“The Following Avengers Will Die…” – Joss Whedon On The Red Carpet For JDIFF

Joss Whedon, director of the Avengers and creator of Buffy and Angel was on the red carpet last weekend ahead of the screening for his take on the Shakespeare classic Much Ado About Nothing. Eventually making it through a substantial autographing session, Whedon chatted to Her.ie about the movie and his upcoming projects.

Whedon decided that Much Ado would be the perfect project to work on “Well it’s really the sequel to the Avengers, but only in my mind. You want to do the complete opposite; it was a homecoming project. I really like the text, it’s really funny. For some reason, when the Avengers ended it just read differently to me. I found something in it I had never seen before and once I saw that, I knew I had a movie.”

The movie is filmed entirely in black and white, something that directors tend to shy away from these days, although Whedon had his reasons: “well, it really is a film noir. It sort of ping pongs from very dark to very silly and I felt like the black and white really gave it the elegance from the period.”

The director spoke about his new project S.H.I.E.L.D., which they have just finished filming “It went really well and I think it was brilliantly directed (laughs). It hasn’t been picked up just yet but we are pretty hopeful.”

The question on everyone’s lips,  and probably the one Whedon is completely sick of, was of course concerning the upcoming Avengers sequel “I can’t really anything really. The following Avengers will die (laughs)... I am really excited. There’s not really one thing I can say!”

Unfortunately, Whedon confirmed there was no real plans to return to the much-loved Buffy series: “There’s no one really talking about it. They went off to do other things, you know. I am a big fan myself!”

Whedon went on to give one of the greatest Q&A’s in JDIFF history to a packed cinema of pure fans. Much Ado About Nothing will get a release in Ireland in June 2013.