Joss Whedon Says Avengers: Age Of Ultron Made Him Feel Like 'A Failure'
‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ was indeed a tumultuous project for Joss Whedon.
He’s said in the past how directing the movie took some serious toll, and now he’s doubled down, saying that it made him feel like 'a miserable failure’.
He made the comments during an on-stage conversation with his 'Avengers’ star Mark Ruffalo, who plays The Hulk/Bruce Banner in the Marvel movies, at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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“I sort of created a narrative wherein I had not quite accomplished it… and I think that did a disservice to the movie and to the studio and to myself,” he said.
“The fact that Marvel gave me that opportunity twice is so bonkers… and the fact that I [came] off of it feeling like a miserable failure is also bonkers, but not in a cute way.”
Last year, he revealed that he had serious fights with the Marvel studio and its top brass while making the film.
“I respect these guys, they’re artists, but… it got really, really unpleasant,” he told Empire.
“I was so beaten down at that point that I was like, 'Sure, OK — what movie is this?”
In a later interview, he elaborated: “It’s weird because the first one was very, very, very, hard. This one was much harder. It a little bit broke me.”
The movie coined in just about the same massive box office as the first ‘Avengers’ film - $1.4 billion - but was slightly less well-received by fans and critics.
Whedon added to Ruffalo that he switched off entirely after the experience.
“I took a two-week vacation for the first time in 25 years, except for the four month vacation where I wrote the 'Buffy’ musical. I set out to accomplish nothing,” he said.
The director, who many credit with kicking off the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we now know it, says that his next project will be 'a departure’.
“After 'Ultron,’ there were too many moving parts, and I [felt] I needed to write something that I completely understand, that I’m going to shoot,” he said.
“It’s definitely a departure — not from the things I care about — but from the kind of storytelling I’ve done.”
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