Whedon mentioned something interesting about The Avengers in regard to the lineup and stated that Widow would be the only girl Avenger, but she’s not the only female character in the film.
“It is true that the movie is only going to have one female Avenger, but she will not be the only female character,” he told them, which makes us think some of the women from the other Marvel movies–maybe Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts from the “Iron Man” movies?–would be making appearances in the movie.
Whedon is working hard on rewriting the script but he remained mum on what the plot would be, though he did say that it would incorporate a number of different Avengers stories, both from the original comics and the “Ultimates” version of the characters:
“It will be a new story that has many things from different arcs of the comics in it. There is no one Avengers story that you can just do the way that you can do the origin of Spider-Man. You really have to cull from the original and The Ultimates, which is one of The Avengers titles.”
Guess that means no Wasp or Scarlet Witch? But he did say she was the only female Avenger. So it is possible we will be introduced to those characters, or other notable female characters in the film.
I have full trust and faith in Joss Whedon taking control of The Avengers. He is a gifted writer, and everything he has found success in has been ensemble casts. He doesn’t write one person’s story, and The Avengers are not one person driven.
Come to think of it, now I want Whedon writing X-Men films so I can see what the X-Men would feel like in a story that isn’t revolving around Wolverine.
