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With Marvel recently signing a deal with Joss Whedon to return for ‘The Avengers 2′ as well as both help develop a live-action ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ series for Marvel Television at ABC, and contribute creatively to the next phase of Marvel’s cinematic universe, The Huffington Post spoke to the filmmaker while he was out and about promoting his (sort of) modern-day Shakespeare adaptation ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’ In the interview, Whedon was asked about his “power” over at Marvel considering this new deal, “I have some power, you know? I think there’s a level of trust. You know, Kevin Feige and I have always had mutual respect, and on the first movie he was very supportive. But there were definitely things where they were like, “Hmm, we don’t see that.” And I think now Kevin’s in a place where it would be more like, “We don’t see it, but we think you do.”

Considering the humongous success of his ‘The Avengers’ movie, Joss Whedon answered the question, “Like, “We can’t argue with the way the last one did”?” With, “Yeah. And that doesn’t mean they’re just going to roll over and I’m going to say, “Oh, it’s ‘Great Lakes Avengers’ and we’re going to get Squirrel Girl and you’re gonna love it.” You know, they need to believe. But all I want to do is make the movie that they want. And so it’s been great. We’re having that same kind of, “What if? Oh, and what if?” And “I was thinking it would be funny … ooh ooh ooh.” There’s definitely a level of earned trust, but as with any good studio head or producer, that doesn’t mean a free pass.”

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Seeing as there’s been a deluge of major developments from Marvel recently and this month sees the DVD and Blu-ray release of ‘The Avengers,’ expect a tonne of ‘The Avengers,’ ‘The Avenger 2,’ and Marvel related quotes from director Joss Whedon in the coming weeks. While promoting his (sort of) modern-day Shakespeare adaptation ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Whedon spoke to 24 Hours on his role as a an ‘overseer’ for Marvel’s “Phase 2″, “Very talented people are writing and directing these movies, and what I don’t want to be is the guy they dread, who’s going to come in and say” – here, Whedon affects a pompous British accent – “‘Oh, well I have the power to say change this.’ I’m not that.”

Widely praised by fans and critics alike, Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’ is currently sitting comfortably at the third spot on the all-time world box office list with a hefty haul of $1,507.4 billion, trailing only James Cameron’s ’Titanic’ ($2.185 billion) and ‘Avatar’ ($2.782 billion). Marvel recently signed a deal for Whedon to return for ‘The Avengers 2′ as well as help develop a live-action ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ series for Marvel Television at ABC.  The filmmaker will also contribute creatively to the next phase of Marvel’s cinematic universe. The tentatively-titled ‘The Avengers 2′ will follow ’Iron Man 3,’ ‘Thor: The Dark World,’ ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier,’ ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ and presumably hopefully Edgar Wright’s ‘Ant-Man.’ Marvel Studios has set a May 1st, 2015 release date for ‘The Avengers 2.’

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With the DVD and Blu-ray release of ‘The Avengers’ fast approaching and following last weekends news that Marvel’s superhero blockbuster reached the immense figure of $1.5 billion worldwide, Samuel L. Jackson caught up with The Age to speak on working with director Joss Whedon, researching Nick Fury, ‘The Avengers’ cast, donning Nick Fury’s costume and makeup, and more. Talking about his experience on the ‘The Avengers’ with Whedon, Jackson shared, “Joss Whedon is very good at what he does. He’s incredibly smart, and he’s a great director and writer. The script was constantly evolving. We would get eight or nine pages, and two days later he would say, “I was thinking about that… Now it should be this.” Once you look at it all on screen, it all comes together – and it’s very nice.” Continuing why he thought Whedon’s ‘The Avengers’ script worked so well, the actor said, “Joss knows more about the comic book genre than most people, especially within this particular franchise. He has an understanding of the relationships of the characters and he understands the Marvel world. He put the story and the characters together in a very unique and wonderful way.”

Touching on his research for Nick Fury, Samuel L. Jackson shared the following, “I’ve been reading the Fury comics since I was a kid. I remember when it was Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos in the War World II war comic books. That’s when I was introduced to him, and then I moved on. Then all of a sudden, I pick up an Avengers comic book and I was like, “Hey, that’s me!” It’s amazing. It’s great.” The actor also talked about the hair, makeup and costume for Nick Fury, shedding some light on a change to the characters appearance, “At a certain point in the production, it only took the makeup team 20 minutes to put on the eye patch and scars. However, the first time it took about an hour-and-a-half because we had to go back and forth to Joss. We’d have to ask things like, “Is this too much? Is this not enough?” We actually changed the scar to the comic book scar for this movie, which is something that a few people have noticed. If you look at the Iron Man and Thor movies, the scar looks like two little cat scratches.”

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