Joss Whedon on ‘AVENGERS 2’ and ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’, hee-yay.

Joss Whedon can’t top 2012. He can’t. It was the year he bathed in the blood of delicious capitalist credits, and finally ascended to what many believe is his rightful place on the Geek Throne. Despite that, he is too young to retreat to a cave and live his days as an ascetic. So here is hoping talking about his next ventures.

/Film:

On how to meet the expectations of a sequel to a big movie like The Avengers:

Don’t go bigger; go deeper. All of these people have met, so you have that out of the way. Now you can spend your time just digging in, and by digging in, I mean with a scalpel, to cause pain.

On the status of S.H.I.E.L.D. and how to bring Marvel to TV:

[We start filming] a week from Tuesday. You have to bring a bit of spectacle to it. It’s got to be bigger than your average cop show. But at the end of the day, it’s about the peripheral people. It’s about the people on the edges of the grand adventures. The whole point of the show is that even with all these big things, the little things matter. It’s about people who don’t have super powers. There will be some people with powers, there will be FX, and there will be the spectacle of science-fiction storytelling, but all played on a very human, small level. That’s the appeal of the thing.

On his current role with the other Marvel films:

I read all the scripts and I give notes on everything. I’ll look at cuts when they’re ready to show me. I’ll talk to directors if they want to. I try to make myself useful without being intrusive. I’ve gotten to be a part of all of them. That’s a dream job for a kid like me.