Joss updates on Avengers 2 and S.H.I.E.L.D

[Black Eye Guy]

We've got another cool update on The Avengers 2 and S.H.I.E.L.D. battlefront. This time it comes straight from the mouth of Joss Whedon who is currently in the process of prepping up to direct the S.H.I.E.L.D. series. In an interview with MTV he reveals that he will be finished with The Avengers 2 script in a few months, and talks about how he will bring the Marvel spectacle to S.H.I.E.L.D. He then goes on to discusses his involvement with the other Marvel films being developed.

When it comes to The Avengers 2 he wants to go deeper not bigger, which is something he's been saying he wanted to do all along.

Don't go bigger; go deeper. All of these people have met, so you have that out of the way. Now you can spend your time just digging in, and by digging in, I mean with a scalpel, to cause pain.

I'm sure his approach on the story for the sequel is going to turn out great for the fans. He goes on to talk about bringing S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel spectacle to the small screen, saying it will be bigger than your average cop show.

[We start filming] a week from Tuesday. You have to bring a bit of spectacle to it. It's got to be bigger than your average cop show. But at the end of the day, it's about the peripheral people. It's about the people on the edges of the grand adventures. The whole point of the show is that even with all these big things, the little things matter. It's about people who don't have super powers. There will be some people with powers, there will be FX, and there will be the spectacle of science-fiction storytelling, but all played on a very human, small level. That's the appeal of the thing.

I'm so excited to see how it turns out. Now he does say that there will be people with powers in the show, so it makes me wonder what Marvel characters we might see brought to life. As for his role as a consultant to Marvel he explains,

I read all the scripts and I give notes on everything. I'll look at cuts when they're ready to show me. I'll talk to directors if they want to. I try to make myself useful without being intrusive. I've gotten to be a part of all of them. That's a dream job for a kid like me.

Whedon has hit it big with Marvel, but what's crazy to think about is that this is just the beginning for the filmmaker! He's got a whole future of movies and TV shows ahead of him, and I can't wait to see what he ends up giving us! You can watch him talk about the Marvel projects below..

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Interesting, It's like him now to go the regular root of making the sequel bigger, but delving into the characters more. I wonder if the audience will respond to that.

The more I'm hearing about SHIELD the more I'm liking it, since the breakdown of the characters included no super powered people, I wonder if any of the main can't will be superheroes?

 

[Robb Stark]

Well, as a pretty avid comic book reader, the big, notable superheroes who interact the most with S.H.I.E.L.D. are Captain America and, to a lesser extent, Iron Man. For quite a while, the Captain America book near the beginning of Ed Brubaker's run featured Nick Fury and Sharon Carter, both S.H.I.E.L.D. agents (Carter is Cap's primary love interest in the comics, the granddaughter of Peggy Carter from the movie) as the lead supporting characters.

Now, I'm not expecting Chris Evans, Robert Downy Jr. or Samuel L. Jackson to appear more than in the occasional cameo capacity, so I would expect to see the new series be centered around the agents, not the superheroes. But I'd bet heavily that the longer the series goes, the more we'll see of the cast from The Avengers in guest shots.

 

[JCoatsworth]

But I'd bet heavily that the longer the series goes, the more we'll see of the cast from The Avengers in guest shots.

I hope so. But I don't want it to become an Avengers series. I want it to be a show with characters that aren't based on any previously published material. I want it to be Joss' show. That attracts me more to the show than the fact that it has to do with the Avengers. Because I think, as good as the Avengers may be, it's one of his weakest projects, story and character-wise.

 

[Robb Stark]

Because I think, as good as the Avengers may be, it's one of his weakest projects, story and character-wise.

Really? Huh, that surprises me a bit. Story wise, I thought The Avengers was one of his best. Firefly probably has superior characters, but I thought The Avengers was a far better movie than Serenity, and story wise the only Joss-related project I thought was better was the Buffyverse.