Fan Rants

Last weekend at C2E2 I was lucky enough to meet Joel Watson from the Hijinks Ensue webcomic. I have been a fan for years and read their comic daily so it was a real treat for me.

Today’s comic is based around the news that Joss Whedon has been confirmed as the director of the Marvel Comics film The Avengers. He is also going to be doing re-writes on that film and Captain America. Obviously Joel captured many of our trepidation of this news.

Well it looks like Marvel has found their director for the upcoming Avengers film, Joss Whedon! I can just hear all the Buffy fans and Browncoats yipping in glee right about now.

Deadline New York reports that Marvel Studios is in final negotiations with Joss to direct the biggest Superhero film of all time. The film is going to be fast tracked for release May of 2012. Right now we are expecting Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and maybe the Hulk (Edward Norton).

This is an interesting choice, considering that Joss is better known for character creation and writing than he is for directing. But he has had some great success with the Marvel line over the last few years, in particularly the X-Men franchise with The Astonishing X-Men.

Frankly I was hoping he would take on the Runaways movie (not the Joan Jett biopic) coming from Marvel next year.  He was one of the writers for the second volume of this excellent Marvel comics series and definitely his forte with young characters. But I am quite happy to see him taking the lead on this diverse property and wish him the best on this film.

This just in from E!Online.

Joss Whedon, master of my universe, is teaming up with director and filmmaker Morgan Spurlock to make a documentary about fans that attend the San Diego Comic-con.

“They want to follow people for about three months leading up to this year’s Comic-Con,” the source said. “And then they want to film them there. They’re looking at all types of people.”

I will stay on top of this and as soon as I figure how they will be choosing the subjects I will pass it along.