Joss Whedon is currently busy with production on the hotly-anticipated sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron, but if Iron Man 3 screenwriter Drew Pearce is to be believed, it seems that Whedon will be reuniting with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes once again in Phase Three for The Avengers 3…
“One of the things when you’re a writer or director in the Marvel universe is you come in, you leave some tasty morsels dangling at the end, and maybe you’re the one who comes in and picks them up again next time, or maybe it’s someone else, or maybe they just hang there awhile and that’s fine too,” Pearce told Movies.com when asked if there are any plans to build on the conclusion of the latest Marvel One-Shot All Hail the King. “Despite any cliffhanger-ness to the short, I also don’t feel like it’s unsatisfying. That’s all you can really hope to do. Unless you’re Joss [Whedon] and you’re making Avengers 2 and 3, and then you have a pretty good idea if you’re making the next one or not.”
So, it would appear that unless The Avengers: Age of Ultron tanks hard (which, let’s face it, isn’t going to happen) that Whedon will be back in the director’s chair once again to complete the Avengers trilogy. Meanwhile, The Avengers: Age of Ultron is set for release on May 1st 2015 with Whedon directing a cast that includes MCU veterans Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Mark Ruffalo (The Incredible Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury) and Paul Bettany (JARVIS / The Vision) alongside new additions Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass 2) as Quicksilver, Elizabeth Olsen (Oldboy) as the Scarlet Witch, James Spader (The Blacklist) as Ultron and Thomas Kretschmann (Dracula) as Baron Strucker.
