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**RollWithEm** · 10-19-2012, 08:46 AM

Whedon responds

Quote:

"I'm sorry to hear it, I'm a fan."

Very classy Joss.

**RollWithEm** · 10-19-2012, 08:48 AM

**RollWithEm** · 11-02-2012, 01:53 PM

**RollWithEm** · 11-09-2012, 09:31 AM

Sam Mendes revealed that he (along with a few others) had been approached to direct The Avengers.

Quote:

With a lot of these movies, the date's announced before anything exists, let alone a script. The funniest letter I got — they were sending [a packet for] The Avengers, right? For directors to pitch — and I got a package, which was full of comic books, but no treatment; there was no script. But the cover letter said "Marvel's Avengers will be released on May 3, 2012" or whatever it was. That was the first sentence of the cover letter. Not, "We have the pleasure of enclosing the materials..." or "Here is the script for..." But the release date. That was the first sentence.

Not a surprise.

**RollWithEm** · 12-15-2012, 06:40 AM

... The Dark Knight Rises.

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"The Dark Knight Rises' I have a weird relationship with - it's like a chemical romance with a toxic ex-girlfriend where I love her to death but there are some things about her that are just ****ing wrong. The Avengers I loved so more than I thought I would. I've written forMarvel but I was never an Avengers guy. I'm more DC. But I've become obsessed with Favreau's Iron Man movie because I think it's very nearly a perfect film. So when I saw Favreau wasn't doing it I thought, Well what do I care? The first time I saw it was in Australia and it opened a week before it opened here and we were traveling for the Jay and Silent Bob Go Down Under tour and we had just done a show and we went to a midnight show. And the first time I saw it I could not get past the Loki poke-y stick in the beginning. Because Loki sticks something in somebody's chest and it's like 'WAAMP, you're a bad guy.' What the ****? Is this the level of discourse we're going to have? But you can't deny that flick."

"By the middle of it I was like, 'The Hulk is amazing.' The next time I watched it I was totally into it. You can't watch that movie and be like 'I object to the Loki poke-y stick' when there's a mother****er who turns into a green giant. In my mind Marvel science is okay because we were raised on it. As someone who looks for realism in comics, you can say, 'Well, you could get belted by gamma rays and turn into someone else.' But you can't say, 'A stick from outer space that makes you a bad guy is bullshit!' So I got past that and embraced the whole thing. I've now watched 'Avengers' about eight times, twice on a plane back-to-back. It just keeps giving. That's 10,000 across the board! Whedon in the driver's seat, 70-80 years of Marvel, and the charm ****ing factor of Robert Downey Jr. It runs like a golden machine."

I see where he's coming from with his assessment.

**RollWithEm** · 12-21-2012, 01:29 PM

**RollWithEm** · 12-23-2012, 10:27 PM

...shows Thanos in the original plans for the first movie!

**RollWithEm** · 01-11-2013, 07:00 AM

**RollWithEm** · 01-24-2013, 01:38 PM

**RollWithEm** · 02-01-2013, 09:15 AM

**RollWithEm** · 02-05-2013, 12:46 PM

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