{"id":35473,"date":"2015-02-03T22:43:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T03:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=35473"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:44:39","slug":"is-joss-whedon-done-with-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-after-avengers-age-of-ultron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/03\/is-joss-whedon-done-with-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-after-avengers-age-of-ultron\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Joss Whedon Done With The Marvel Cinematic Universe After AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eight years isn’t really a long time to be doing any one thing in Hollywood. Heck, successful TV series run for more years than that. But if you are a creative genius such as Joss Whedon, eight might just be enough.<\/p>\n

Whedon talked with BuzzFeed News<\/a> last week, and the writer\/director hinted that his involvement with the Marvel Cinematic Universe might be coming to an end.<\/p>\n

Whedon gave this response when asked if directing Captain Marvel <\/strong>might be in his post Avengers <\/strong>plans:<\/p>\n

Um, I would never rule anything out, because I like working here. By the same token, the biggest thing for me is that I need to do something that I create myself. It\u2019s been way too long since I created a universe. The last thing I did before The Avengers<\/i> was [directing an episode of] Glee<\/i>, and in between I did Much Ado About Nothing<\/i>. So I haven\u2019t created my own universe for over five years. That feels wrong. You know, my own universe might be a book of haiku. I\u2019m not necessarily saying I\u2019ve got a grand scheme.<\/p>\n

I will say that when I was thinking about, Well, if I wasn\u2019t going to do<\/i> Avengers 2, what would I want to do?<\/i> \u2014 of course the first thing I thought of was \u201cturn-of-the-century female Batman.\u201d Not Batman actually<\/i>. But, you know, something cool. One person<\/i>. Can\u2019t stress that enough. Movie about one person \u2014 not a team, not 10, just one. But [I would] do a nice sort of hard action movie that combined all my favorite things. Something that would be the love child of Sam Fuller and Edward Gorey. You know, I\u2019ve had many thoughts since then. Oh, I could do this! Oh, I could do that!<\/i> But it is my instinct to want to tell those stories.<\/p>\n

Captain Marvel<\/i> I don\u2019t know as well. There have been a few [versions] of her. I have the first issue of Ms. Marvel<\/i>, back when she was that, and had the Farrah hair. My only issue with her is that she always felt sort of on top. She was very driven. A winner. I always like to dig into the soil of things to find my heroes, if I can.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, you can read Whedon’s comments a number of ways. But it seems that he is interested in at the very least taking a break from Marvel to work on original properties. Also, that Carol Danvers is too much of a winner for him to tackle.<\/p>\n

While his guiding hand has made Marvel a cinematic juggernaut, anytime the creator of Buffy, Angel and Firefly wants to create something new and original, I say we let him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the very least, it seems like a break is in order. <\/div>\n

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