While
hard at work on the anticipated sequel Avengers 2, Joss Whedon the director had
time for an interview with the daily beast. During the interview Whedon talked
about the lack of female superheroes on the big screen and that it bother him,
and he also talked about Robert Downey Jr returning has Tony Stark, aka Iron
Man in Avengers 2.
About
the lack of superheroines, Whedon had this to say:
“Toymakers
will tell you they won’t sell enough, and movie people will point to the two
terrible superheroine movies that were made and say, You see? It can’t be done.
It’s stupid, and I’m hoping The Hunger Games will lead to a paradigm shift. It’s frustrating to me
that I don’t see anybody developing one of these movies. It actually pisses me
off. My daughter watched The Avengers and was like,
‘My favorite characters were the Black Widow and Maria Hill,’ and I thought,
Yeah, of course they were. I read a beautiful thing Junot Diaz wrote: ‘If you
want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level,
any reflection of themselves.’ “
And
Robert Downey Jr. returning as Iron Man:
“He
is Iron Man. He is Iron Man in the way that Sean Connery was James Bond. I have no
intention of making Avengers 2 without him,
nor do I think I’ll be called upon to do that. I don’t think it’s in my
interest, Marvel’s interest, or his interest, and I think everything will be
fine. But I know that this is Hollywood and you roll with things. You have to
be ready for the unexpected. But I loved working with Robert, and everybody
knows he embodied that role in a way no one else can. The day he was cast, I
went up to [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige and said, ‘You brilliant son
of a bitch.’ “
Robert
Downey Jr. has begun negotiations for both Avengers 2 and 3, but no word about
any others Iron Man standalone films, but as Whedon put it “You have to be
ready for the unexpected.”
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