favouriteflavour said:Should try for JJ Abraham. He works ensemble casts well and has a good action eye.
favouriteflavour said:Should try for JJ Abraham. He works ensemble casts well and has a good action eye.
He is still better and more talented than Joss Whedon.Discotheque said:Hell nah. Keep that guy away from everything please. His MI3 wasn't too bad though.
Discotheque said:I find it strange that Marvel is giving this project to somebody so...unsafe like Whedon though. And the fact that they were considering Leterrier before is even more telling. Why is this project being treated so lightly?
I don't think it will be very good anyways, Marvel over-saturation at it's best here.
Rahnter said:I think Whedon will be great for this, and should even have his hand in the script as well. I don't get all the hate. His attention to character development has always been great, but I guess no one wants that in their comic book movies. The man knows and loves the medium, has shown he's competent with established characters, and has even written for them (well, if I may add). What else do you want?
edit- And how exactly is he unsafe? The only series that was shit was Dollhouse, however S2 was very good. The bulk of the blame lies with Dushku.
PhoncipleBone said:I want all dialogue by Whedon excised. His story ideas and characters are cool, I will give him that, but once they speak in their cool hip dialogue and references all the time, I just want to stab my ears with an icepick. I know he loves the medium and has written for them, but that doesn't change the fact that he is overrated.
zoukka said:I don't understand why people want somewhat talented directors to film classic source material.
slade said:So, Black Widow to be insanely overpowered in the Avengers movie? I'll laugh if she starts trading blows with the Hulk.
zoukka said:I don't understand why people want talented directors to film crappy source material.
TeethMummy said:In this thread, several people have used the term "whedonverse" in a serious manner. This enrages me.
And I second the JJ Abrams suggestion.
TeethMummy said:In this thread, several people have used the term "whedonverse" in a serious manner. This enrages me.
TeethMummy said:In this thread, several people have used the term "whedonverse" in a serious manner. This enrages me.
Fresh off his Oscar nod for The Hurt Locker, Jeremy Renner is apparently in final negotiations to star as Hawkeye in Marvel's Joss Whedon-directed Avengers movie.
After all the careful groundwork that Marvel Studios has laid the last few years, and after the way they've built this great cast film after film, they're going to make a colossal misstep at the finish line. According to Marvel sources, the company has decided that they are going to cast "an unknown" to play Bruce Banner and The Hulk in the film.
I sat down with Norton at SXSW this year, and one of the things we discussed was this exact scenario. At the time, he seemed to me to be interested in being part of "The Avengers" if the script and the director came together in an interesting way. This was before Whedon was hired, so it was all just hypothetical. Thing is, according to these same sources, Whedon's been meeting the cast, laying out his plans for the film, and so far everyone seems incredibly excited by what they're hearing. Hell, James Gunn and Nathon Fillion were Tweeting recently about how they hung out with Joss and what they heard convinced them that "The Avengers" is going to be insane.
One of the people who Whedon met with was Norton, and I'd love to know what they talked about. What I do know is that both Whedon and Norton reported their enthusiasm back to Marvel, and according to some calls I made today, it even sounds like Norton was making serious plans with his agency to keep his dates clear. And then...
... nothing. Marvel made a decision to hire an unknown, and they informed Norton that they won't be using him in the film. And that is evidently that.
BattleMonkey said:Have we really ever seen Whedon direct anything he didn't mostly write though?
Personally hes awful with actual stories, it's characters that people like about his work.
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Teh Hamburglar said:Buffy The Vampire Slayer :lol By the time the studio got done chewing up his script it wasn't even what he wrote and he pretty much said "This isn't mine anymore."
I for one am disappointed, but not surprised by the news. Norton wants to play the role, but apparently is a control freak. If he works for less and is more hands off, they should let him play the role again.Grizzlyjin said:Is anyone really that surprised that Norton won't be coming back as Banner? Let's be honest, his portrayal of Bruce Banner isn't really a make it or break it deal for most people. It's not like RDJ as Iron Man. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if The Avengers is 95% Hulk, and 5% Bruce.
Grizzlyjin said:Is anyone really that surprised that Norton won't be coming back as Banner? Let's be honest, his portrayal of Bruce Banner isn't really a make it or break it deal for most people. It's not like RDJ as Iron Man. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if The Avengers is 95% Hulk, and 5% Bruce.