Talking to SFX (via The Hollywod Reporter), Joss Whedon revealed that working on Avengers: Age of Ultron was quite a challenge, and it's no wonder he's not keen on returning for the two-part Avengers: Infinity War. "Shoot me in the face! It is a nightmare," he revealed. "I long for the simple movies like Serenity! This is the hardest juggling act I have ever, ever tried to pull off." That doesn't sound good, but the filmmaker made similar comments after the first movie, so there's every chance he could return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe somewhere down the line (Captain Marvel please, Joss?). As for where the sequel picks up with the team, Whedon added: "They’re very disparate characters. The joy of the Avengers is they really don’t belong in the same room. It’s not like the X-Men who are all tortured by the same thing and have similar costumes. These guys are just all over the place. And so it’s tough. Honestly, this is as though as anything I’ve ever done, and I haven’t worked this hard since I had three shows on the air."
The Avengers helped to make the Hulk a fan-favourire character, but he still hasn't received his own solo outing. It's lucky then that his role in the sequel will be much bigger! "There is more Hulk in this movie than there was in the last first," Whedon revealed. "But what I’m excited about is we shot this movie very differently. I was running a lot of cameras, I was shooting long lenses, which I don’t usually do." The plan apparently was to shoot some of these scenes like a documentary, giving fans a more realistic look at the Green Goliath in action. "What I love is we have the opportunity, because we went in with this mission statement, to shoot the Hulk like a character in a movie, and not like a ‘Look what we’ve got!’ We have ‘overs’ – blurry ‘Hulk’s over there! Bits, very quick shots. Everything isn’t ‘We built the Hulk so for god’s sake you’re going to watch him in this long take, full frame, the whole time!’ We really got to make him one of the characters in the movie. And that was a gift." What do you guys think of these comments from Whedon?
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