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Joss Whedon Talks THE AVENGERS' Challenges Writing, Filming And Post-Production Stages |
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Monday, 23 January 2012 15:20 |
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In addition to the reveal of new photos, inside the latest Empire magazine, in which four of Earth's Mightiest heroes cover, Marvel's The Avengers movie director-writer Joss Whedon discussed the "300-million behemoth, once-in-a-generation blockbuster," as Empire describes. Courtesy of Alicehills, and transcribed by yours truly.
Dotting on the challenge of penning a story servicing each characters' existing storylines, as well their future solo ventures, Whedon says:
"It was an up-all-month job. Finding the characters' voices was not only easy, but glorious fun - it doesn't suck to write Tony Stark - yet finding the structure was just brutal. I haven't had that much trouble making a screenplay work since Serenity, and embarrassingly, for the exact same reason: there's just too many characters."
Rehashing on initially approaching the story as "Iron Man and friends," Whedon assures us that:
"It's a full ensemble. Some people may feel they're a little more marginal, but nobody was counting the Read more: |
