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Joss a Theory
Oct. 25th, 2011 05:57 amSo I guess many of you have heard that somehow Joss Whedon was able to run off to Santa Monica and film a black and white indie version of Much Ado About Nothing with such Whedonian stalwarts as Nathan Filion and Amy Acker. But the interesting thing to me is that the cast also includes Clark Gregg, aka Agent Coulson of SHIELD, who is also an accomplished stage actor.
I have a theory. After making The Avengers, Joss missed being Joss. Missed being the guy who works with smaller budgets and stars will lower profiles and characters actors. And that after coping with big name Hollywood people, he walked away from RDJ and Samuel L. Jackson and thought, "boy, it would be nice to do some Shakespeare with Clark Gregg."
In other words, maybe Joss didn't really like his first big time work-for-hire gig, and was more impressed with the actor with the cult following than with the stars.
So if The Avengers turns out to be a little disappointing, this is the reason why (though I hope I am wrong). And if we don't see Joss taking another assignment like Avengers again, this is also why.
Personally, despite not being sure that Alexis Denisof and Amy Acker will be a great Benedick and Beatrice, I think I would rather see Joss doing a low budget reimagining of the Bard anyway. He seems to do better with low budget. (Though rumor suggests he also had one on Avengers.) I just hope that his take on Much Ado finds a distributor.
I have a theory. After making The Avengers, Joss missed being Joss. Missed being the guy who works with smaller budgets and stars will lower profiles and characters actors. And that after coping with big name Hollywood people, he walked away from RDJ and Samuel L. Jackson and thought, "boy, it would be nice to do some Shakespeare with Clark Gregg."
In other words, maybe Joss didn't really like his first big time work-for-hire gig, and was more impressed with the actor with the cult following than with the stars.
So if The Avengers turns out to be a little disappointing, this is the reason why (though I hope I am wrong). And if we don't see Joss taking another assignment like Avengers again, this is also why.
Personally, despite not being sure that Alexis Denisof and Amy Acker will be a great Benedick and Beatrice, I think I would rather see Joss doing a low budget reimagining of the Bard anyway. He seems to do better with low budget. (Though rumor suggests he also had one on Avengers.) I just hope that his take on Much Ado finds a distributor.
