Joss Whedon

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Are there any other superhero franchises you’d like to re-cook if you had the time…? Wonder Woman could use a hand…

Actually, no. I think if you’d asked me a few years ago I’d say yeah, but to me I really like working in comics; so many of my friends who work in movies just tell me horror stories. You’ve got to look at Joss Whedon as the perfect example. Joss is one of the best writers on the planet. Brilliant guy, great writer, excellent director, white hot - and they brought him on to Wonder Woman. And they just wasted two years of his life. He didn’t have time to do anything else. He handed in a really good Wonder Woman script that just really got picked apart and ended up just not happening. And you never get those two years back.

And then on top of that, I hate collaboration. I really can’t stand it. For me, it’s enough just to have me and the artist, and the artist is always a friend of mine who I hand-pick, someone I trust entirely like Brian Hitch or John Romita Jr….people I know. But the idea of giving the project up to three hundred other guys…and any one of them, the actors, the producers, anyone, can make a decision that can ruin it forever.

So I don’t feel tempted that way, and I get lots of offers. I never really had that ambition, but I’ve been asked to re-vamp quite a lot of things; a few comic-book things but quite a few classic movies, childhood-favourite movies that they were doing remakes of, and so on. And I just said no – if I want to see that, I’ll just go to my DVD shelf and watch them again. I just think it’s a huge waste of time, and I would rather just create a new thing, rather than go and re-do an old franchise.

It’s been fun to do comics, but I think I’ve done that; done the Ultimates and re-vamped a lot of those characters and so on. I’d rather just do some new stuff like Wanted or Kick-Ass, and just put some new things into the pop-culture pot.

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