Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 (2012) on Netflix
Bennie and Claire find a Chitauri gun left behind after the battle in New York. They use it to rob banks. S.H.I.E.L.D. assigns agents Jasper Sitwell and Felix Blake to retrieve it.
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Plot summary
Bennie and Claire are a couple who are down on their luck. They find a Chitauri gun that was left behind after the attack on New York City, a weapon known as Item 47. The two of them use the gun to rob banks, and the holdups draw the attention of S.H.I.E.L.D. The agency assigns two of its agents, Jasper Sitwell and Felix Blake, to retrieve the weapon and to neutralize the couple.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- After watching the short film Item 47, Disney CEO Bob Iger greenlit a television series based on S.H.I.E.L.D. at the ABC network.
- An early pitch for this One-Shot centered on Phil Coulson's funeral, but Pearson and executive producer Brad Winderbaum dropped it since the two previous One-Shots had already focused on the character.
- Writer Eric Pearson and director Louis D'Esposito came up with the idea after watching The Avengers and thinking, in Pearson's words, that "New York is a mess. There must be weapons everywhere."
- Filmed over just four days, the short runs 12 minutes, three times longer than any of the Marvel One-Shots that came before it, which had topped out at four minutes.
