Joss Whedon Says He Earned More From DR. HORRIBLE Than He Did From THE AVENGERS

Okay, defenders of Marvel, since you guys know all, whos the bad guy?

Sounds like Perlmutter's handiwork to me. Good thing he has no say so in Marvel Studios anymore.

FINALLY! @Jollem has revealed himself as a DC TROLL/FANBOY! FINALLY! YES!

1. If he felt he was underpaid why did he sign the contract?

2. Why would Marvel overpay for a guy that had directed 1 movie in his career that was a financial failure?

Folks need to remember that, before Disney bought everything Marvel, Marvel Studio was an independent film production company. Compared to, say, DC's relationship with WB, Marvel Studios was an unaffiliated minor league baseball team to DC/WB's NY Yankees. The fact that Iron Man turned out so well was a miracle. Plus, most of that financial success was thanks to Paramount's marketing, so they got a big, big slice if the profits.

Whedon was hired before the Disney deal was finalized, and I imagine was paid similarly to the other MCU directors. (Probably on par with what Favreau and Leterrier got for IM and TIH, less than Branagh got for Thor and Favs got for IM2, if I had to guess.) Joss is a geek god, but he had very little directing clout before Avengers. He'd only ever directed one feature film that didn't make much of a splash, and some of his own TV stuff. As much as Marvel Studios gets criticized for following a formula or not taking chances creatively, they've made some HUGE gambles financially, and hiring Joss to direct the centerpiece of their franchise might've been the biggest. At the same time, it was also a canny finacial decision, because the money they saved by not hiring a bigger paycheck director went towards the film itself. Damn, that Feige's a smart guy.

Doctor Horrible, on the other hand, Joss self-produced and sold online, so yeah, any profits went directly into his pocket without sharing them with a movie studio or distributor. So people are taking it out of context. I don't think Whedon is bitching, he's just sharing one of the idiosyncrasies of the entertainment industry: a tiny-budgeted independent project can make a much bigger profit than a huge blockbuster. It's the only reason small, independent projects manage to still exist at all.

@Jollem- im not justifying marvel being cheap or screwing over certain actors i just dont take this complaint seriously when odds are he still made a lot of money.