Whedon almost set for The Avengers

In a case of terrible timing around April Fool’s Day this year, reports teasingly linked Buffy creator Joss Whedon with Marvel’s The Avengers flick.

But what was assumed to be a mean-spirited joke (we hate April Fool’s!), has actually turned out to be a piece of legitimate news, and an amazing win for fanboys everywhere if it all pans out.

Hopefully The Avengers will put that all to rights (c'mon, if anybody needs any vengeance here, it's Whedon).

With all three main players – Iron Man, Thor and Captain America – cast in their own respective projects, it’s easy to see why Marvel are keen to lock them all in for The Avengers as soon as possible.

And we can’t think of anybody we’d rather helm that adventure.

Can you?

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.