{"id":7833,"date":"2010-04-13T21:49:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T02:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2010-04-13T21:49:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T02:49:39","slug":"whedon-assembling-avengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/13\/whedon-assembling-avengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Whedon Assembling AVENGERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If this happens, it could make a lot of people really happy and have a lot of people complaining.<\/p>\n

Deadline New York<\/a>, the East Coast version of Deadline Hollywood gossip blog, is reporting that Joss Whedon is in “final negotiations” to direct the big screen adaptation of\u00a0The<\/strong> Avengers <\/strong>comic book.<\/p>\n

The film version is the ipso facto sequel\u00a0to all of\u00a0Marvel’s films from the last two years and the ones yet to come before The Avengers’ <\/strong>May 4, 2012 release date.\u00a0Many of the stars of Marvel’s slate of films, including Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans, are rumored to have signed on to reprise their roles in the team-up film.<\/p>\n

Whedon has a relationship with Marvel as a comic book writer, yet not on any of the Avengers<\/strong>‘ \u00a0titles. He has written Astonishing X-Men<\/strong> and Runaways<\/strong> for the comic book company. Plots from his X-men comic book made it into X-Men: The Last Stand<\/strong> and he did an uncredited rewrite on the first X-Men\u00a0<\/strong>film.<\/p>\n

His past experience on such genre-friendly TV shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly <\/strong>and Dollhouse <\/strong>show his ability to juggle many interesting characters and be able to give them moments to shine. But this is usually chalked up to his writing ability, not his skill as a director. Also, those last two projects were cult hits yet ratings failures and his only film directing experience, the 2005 Firefly <\/strong>spin-off, Serenity<\/strong>, was a box office bomb. So while his legion of fans might be giddy with excitement, there is cause for concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If this happens, it could make a lot of people really happy and have a lot of people complaining. Deadline New York, the East Coast version of Deadline Hollywood gossip blog, is reporting that Joss [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[462,31,57,283,1671,2674,1673,684,297,1071,299],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"tag-captain-america","9":"tag-comics-and-film","10":"tag-directors","11":"tag-iron-man","12":"tag-joss-whedon","13":"tag-runaways","14":"tag-serenity","15":"tag-the-avengers","16":"tag-thor","17":"tag-x-men","18":"tag-x-men-the-last-stand"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t