Exclusive: Joss Whedon tells us, while promoting The Cabin In The Woods, that Marvel was a hands-off parent with The Avengers movie...
We had the pleasure of chatting to the mighty Joss Whedon a week or two back, on his promotional tour for the long-awaited The Cabin In The Woods.
The Cabin In The Woods finally makes it to cinemas in April, and we'll be talking about it a lot in the month or two ahead. But we thought you'd like to hear what Mr Whedon said about The Avengers/Avengers Assemble in our chat.
The news, it seems, is good. When we asked him about his relationship with Marvel on the movie, he told us that "they really did let me make my own film".
He continued: "They said, ‘here are the things we need; here is the villain, we want this to happen; we need the conflict here; here’s the third act, it will involve the following’. Which I’m fine with. That’s great, give me the parameters, because then I know where I’m going, and it does some of the legwork for me. And I know what their agenda is in terms of style, and what we’re delivering, in terms of thrills and the adherence to the Marvel universe, with which I’m very familiar."
He continued: "But it was like comics, because they didn’t interfere. I told them ‘this is the kind of movie I want to make’, and they said ‘all right, make that movie’. And that is what happened. And they were as unmeddlesome as any studio I’ve ever worked with, even though they had the very strict touchstones that had to happen. So it was a weirdly free experience."
Which sounds like good news.
We'll be running the full interview closer to The Cabin In The Woods' April release. There is much to look forward to. Our review of the film is here.
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