“The dreams were not an executive favorite — the dreams, the farmhouse, these were things I fought to keep,” Whedon said of the horrific visions induced by Scarlet Witch and the rural sequence with Hawkeye’s family. “With the cave, it really turned into: they pointed a gun at the farm’s head and said, ‘Give us the cave, or we’ll take out the farm,’ — in a civilized way. I respect these guys, they’re artists, but that’s when it got really, really unpleasant.”
Ironically, after the scene was shot and integrated into the film, test audiences didn’t respond well to it — as most regular audiences experienced this weekend as well — and Disney execs wanted it excised entirely, with Thor’s absence referenced verbally but not visually.
Joss Whedon describes battles with Marvel over ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’
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Whedon just quit Twitter.
He was hounded off by trolls, abusing him about Age of Ultron and specifically the lack of strong female characters
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Here are some of the Tweets he got…
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OH MY GOD!! Wow. Just…wow. I’ve never seen MCU Zombies at this level. This is unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my life. Just disgusting. Those aren’t people, they’re mindless zombies. I’m a huge Marvel comics fan and I feel disgusted to be associated with them in any way
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WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!! This man is doing an AMAZING job. I am on Ultron’s side. We humans suck and we should be destroyed for acting like this.
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No wonder he’s still interested in directing a DC movie.