It’s not easy putting a movie of The Avengers together. Just ask Joss Whedon…
We can't say we envy the job that Joss Whedon is facing right now. The man charged with putting together and directing Marvel's flagship project, The Avengers, is still at the scripting stage, and he's been talking to SFX about how things are going.
The magazine has, not unwisely, put together a Joss Whedon special, and the man himself has contributed to it. Specifically in relation to The Avengers, he's said,"What I will struggle with, in the outline and throughout, is that I would like to put these actors in a room and just make Glengarry Glen Ross."
He continued, saying, "We're talking about really exciting people and at the same time I have to keep the momentum of the thing going. I can't let it turn into a lull fest. Knowing that I have enough time to do both of those things - that by the end of the movie you will feel ‘in' with these guys - is the trick. It's not an easy one but one that Marvel absolutely honours. They don't hire Mark Ruffalo [the new Hulk] to say one iconic line and strike a pose. They hire him because he has so much humanity in him. He's the antithesis of the iconic actor. He's so human. He was my first choice to play the part, and the fact he is playing the part is nuts! They went to great lengths to make that happen and they understood exactly why he was right for the part."
You can read more from the interview right here.