Joss Whedon knows that he’s taken on a huge task with THE AVENGERS.
The cool thing about Whedon though is that he actually gives two shits about his characters. His craft becomes personal and he still suffers some heartaches, especially with the cancellation of FIREFLY, “still the greatest grief I have about my career.”
Whedon has been through the ups and down of creativity and at one point thought that a project like this would never come his way, “But maybe I’m not going to get my shot to reach a mass audience. But then I got The Avengers. So, clearly, I’m an idiot.”
In this gal’s opinion, Whedon has a great handle on the universe that he creates, but this one is crazy and constantly evolving, “Right now I’m working on a movie that’s got enormous stipulations and is going to be changing and fluid every second. I’ve come up with dozens of scenes and lines and exchanges and monologues that I adore that are not going to be in it,” he says of The Avengers. “But while I’m writing them they feed me, excite me and they ultimately inform the character. It all goes in.”
However, this is something he’s been ready for, “He describes directing The Avengers as the job “I’ve waited for my whole life” but says in the same breath that if it was cancelled tomorrow, “I’d go join my family on the vacation I’m not on and start working on things I’ve put on hold to do this.” Sanguine or fatalistic? “I have always felt, my whole life, that everything could be taken away at any second. It has actually been a huge problem for me that I know that. I certainly will do everything in my power not to have that happen, everything in my power to make it good. That’s my power, that’s all I’ve got. All I can do is make it good enough for somebody to see it twice.”
It’s a big job, but somebody’s gotta do it. To check out the interview in its entirety, head on over here.