Joss Whedon Felt Like A “Failure” After Age Of Ultron
Joss Whedon is the man who brought us the first two Avengers films, both of which were incredibly well done films that shattered box office records. However, the second Avengers film, Age of Ultron, was more criticized than the original, and didn’t make as much either. It’s been well documented that Whedon didn’t have as much control as he had in the previous film. Apparently this really affected him after it was over. As he told Variety:
“I am very proud of it [but] The things about it that are wrong frustrate me enormously, and I had probably more of those than I had on the other movies I made.”
“I was so beaten down by the process,” Whedon explained. “Some of that was conflicting with Marvel, which is inevitable. A lot of it was about my own work, and I was also exhausted […] I think that did a disservice to the movie and the studio and to myself.”
He does note though that he did have fun with the film:
“But I also got to make, for the second time, an absurdly personal movie that talked about how I felt about humanity, and what it means, in very esoteric and bizarre ways, for hundreds of billions of dollars. The fact that Marvel gave me that opportunity is so bonkers, and so beautiful, and the fact that I come off of it feeling like a miserable failure, is also bonkers, but not in a cute way.”