{"id":27884,"date":"2012-05-12T20:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/bring-whedon-back-for-avengers-2.html"},"modified":"2014-01-08T13:50:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T20:50:26","slug":"bring-whedon-back-for-avengers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/bring-whedon-back-for-avengers-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Bring Whedon back for &quot;Avengers 2&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know, Joss almost certainly has a lot of good original personal movies he&#39;d like to do.  And Marvel&#39;s had a tendency to lowball directors and churn them away for others on the next installment.<\/p>\n<p>But I think both parties would benefit greatly from Marvel ponying up the big bucks probably necessary to draw Joss back.  And I think we all would benefit greatly from it, too.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcollider.com%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Ffeatured-thumbs-a%2Fhead_84.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/collider.com\/the-avengers-2-sequel-joss-whedon\/165606\/'>Editorial: Marvel Needs to Re-Hire Joss Whedon for THE AVENGERS 2 Sequel<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt explains why The Avengers 2 Sequel needs Joss Whedon, and why Marvel should break from their trend of changing out directors, and re-hire Whedon.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/fYruWvUkYXT' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know, Joss almost certainly has a lot of good original personal movies he&#39;d like to do. And Marvel&#39;s had a tendency to lowball directors and churn them away for others on the next installment. But I think both parties would benefit greatly from Marvel ponying up the big bucks probably necessary to draw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/bring-whedon-back-for-avengers-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bring Whedon back for &quot;Avengers 2&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marvel-cinematic-universe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30005,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/joss-whedon-co-writer-of-shield.html","url_meta":{"origin":27884,"position":0},"title":"Joss Whedon: Co-Writer of SHIELD","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Aug-12 9:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That's the Marvel\/Avengers-related TV project that Whedon was said to be involved in.It's a brilliant decision, since it allows plenty of relatively-low-budget still-superheroic style action, lets Joss lay the seeds for Avengers 2 and the rest of the Marvel sequels, and ... well, SHIELD is just damned cool. 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