Joss Whedon has revealed quite a bit over the past few weeks now that he’s essentially done with Marvel for the time being. One of the biggest reveals came when he was a recent guest on the Empire Podcast. Joss says he pitched an idea for Spider-Man and Captain Marvel to be in “Avengers: Age of Ultron” which obviously didn’t happen.
One of the interesting things to take away from the quote however is that Joss revealed Sony had approached Marvel about integrating Spider-Man into the MCU sometime during production for the first Avengers film.
“I wanted all of those people. I said, ‘It would be great if we could just add a few more. If we could have a Captain Marvel there, that you’ve made a deal for.’ And they talked about it, and I was like, ‘And Spider-Man, we could do that too, because Sony had approached us during the first movie about a little integration. So, I would have put both of them in, but neither of the deals were made.” Whedon said during the podcast.
Whedon reveals that Marvel did open up to his ideas about integrating the characters but it was too little too late.
“And then they’re like, ‘We’re making a Captain Marvel movie and we’ve got Spider-Man as a property,’ and I’m like, ‘I’ve already locked my film you f***ers! Thanks for nothing.’”
