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Following in the steps of "Thor" and "Captain America: The First Avenger," Disney announced that "The Avengers" will be released in both 3D and 2D. This should come as a surprise to no one, as director Joss Whedon has apparently been planning on the post-conversion into three dimensions since before he started filming the movie.

JoBlo caught up with the director after the announcement was made. He sought to calm any skeptics of 3D by saying that "'The Avengers' isn't obnoxiously 3D." Whedon went on to say that he thought of the conversion process "every second" while filming so the 3D will have a clear place in the movie.

"There's no, 'Oh look, we're going to spend 20 minutes going through this tunnel because it's in 3D!' And no one is pointing at the screen the entire time. But it's an action movie. Things tend to hurtle toward the screen anyway," he explained.

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For “The Avengers,” director Joss Whedon didn’t just tell the actors what they were going to do. He also asked them for their opinions on how the script went and what happened to their characters.

“I sat down with every one of them [the actors] to talk about my ideas and their desires before I wrote the script, and that's very useful,” Whedon said in an interview with Yahoo! Movies.

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Did you notice how authentic the soldiers in the teaser trailer for "The Avengers" were? Well, you should have, because they just might have been the real deal.

Joss Whedon recruited 25 members of the Ohio-based 391st Military Police Battalion for the big action sequence that factored heavily into last month's teaser trailer. The troops were brought in to add authenticity to the otherwise outlandish superhero film. "The combat scenes had great realism," said Lt. Col. John Clearwater, deputy director for OCPA-LA. "It's a tribute to the U.S. Army Reserves and the veteran 391st MP Battalion. They rocked the streets of Cleveland with their 50-caliber machine guns and Mark-19's. The film crew was blown away by their firepower and teamwork."

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