In a recent interview with The OxFord Union, one that flew under everyone’s radar, is a interview that holds a great bit of information for the Marvel Cinematic Universe going forward. CBR caught wind of it, and now the world knows that Joss Whedon will no longer be apart of the MCU. In the hour long Q&A with The OxFord Whedon elaborated on what triggered his departure from Marvel.
…I was their sort of consigliere for a while… We do not discuss our thing… [audience laughter] But, I sort of had my finger in all of the films in the second phase, but then I just had to concentrate only on Ultron, and sort of know when it was done I was just going to stop. So I made a completely clean break – not because we had a falling out – just because I was like, ‘I can’t…’ If I was still there going, ‘Well, here are my thoughts on this film,’ I’d be there every day. I wouldn’t do anything else because there are a lot of films, and it is a lot of fun. It’s very seductive. When you can put your little fairy dust on things and just improve them slighty, and they actually listen to you… I was a script doctor for a long time, and the part where they listen to you was very rare; so it was very important for my own self to go ‘we can still be friends,’ but…
You can watch the interview with Whedon in full below.
