Joss Whedon, the wonderful mind behind perhaps the greatest television series in history with Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, the Academy Award nominated co-screenwriter of the first Toy Story finally hit it huge last year for writing and directing Marvel's The Avengers. While I'm averse to many big studio things, and more than a few franchises, and comic book vigilantes, and well...lots of things, Whedon helming a big budget franchise can lead to nothing but good things. Not so much that The Avengers was the best thing in the world (even though it's fair to say that without the wit, humor, humanity and genre-bashing skillery of Mr. Whedon, it would have likely been the blueprint cog that many of the proceeding films felt like), but it because now as the director of one of the biggest movies ever, it gets a free ride for a bit...
...and that can be only good. For only a man of his quirks and endless imagination would film a black and white modern version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in the midst of an Avengers break. God bless him, and let's all hope that his Marvel duties don't impede on him too much. The film opens this June after receiving kind words from the Toronto Film Festival last year and SXSW last month. Here's the trailer...spot out all the past Whedon alums.
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