Pretty much right after the news broke that Joss Whedon will be helming and scripting the highly anticipated re-assembly of Marvel’s The Avengers, Marvel Studios issued a statement detailing his contract. In doing this they just may have revealed when we will see the team assemble next. And apparently an “insider” at MTV News backs this up:
“Marvel has a very set agenda of what they want to do, they are already kind of ahead of the game [on the sequel] because they’ve got the guy that did it before doing it again and something tells me Joss already has the template [for the film],” an inside source told MTV News. “In terms of the time frame, I think that it is well in the works. … It looks like the release date might be May 1, 2015, but that can change depending on people’s schedules.”
I mean if you look at the studios upcoming slate of movies, the 1st of May in 2015 seems a pretty damn obvious, especially considering Whedon’s contract and “creative contribution” ends in June of 2015. It would also follow Marvel Studios trend of releasing their big films towards the start of May just like they did with Iron Man, Iron Man 2 (which was the last week of April), The Avengers AND the upcoming Iron Man 3.