{"id":5898,"date":"2012-08-17T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2012-08-17T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:30:11","slug":"the-avengers-2-gets-an-official-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=5898","title":{"rendered":"The Avengers 2 gets an official release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5899\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/15-Characters-for-Avengers-2-Movie-Sequels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Big news is afoot, <strong>Walt Disney Studios<\/strong> has officially confirmed that the anticipated release date for\u00a0 <strong>Joss Whedon&#8217;s<\/strong> upcoming written-and-directed follow-up to <strong><em>Marvel&#8217;s The Avengers<\/em>.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong><em>\u201cSEQUEL TO MARVEL\u2019S THE AVENGERS TO HIT THEATERS MAY 1, 2015<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong><em><br \/>\nThe Walt Disney Studios has announced a release date for Marvel Studios\u2019 sequel to the biggest Super Hero blockbuster and third highest grossing film of all time, Marvel\u2019s The Avengers. Joss Whedon returns to write and direct the UNTITLED MARVEL\u2019S AVENGERS SEQUEL set for release May 1, 2015.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">This confirmation actually comes a week after the huge (and I do mean significantly huge) announcement that <strong>Joss Whedon<\/strong> will return to write and direct the sequel his exclusive deal with <strong>Marvel Studios<\/strong> actually calls for creative contribution to all the other <strong>Phase Two<\/strong> films that will be helping to build up and lead to <strong><em>The Avengers<\/em><\/strong> sequel. That includes the main big ones: <strong><em>Iron Man 3<\/em><\/strong>, <em>T<strong>hor: The Dark World<\/strong><\/em><strong>, <em>Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/em><\/strong> that have been already dated, as well as the newcomers to the <strong>Marvel<\/strong> pallet such as: <strong><em>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em><\/strong>, And possibly the long rumored production of <em><strong>Ant-Man<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n&nbsp; Big news is afoot, Walt Disney Studios has officially confirmed that the anticipated release date for\u00a0 Joss Whedon&#8217;s upcoming&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=5898\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Avengers 2 gets an official release date&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics-videogames","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Avengers 2 gets an official release date - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=5898\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Avengers 2 gets an official release date - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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