Joss Whedon recently spoke to SFX Magazine for their “SFX Worlds of Whedon” special about
bringing The Avengers
to the big screen.
“What I
will struggle with, in the outline and throughout, is that I would like to put
these actors in a room and just make Glengarry Glen Ross,” he laughs. “We’re
talking about really exciting people and at the same time I have to keep the
momentum of the thing going. I can’t let it turn into a lull fest. Knowing that
I have enough time to do both of those things – that by the end of the movie
you will feel ‘in’ with these guys – is the trick. It’s not an easy one but one
that Marvel absolutely honours. They don’t hire Mark Ruffalo [the new Hulk] to
say one iconic line and strike a pose. They hire him because he has so much
humanity in him. He’s the antithesis of the iconic actor. He’s so human. He was
my first choice to play the part, and the fact he is playing the part is nuts!
They went to great lengths to make that happen and they understood exactly why
he was right for the part.”