Why Marvel picked Joss Whedon over Jon Favreau for Avengers



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Uh - I'm gonna go with "because one is Joss Whedon and the other, no offense, is Jon Favreau". I mean he seems like he'd be fun to play cards with and everything but come on!




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Yeah, it's not long enough for me to call it a full-on trailer. But it's a teaser! Hey, it's short OK? But so is Ant-Man! Whedon's Avengers! Commence geeky orgasmic freakout... now!
Never again. And the dead one - of course - s the happy, faithful, optimistic, cheer-everyone-up one. The one who had the mini-series,, with the Fairy Tales and pirates and stuff. The "life is pain, I'm the best there is at stuff that sucks, weep weep growl" guy is cursed to walk the earth forever.
In, like, 40 concurrent books at a time.
What kind of Heroic Age is it going to be without the fuzzy elf? Can't Hope like, I dunno, "Phoenix" him back or something? Or Dracula, if that vampire thing is still happening?
With Beast departing for the Secret Avengers, and Nightcrawler for that great circus where your sister is your girlfriend in the sky, the X-Men's color palette is sadly lacking in blue.
Remember Avengers: United We Stand? It was cute, with all the D-Listers wondering if they could ever live up to the Avengers legend and all that?
This ain't that. This is designed to get you drooling for the Avengers movie, which Marvel clearly is convinced is going to re-define both the company and comics movies for the new generation. It's way too soon to tell whether that's actually gonna happen or they'll trip on their own ambition.