Published 17:51 IST, June 23rd 2020
'Avengers' director Joss Whedon says it was an 'unpleasant experience working with Marvel'
It came as a surprise to fans when Avengers director Joss Whedon revealed that his experience working on the movie was unpleasant. Read ahead.
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Hollywood director, Joss Whedon, has given world one of biggest blockbusters of all time with first Avengers movie. It was expected from him to swiftly and slowly rope in second phase of Marvel Cinematic Universe, and direct movie Avengers: of Ultron. However, it came as a surprise when Joss Whedon revealed that his experience working on movie was unpleasant and that he could only see flaws and mistakes in of Ultron part. Read ahead to kw more-
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Joss Whedon opens up about his unpleasant experience
While having a media interaction during promotions of Avengers: of Ultron, director Joss Whedon opened up about creative differences he had with Marvel while making of movie. director revealed that he had to rar fight with m in order to keep certain scenes in movie.
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Joss Wheldon said that dream sequences in movie were t an executive favourite, in fact, t just dreams but also farmhouse, out of many things were things he had to fight to keep. Joss continued to say that with cave, situation really turned into a point where y (Marvel) pointed a gun at farm’s head and said, ‘Give us cave, or we’ll take out farm’, but of course in a civilised way. Joss Wheldon revealed that he sure respects se guys as ir artists, but that’s when it got really, really unpleasant.
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director said that re was additional foot shot for cave sequence in movie, that involved Chris Hemsworth’s character as Thor and Stellan Skarsgard’s character as Dr Erik Selvig. But, scene was edited because test audiences didn’t respond to it. Joss Whedon said that at one point entire scene was removed because Marvel executives said so. He said that he was so beaten down at that point that he wasn’t even sure about what type of a movie are y making.
Joss Whedon also revealed that he wanted Captain Marvel and Spiderman to make cameo appearances towards end of movie. But, Captain Marvel was yet to be cast, and deal that allowed Marvel to use Spiderman in Marvel Comic Universe was still a few months away. Joss Whedon told media that with so much at stake, re’s going be friction, and when he watches movie, he just sees flaws, compromises, laziness, and mistakes.
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17:51 IST, June 23rd 2020