Jon Favreau's Thoughts On Joss Whedon Helming The Avengers!

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Kudos on FAV, he's an alright guy, great for him supporting WHEDON!!!

Wouldn't want FAV though, as much as i like the dude, i reckon he'd want WAR MACHINE in it too much lol! ; D

Awesome guy though!

Morena Baccarin for WASP! : P

Oh and WILSON or FILLION for PYM! ; D

Thanks again Josh. :O

I'm still not completely sold on Whedon. I'm sure he could do a great job but I can't shake the image of this happening.

superdog: Favreau took himself out of the running a long time ago. Too many other projects and I don't realy think he wanted to mess with Thor.

I just hope its a great movie. We've been waiting so hopefully its not an EPIC FAIL. We kno the characters so they should have an AWESOME storyline that would carry and not rely on big names and special effects.

finger crossed cuz I like Whedon

I equate Whedon's destruction of the X-Men to George Bush's destruction of the national debt. Haven't read a single issue of X-Men since. Eff that guy.

Lol...that cartoon is hilarious everytime.

I think people confuse Whedon's flair for cheese. Obviously, a show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer was meant to be tounge in cheek, as was Angel. In Firefly and Serenity he did a great job of keeping his trademark humor, but it was very subtle and clever. That may serve him well for Avengers.

Yeah I hope he gets it..but I agree that he should tone down his Whedoness for it a bit! As much as I like Fav, and as much as I enjoyed IM2 I'm actually kind of glad he's not doing Avengers. He really struggles in IM2 to maintain a pace and doesn't seem comfortable with a lot of supporting characters, so I'm not sure how he would fare dealing with 4 or 5 main characters. Whedon does it brilliantly.

i would rather see favrue direct it,and bring in hulk/banner,abomination,leader,and end with ultron. then bring ultron and vision i nto the sequel with hawkeye,and giantman,and in the third use the skrull.

I agree with Tea. Hilarious.

Ryden@ I still don't get how some like to downplay television actors. Many of them are better than some of the big screen actors, and just for clarity sake, Fillion also has quite a bit of big screen acting experience.

I am all for Whedon taking the helm of the Avengers as he knows how to take a diverse cast of characters who are at odds with each other and mold them into a team that works together.

With Whedon directing and Favreau checking I think everything looks good, I support this idea.

Anil@ We greatly disagree as I see his strength as having great character development and representation. I think he was masterful in the way he developed the characters in Firefly. I also like it when someone isn't afraid to have main characters killed off. Having a completely happy ending where everyone survives isn't necessarily realistic. As much as I was pissed at the main characters who died in Serenity, looking back on it, I appreciate the fact that realistically not everyone is going to make it through what they did. I'll take that any day over a sappy, everyone lives scenario.

@Ranger- "I still don't get how some like to downplay television actors. Many of them are better than some of the big screen actors, and just for clarity sake, Fillion also has quite a bit of big screen acting experience."

Because the vast majority are bland and generic and Fillon IMO is the personification of that. I'm not saying every actor who has ever been a TV star or who IS a tv actor is crap, I'm just saying that the kind of actor Fillon is, is the generic and bland TV actor..like Damien Lewis etc I hate THAT kind of TV actor.

But if you look at shows like the Sopranos or True Blood, HBO has the best Tv in my opinion, they have actors with real skill and are of a much higer calibur.

These TV actors are fine for the TV they're suited to, that's the only time thye're enjoyable, except Fillon because everything I've seen him in has been sh!t but I won't hold that against him....okay..maybe I will.

You mention how Fillon has been in a number of films but were any of these films any good?

Nope.

And before you say it, yeah I know he was in Saving Private Ryan..but he was barley in it and he stunk up the screen.

Regardless of that anyway, it's really not Whedon's place to cast Fillon as Pym because it's not his character, it's Edgar Wright's. And so if anyone is getting cast as Pym he'd have to okay it first.

Tea@ When did you meet Fillion? :P