Joss Whedon Discusses His Creative Control In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Talking to The Huffington Post while promoting his latest release, Much Ado About Nothing, director Joss Whedon has revealed a little more about exactly how much creative control the success of The Avengers has resulted in him having with Marvel Studios' upcoming slate of adaptations. Unfortunately, when asked about the online speculation that Clark Gregg's 'Agent Coulson' will be brought back as 'The Vision', he doesn't really address the question! Check out his comments below and sound off with your thoughts in the usual place.

Clark Gregg is in "Much Ado," too. The Internet is saying he could return in the sequel to "The Avengers" as Vision. I don't know how this works. If you wanted that to happen, could you make that happen? Do you have that power?

I have some power, you know? I think there's a level of trust. You know, Kevin Feige and I have always had mutual respect, and on the first movie he was very supportive. But there were definitely things where they were like, "Hmm, we don't see that." And I think now Kevin's in a place where it would be more like, "We don't see it, but we think you do."

Like, "We can't argue with the way the last one did"?

Yeah. And that doesn't mean they're just going to roll over and I'm going to say, "Oh, it's 'Great Lakes Avengers' and we're going to get Squirrel Girl and you're gonna love it." You know, they need to believe. But all I want to do is make the movie that they want. And so it's been great. We're having that same kind of, "What if? Oh, and what if?" And "I was thinking it would be funny ... ooh ooh ooh." There's definitely a level of earned trust, but as with any good studio head or producer, that doesn't mean a free pass.