Zack Snyder's Avengers

Zack Snyder's Avengers is a 2012 American superhero film based on The Avengers comic books published by Marvel Comics. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, and produced by Paramount, Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Studios, and Cruel and Unusual Films, the film serves as the sixth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the final film in its "Phase One" arc. Directed by Zack Snyder, the film features an ensemble cast including Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Edward Norton, Chris Hemsworth, Oscar Isaac, Rinko Kikuchi, Nat Wolff, Chadwick Boseman, Cobie Smulders, Billy Crudup, and Samuel L. Jackson. The story sees the titular team who, following a destructive incident, reassemble and recruit new members to take down a powerful A.I. that plans to bring the extinction of the human race.

An Avengers feature film was the ultimate goal to concluding the MCU's "Phase One." Snyder was hired directly following his work on Watchmen (2009), revising the film to include many superheroes not introduced in previous films.