The 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' helmer thinks he has made 'the movie people were a little bit cross about the TV show.'
- Apr 29, 2015
AceShowbiz - Joss Whedon shares his thoughts on the ever growing Marvel Cinematic Universe. The "Avengers: Age of Ultron" director admits the superhero crisscrossing storyline is a bit too much after it expanded into several TV spin-offs which include "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.".
"I think actually the movie people were a little bit cross about the TV show," he told IGN. "They were sort of like 'Well you can have this but not this. And this but not that.' It's complicated enough as it is without me adding another layer of complication. We also created a TV show called S.H.I.E.L.D. right before they made a movie where they destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D. So everybody's having a GREAT time!"
Asked if Clark Gregg's Phil Coulson who was killed off in "The Avengers" would ever be revived for the big screen, Whedon said, "Yeah he's dead. The entire television series is just a fever dream. It's a Jacob's Ladder moment he's having at the point of death, but we don't give that away until after season seven. And there's a snow globe. Now I've given it away. Bollocks! It's a weird little yes and no."
He added, "As far as I'm concerned in the films, yes he's dead. In terms of the narrative of these guys [The Avengers] his loss was very important. When I created the television show, it was sort of on the understanding that this can work and we can do it with integrity, but these Avengers movies are for people to see the Avengers movies and nothing else. And it would neither make sense nor be useful to say 'Oh and by the way remember me? I died!' "
"Age of Ultron" which will hit North American theaters on May 1 will mark Whedon's last Marvel movie. The next installments "Avengers: Infinity War Part I" and "Avengers: Infinity War Part II" will be directed by Anthony and Joe Russo after they complete "Captain America: Civil War".
