Joss Whedon is directing The Avengers

[Teacher]

This may be old news to some, but it's news to me. I'm not a comic fan and don't really follow this stuff closely, but I do enjoy some of these movies. So when I found this out just now, here's how my thoughts formed:

Thought Number One: God, NOO!!

Thought Number Two: Well, I'll save myself some bucks by not going to it. I'll probably just catch half of it on TV some day.

Thought Number Three: Wait a minute, why the **** is Joss Whedon at all interested in directing The Avengers? There's no tiny, smarmy, unrealistically-powerful young girl in it. What gives here???

Thoughts, anybody?

 

[Slopho]

This movie is going to suck.

 

[AntiHero84]

Joss Whedon did an awesome job with The Astonishing X-Men, possibly some of the best post-Claremont X-Men stories of all time. As a person who does read comics, this could be good news.

 

[Slopho]

Originally Posted by AntiHero84

Joss Whedon did an awesome job with The Astonishing X-Men, possibly some of the best post-Claremont X-Men stories of all time. As a person who does read comics, this could be good news.


Good for people who read comic books, movies are generally supposed to be made for a wider audience.

 

[Nananine]

Originally Posted by AntiHero84

Joss Whedon did an awesome job with The Astonishing X-Men, possibly some of the best post-Claremont X-Men stories of all time. As a person who does read comics, this could be good news.

Re-read Claremont and you'll find that it's all pretty terrible, even (especially) the Dark Phoenix Saga

 

[willy cheesesteak]

They've been wanting either him or Jon Favreau to direct the Avengers movie for awhile. BTW, Ed Norton will not be returning to reprise his Bruce Banner role.

 

[Brothersport]

^new campaign for Donald Glover fans!

 

[Slopho]

Originally Posted by Brothersport

^new campaign for Donald Glover fans!

You didn't get enough of Donald Glover in the Leathal Weapon series?

 

[willy cheesesteak]

Originally Posted by Slopho

You didn't get enough of Donald Glover in the Leathal Weapon series?
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but that's Danny Glover.

 

[Slopho]

Originally Posted by willy cheesesteak

I can't tell if you're joking or not, but that's Danny Glover.

You're thinking of Steve James from American Ninja.

 

[RFX45]

Even if Whedon is directing, Marvel is still doing this movie and so far Marvel has done a good job on all the movies they have been in charge of. So no worries at the moment. That is why I wish Marvel would take the rights back of the SpiderMan franchise from Sony.

Sucks that Norton can reprise his role though, I hate it when they keep changing actors. This will the 3rd Bruce Banner in a decade?

 

[willy cheesesteak]

I wish they'd take back X-Men and the entire X universe from Fox.

 

[RFX45]

That too, although the X-Men First Class movie is looking good as far as casting goes. Actually, the first 2 X-Men movies weren't as bad as say DareDevil or Elektra. They were entertaining for the most part, even the 3rd one wasn't too horrible.

 

[Mr Herbert]

DC have done a much better job with its franchises of late

 

[willpower]

Directed by Joss Whedon. With Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson



Dammit, I thought it was the 60s TV Series.