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Joss Whedon Talks Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch and Iron Man's Roles in Avengers 2

Joss Whedon is certainly keeping busy with Marvel. Having written and directed the mega-blockbuster, The Avengers, he is now launching Marvel’s first live-action TV show, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., while also preparing Marvel's The Avengers 2.


I spoke to Whedon this week at ABC’s Upfront, where S.H.I.E.L.D. was being announced and asked him a couple of questions about Avengers 2 and some of the characters in it.

Whedon had previously alluded to a brother/sister duo being in the film, which EW later said was indeed Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. When I brought up Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch to Whedon, he confirmed they were the characters in question, explaining, “You know, they had a rough beginning. They’re interesting to me because they sort of represent the part of the world that wouldn’t necessarily agree with The Avengers. So they’re not there to make things easier. I’m not putting any characters in the movie that will make things easier.”

We also know Tony Stark/Iron Man plays another large role in the sequel, but the end of Iron Man 3 saw Tony destroying all the Iron Man suits we knew about, while seemingly stepping back from his time in the armor.

When I asked Whedon if that made it a challenge putting Iron Man in Avengers 2, he remarked, “Well, I feel like in Iron Man 3, even though he said, ‘I’ve changed' -- he blew up his remote suits, but I don’t think anybody thinks he doesn’t have one anymore. The question is, if The Avengers are called, does he show up? And the answer is, ‘Yes!’”

Joss Whedon > Jar Jar Abrams

I can't believe that those characters aren't attached to the X-Men franchise. Smart for Marvel if they kept them out of that deal.

marvel needs to get the x-men and spidey back, I think the FF is damaged goods anymore
in daredevil reboot
let Jessica Alba play Electra

I don't care who she plays as long as she is in the movie.

I suspected as much...

http://www.accesshollywood.com/x-men..._article_79933

The studios worked out a deal. The way it works is that Marvel/Disney is allowed to use them if they don't reference the X-Men and Fox is allowed to use them if they don't reference the Avengers. It'll be interesting to see if Whedon uses the same actor(s), if the characters stay in the script.

I wouldn't be surprised if Whedon dumps them from the script. He can't reference their origin at all, since he can't mention Magneto. And it probably wouldn't be the same actors. Apparently Marvel's now pissed that they characters are appearing for Fox first.

This would all be so cool if Fox didn't have the X-Men/FF/Spider-Man rights. I can only imagine how awesome it would be to have all of the Marvel universe in one film universe. Although Days of Future Past will probably be really good.

I heard Marvel got Blade and Daredevil rights back. reboots!

Punisher, Ghost Rider and I think Luke Cage too.

Damn why can't Marvel and Fox work something out.

Thanos says:
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because Sony/Fox are a franchise ruining bitch.

Knowing Fox, they've probably offered to sell the X-Men franchise back to Marvel, provided they find entirely new actors for the characters, or some such other crap.