Having initially joked that he was bound to mess it up, Whedon has done his best to try and alleviate the pressure of a feverishly expectant fanbase. However, regardless of whether his nerves are legit, there’s no such trepidation amongst the Marvel bigwigs, with President Kevin Feige certain he’s bagged the right man for the job.
"I've known Joss for many years,” he told MTV. “We were looking for the right thing and he came in and met on it. He's incredibly intelligent, he's got great things to say about it, and if you look at the directors we've worked with, we hire directors who have the potential to do great things. We want our film to be that great thing."
“So far we have been lucky in choosing our directors,” continues Feige in a lter interview. “They have experience of filming on this scale is not essential. They come with their creativity and we bestow a technical team to manage the habit of big movies. This is what happened with Bryan Singer on X-Men, with Sam Raimi on Spider-Man or Jon Favreau on Iron Man. We have had several meeting with Joss in which they told us that he felt ready to take this course, which we are also convinced. It has also shown me the preview of the first big action sequence of The Avengers, and it’s really phenomenal.”
Whedon meanwhile is happy with the backing he’s had from Feige and co., praising their willingness to let him get on with things. “They’re very trusting at Marvel,” says the director. “There was a script, but I had a different take on it. And when they showed it to me I said ‘But this doesn’t work for me, I would do something different.’ And they said, ‘Well tell us what you would do,’ and now I’m doing it.”
“They have no idea what I’m doing,” laughs Whedon.” They do actually know exactly what they want to do, but they don’t mind a film maker making his film in the service of what it is they want to do, they’re not trying to press me into something that isn’t me, which is really gratifying.”
It certainly looks a good fit, with Whedon’s cult credentials marking him out as the perfect man to deliver an Avengers movie faithful to the original material. So what exactly has Whedon got lined up for his superhero dream team?
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Hadouken76
May 10th 2011, 9:41
No profile on Black Widow? Not surprised, the words 'surplus to requirements' spring to mind
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ChrisWootton
May 10th 2011, 11:11
Isn't Hawkeye supposed to be deaf?
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mcghater
May 10th 2011, 13:31
@chriswootton no hes not
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ChrisWootton
May 10th 2011, 13:38
Cheers mcghater. For some reason I'd convinced myself that he was... where did that come from?
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SiMan
May 10th 2011, 14:07
Hawkeye was supposed to be 'Dead' at one point, maybe that's what you were thinking. I for one think that regardless of the outcome of the Avengers movie, the idea behind setting all of these movies in the same universe and linking them together is a brilliant move and a long overdue one in Hollywood land. With the amount of dire cross-overs that have been attempted in the past (i'm look at you AvP), i'm just glad that they've started from scratch with the intention of linking them together. The only downside i see is that it would have worked a lot better as TV shows - get a lot more in that way. The Civil War storyline is prime material for a mini-series.
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Hadouken76
May 10th 2011, 14:09
Edgar Wright is suppposed to be filming Antman, I'm sure he will have a 'small' role in it somewhere. Ha! (Crickets chirp...tumbleweeds... coat collected)
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DanRose
May 10th 2011, 14:39
Taxi for Hadouken!...But no, seriously this is hopefully gonna be a massive success. I await with 'ant'-icipation....
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ChrisWootton
May 10th 2011, 14:40
Ha SiMan, that could well be it and totally agree, I'm quite looking forward to this now. Watched Iron Man the other night (thought the sequel was pretty lame) really good fun movie and off to see Thor this week!!
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trist808
May 10th 2011, 14:52
Hawkeye has died in the comics, but was brought back (like so many other Marvel heroes over the years) as another character in The New Avengers. The Ant-Man film is planned for 2014 (I think) with a view to introducing the Pyms into the Marvel-Movie-Verse ready for possibly inclusion in The Avengers 2 (which will undoubtly happen and be greenlit at 9am on May 5th 2012 - lol) Each film links/crosses over into the others (so far) so any further stand-alone films I would imagine are gonna be considered part of the canyon and would somehow be worked into future projects. I do love the idea of a Civil War mini-series, that would be fantastic, characters would be given more development time in a TV series, but the budget would be smaller although I still think they could really do it justice that way. However it's more likely that the concept of Civil War might be used as a storyline for an Avengers sequel ... giving the team some major internal conflict as Iron Man & Cap go toe to toe with each other and The Avengers fracture into two separate teams. It could still work in a smaller two hour movie, but they'd have to crop the story something fierce. And are we ready for Speedball on the big screen? Maybe his more serious/cooler alter-ego Penance would be better? lol
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robspare
May 13th 2011, 11:44
@ChrisWootton, you're right about Hawkeye's hearing impairment. Just prior to his marriage to Mockingbird, in order to escape from a villain known as Crossfire, Hawkeye had to use a sonic arrow which damaged his hearing (Hawkeye Mini Series comics published 1983). He was then using hearing aids, until the Heores Reborn event. When Franklin Richards returned the heroes to existence, he returned them as he remembered them, so Hawkeye's hearing was no longer impaired (comics published around 1986).
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robspare
May 13th 2011, 11:45
Heroes Reborn was 1996 sorry.
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