This is just a little Hiddlesmorsel to keep you guys interested through the holiday. We might even have new photos of Tom Hiddleston this Sunday – he’s nominated for an Evening Standard Theatre Award (for Coriolanus) and he might appear. I have no idea if his Hank Williams bio-pic has finished filming in America, but I suspect it has because it had a small budget and I doubt the production lasted much longer than seven weeks. So… maybe Hiddles! Maybe Hiddles will be seen and photographed on Sunday. Here’s hoping.

Meanwhile, The Daily Mail’s gossip guy claims that Marvel producers have asked several Avengers to make themselves available for some action-y reshoots for The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Apparently, Marvel is thirsty for MOAR LOKI too.

Stars of the new Avengers film, Age Of Ultron, will quietly re-assemble in London early in the New Year to shoot some extra scenes for the Marvel blockbuster. Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man), Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Paul Bettany (The Vision), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) and Tom Hiddleston (bad-guy Loki) have all been asked to make themselves available over a two-week period in January to film additional scenes at Pinewood Studios.

Director Joss Whedon and the film’s producers may not require all the stars to fly into the UK, but they had to send out an early blanket notice so they’d be around if required. And for the kind of money this cast is being paid, they’re not going to refuse.

I understand that, as with the James Bond films, Age Of Ultron — the second Avengers movie — needs a bit more kick-ass on an extravagant scale. The Avengers movies and their spin-offs have become box office diamond dust. Audiences cram into cinemas to see them — but they also demand that the action in each new film be more spectacular than the last.

Later next year, Avengers 3 and 4 will shoot back to back, most likely at Pinewood in the UK. There are some huge pictures coming to film here. In fact, so many U.S. film-makers and actors are working at British studios now that when Dawn Hudson, head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, visited recently, she saw so many members she joked she could have held a governors meeting in the UK. It’s a testament to British film talent — and that of the other craftsmen and women who opt to be based here.

[From The Daily Mail]

Well, that makes me happy. Earlier this month, Idris Elba confirmed the hopes/dream/prayers of many Dragonflies when he let it slip that he and Hiddles had filmed some undercover scenes for Ultron. If they want Hiddleston to come back for more scenes, my guess is that Marvel is looking to build even further on Loki’s story because Loki will be central to Thor: Ragnarok and possibly The Avengers 3 & 4, right? MOAR HIDDLES!!!

Photos courtesy of WENN.