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The Avengers To Be Renamed Avengers Assemble In The UK – First Poster

In the sixties, there was a British TV series that also aired in the US, called The Avengers. A tongue-in-cheek spy action adventure series starring a bowler hatted pinstripe-suited dapper fellow and selected beauties in skintight leather as his foil.

They even made a rather poor film of the series a few years ago. Everyone tried to forget it.

Nevertheless, that original Avengers TV show still has a certain following in the UK and, it seems, in an attempt to avoid confusion,the upcoming Marvel Studio film The Avengers is to be renamed Avengers Assemble for the UK market. And here's the new poster as proof…

The Avengers To Be Renamed Avengers Assemble In The UK – First Poster

 

Notice, Black Widow is no longer doing the brokeback pose either. And they really want to show off Robert Downey Jr's face.

A new US comic of the same title will be coming out at the same time. How fortuitous.

The Avengers To Be Renamed Avengers Assemble In The UK – First Poster


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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