The Avengers How much money should be spent on making The Avengers?

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I've been wondering about this question for days and if somewhere under the 200$ million range would be enough to make a good Avengers movie with a big scope. I'm sort of worried.
 
I'm sure there will be plenty of reasonable, informed opinions presented in this thread.
 
I think this will get a 200 mil-ish budget. The film needs the money, but it is also a safer investment than Thor or Cap solos are. Avengers is mopre bankable and will make that money back, so I don't think investing 200 mil or whatever the budget will be will be a problem.
 
Actually,right now I think the bigger question should be is how much doe's Marvel think is enough to use to make the movie.
 
Well they're gonna save a lot of $ on the director's salary. He might get $.5-1 million or so. Not even as much as Jon got for IM1(which was $2-4M) since he has even less of a resume' coming in. But the actor's salaries are gonna go up, especially the principles. I think once they get all that out of the way, we're probably looking at $50-75M in cast/crew salaries. Then add another $125-175M for the rest and a ballpark of $175M at the absolute lowest and $250M at the high end emerges.
 
Should Whedon rewrite the screenplay to both his and Marvel's satisfaction, he and Marvel are probably going to agree on a tight budget. Unlike some directors, Whedon proposes a budget and actually sticks to it (and he'll be looking to cut costs if Marvel asks him too).

Regardless who's directing it, The Avengers will be in the $200M range without a doubt (unless Marvel really wants to cut costs by shooting it in European sound stages, which are cheaper). If need be, I wouldn't be surprised if Marvel 'asks' some of the cast and crew to defer hefty up-front payments in favor of a more modest sum plus a percentage of the box-office gross.
 
There's no feasible way this movie can be made for less than $200-250 million. No way. Not unless they are very conservative in some areas and cut a lot of corners.

Chances are that Evans and Hemsworth won't be the big earners for this one. But Robert Downey Jr and if they get Norton back, it will be considerable. Also having to get Cap, Thor, Iron Man, and who ever else all in one movie. It will be significant.

Spider-man cost around what, $258 million, and that was including super powered characters in Spider-man, Venom, Sandman, and Nu-Goblin plus the fees of the returning actors. I see Avengers being similar.
 
We need a two metal men, a gigantic green CGI monster, a Norse God, several big name actors the likes of RDJ, SLJ, Edward Norton (hopefully,) ScarJo, Chris Evans, etc. etc. etc.

Really, realistically, I just don't see it being done for less than $250 mil. If Spider-man 3 cost what it did, I could realistically see Avengers falling within the same budget range, even with them saving money on Whedon. Marvel is skimpy though, and they may want to pull this off for $200 or less (though it's kind of hard to call this skimpy...) If they can do that, all the more power to them.
 
It should cost as much as it should.

I think that it's easily going to cost well over 200mil and that the studio is going to lie about it like all studios do.
 
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I think they need at least 200 million (not including the marketing) for The Avengers to work; Marvel has been building all their movies up for this ultimate crossover, and they cannot afford to go cheap and risk ruining the movie with bad CGI and whatnots. Marvel will have to put all the cards on the table for this one.
 
The only way to get it done on the modest end of that is to have them take a pay cut salary wise, and to get some big players in the industry to help with the CG.
 
I'm sure there will be plenty of reasonable, informed opinions presented in this thread.

A bajillion dollars!!!

Let's just take it from the Obama stash we all know is limitless and call Avengers a stimulus project! Shovel ready avenging!
 
I think this will get a 200 mil-ish budget. The film needs the money, but it is also a safer investment than Thor or Cap solos are. Avengers is mopre bankable and will make that money back, so I don't think investing 200 mil or whatever the budget will be will be a problem.

I'm with you. The movie requires a budget more in the $200 - $250 million range when you consider the scope. You cannot go cheap on this concept, if they're going to do a crossover of this magnitude they have to do it right. For perspective, TIH cost $150 million to make and it had a great cast and two major characters requiring CGI. The Avengers is going to have a cast unlike any seen in any of the solo films and CGI in some form or fashion for all of the significant characters.
 
Should Whedon rewrite the screenplay to both his and Marvel's satisfaction, he and Marvel are probably going to agree on a tight budget. Unlike some directors, Whedon proposes a budget and actually sticks to it (and he'll be looking to cut costs if Marvel asks him too).

How do you know what Whedon does? :huh:
 

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