Looks like Marvel will be coming in full force at next week’s San Diego Comic Con. With the upcoming release of Marvel’s Avengers for home video, Marvel will include a 12 minute short titled “Item47″ that takes place after the events of the movie.
The attendees at San Diego Comic Con will have the exclusive chance of seeing it first at the convention floor! How awesome is that?
The short stars Lizzy Caplan (True Blood, Party Down) and Jesse Bradford (Flags of our Fathers). The story will revolve around a young couple who finds one of the weapons left over from the Chitauri invasion, and proceed to misuse it. Meanwhile two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, played by Maximiliano Hernández (seen in Thor and The Avengers) and Titus Welliver (Lost’s Man in Black himself, making his Marvel debut) are tasked with stopping the couple and retrieving the alien weaponry.
The short explores a less superhero side of the story. ”The world is topsy-turvy now. There’s been an alien invasion, and things are crazy,” Marvel Studios co-president Louis D’Esposito (who also directed “Item 47″) tells Entertainment Weekly. “So when this gun literally fell into their lap, this is a sign: We’re going to rob a few banks, we’re going to buy a boat, we’re going to the Caribbean, and all our problems will be solved.”
Source: IGN, Entertainment Weekly
