Joss Whedon's time over at Marvel Studios as a writer/director and
overseer of the entire Phase 2 slate of movies is one of ups-and-downs. In
2012, Whedon blew expectations way with one of Marvel's best movies to date, The
Avengers, unfortunately the highly anticipated sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron,
was engulfed in its own ambitiousness, becoming at times too convoluted and
rushed.
When Age of Ultron came out, and Whedon was doing the press rounds, you
could clearly see that the director was slightly frustrated with the outcome.
"Ultron has been the most complicated response I’ve gotten,
and the way I deal with it is becoming fetal for about eight months [audience
laughter]," Whedon said of the response to Age of Ultron
when attending a Q&A at the Oxford Union. "I fucking have no spine or self-identity or
anything, and it’s horrifying. It sucks… But I’ll be okay… Later…"
Between the accumulated fatigue of Age of Ultron, his battles with Marvel
over it, and acting as a creative consultant on other Marvel projects, Whedon
was ready to get out.
"No," the director said if was involved with the future of the
Marvel Cinematic Universe."You know I was their sort of consigliere for a
while… We do not discuss our thing… [audience laughter] But, I sort of had my
finger in all of the films in the second phase, but then I just had to
concentrate only on Ultron,
and sort of know when it was done I was just going to stop. So I made a
completely clean break – not because we had a falling out – just because I was
like, ‘I can’t…’ If I was still there going, ‘Well, here are my thoughts on
this film,’ I’d be there every day. I wouldn’t do anything else because there
are a lot of films, and it is a lot of fun. It’s very seductive. When you can
put your little fairy dust on things and just improve them slightly, and they
actually listen to you… I was a script doctor for a long time, and the part
where they listen to you was very rare; so it was very important for my own
self to go ‘we can still be friends,’ but…"
You can see the full Q&A below:
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