JOSS WHEDON spits about ‘AVENGERS 2’ calling it “complex and difficult” and other jazz.
After Avengers, just let Joss Whedon do whatever the fuck he wants. Let him. He has earned it. He turned your skeleton of a script into the best comic book movie of the past few years. Now he should be given the keys and told to have the car home by…whenever the second movie is due out.
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[One] of the last Marvel movies pre-“Avengers 2” is likely to be “Guardians of the Galaxy,” an out-there space adventure that recently hired writer-director James Gunn to steer its ship. And Whedon says he believes it’s Gunn, not himself, who’ll be key to the film’s success. “James is what makes me think it will work,” Whedon told MTV. “I myself was sort of like, ‘Well, I liked Rocket Raccoon (a member of the Guardians, an anthropomorphic raccoon) as a kid, but I’m not sure how that plays.’ And then they said, ‘Well, we’re thinking about using James Gunn.’ And I said, ‘Oh, then no, you’re fine.’ He is so off the wall, and so crazy, but so smart, such a craftsman and he builds from his heart. He loves the raccoon. Needs the raccoon.”
Gunn, who co-wrote “Scooby Doo” before getting attention for his own films like “Slither,” seems to have Whedon’s confidence, based on his previous work. “This is the guy who wrote ‘The Specials.’ People don’t understand how influential that movie was about heroes, about taking heroes and making them mundane. And ‘Super.’ ” And as for his new job, it sounds like Gunn has a very specific version in mind, and we’re probably looking at the weirdest Marvel movie yet. “He has a very twisted take on it, but it all comes from a real love for the material. It’s going to be hard for the humans to keep up,” said Whedon. “I know he’s going to come from left field and I’m going to go, ‘What?’ And then, ‘Of course, why didn’t I think of that?’ And then I’m going to beat him!”
As for Whedon’s next directorial effort, he’s not giving away the goods at this point, but expect something a little more complex and darker than the first film. “The creation of the team is not the happy ending,” he said to24 Hours. “It is the beginning of something that is complex and difficult, and now I get to dig a little deeper.