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When you direct and rewrite one of the biggest films of all time, and are often considered the architect of said feature for pulling off the various and disparate movie threads that lead to that complex feat, everyone wants to know what you're going to do for an encore.
So in some respects, it's understandable why so many people are desperate to know whether Joss Whedon will direct the sequel to "The Avengers," now the third highest grossing film of all time ($612.3 million domestically and $1.46 billion worldwide). Asked at Comic-Con today, during a 10-year anniversary panel for his now-defunct space western TV show, "Firefly," whether the filmmaker would helm the next "Avengers" film, Whedon remained non-committal. “I have not come to a decision on directing 'Avengers 2' yet,” he said. “I am having too much fun with this (Firefly reunion) now.”
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Seeings how the second movie would be a long way off...it would be a big commitment to make that far in advance....but you never know....I wouldn't want anyone else to do it.
i sure hope so, i dont know anyone else whos going to do the trademark humour and other bits like he did for the sequal
at the very least he's got to be involved somewhere in the scripting stage.
but i think with the phenomenal succes the first one has had, marvel will be very keen to get him back.
i could see them trying to get him involved in some advisory capacity on the whole slate of marvel films too.
This is an example of FANS of a different medium being in control and doing things properly. He IS a comic book fan. He didn't pick the movie up and then go order 10 boxes of comics to read them over and "get an idea" of it. He already read them, he already knew the characters, he knew what to do before he even began.
Wherever he goes with comics, I will gladly follow. Hollywood needs more people like him. Heck give him one of the stand alone hereos....maybe it won't be a stereotypical action movie for once. He even knows how to write comics, which a majority of the comic book film directors couldn't do.
This is what video games will see one day. Eventually a person will be old enough to take the film, and then do it properly. Why? Because the person played the game, understands the game, and has been a part of the universe. Not "oh well I played it over the weekend and talked with the devs for an hour" or like the Uncharted mistake "I watched someone play it and its a story about family"