How I Met Your Superhero

How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders is the front runner for the role of S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Maria Hill in Joss Whedon's The Avengers reports Deadline.

The role is the female sidekick of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) which Jackson mentioned in a recent interview on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

A deal seems likely and would include options for appearances in future superhero films She beat out Morena Baccarin, Jessica Lucas and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Whedon first took note of Smulders when he was trying to cast that aborted Wonder Woman film of his.

In the comics, Hill was the ruthless interim executive director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and was not above blackmailing and bullying superheros to get her way. She was eventually replaced by Robert Downey Jr,'s Tony Stark.

Jeremy Renner,Chris Evans Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson also star in the May 4, 2012 release

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