Avengers Assemble director ‘cut out best scene’

The film clocks in at over two hours, but there was much more still to see...

‘Avengers Assemble’ director Joss Whedon has revealed that he cut one of the best scenes from the forthcoming movie.

The director told the New York Times that the scene was cut because it was ‘killing the rhythm’ of the film.

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In an interview, he revealed: “One of the best scenes that I wrote was the beautiful and poignant scene between Steve and Peggy [Carter] that takes place in the present. And I was the one who was like, Guys, we need to lose this.”

In last year's World War 2-set 'Captain America: The First Avenger' Steve Rogers became the titular hero and fell in love with Agent Peggy Carter.

The film ended with Rogers being woken up having been frozen for sixty years, meaning while he hasn't aged at all, Peggy would be in her eighties.

The footage is part of 40 minutes’ worth of material that hasn’t made it into the final cut of ‘Avengers Assemble’.

Whedon told Collider.com that the film was originally scripted and shot to a length of almost three hours, before being cut down to two hours and 20 minutes ahead of release later this month.

Explaining his decision to cut a scene set in Captain America’s apartment, he said:

"I had quite a little sequence built of Cap not relating to the world and feeling his isolation and as we got closer and closer, we realized, when he’s punching that bag, he’s pretty much telling us everything we need to know."

The director confirmed that most of the edited footage would be included on the DVD release later this year.

‘Avengers Assemble’ is released in the UK on 26 April.