NO, THEY WILL NOT BE FIGHTING BAD HORSE: Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that Joss Whedon
will direct (but not write) The Avengers. An interesting choice to be sure--Whedon knows how to balance an ensemble cast in a film, and
Serenity sure looked like it cost more than the $39M it apparently did. That said, even his most successful ventures haven't been broadly popular, and while he's worked with emerging stars before, he's never worked with the level of star power he'll be working with here--Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey, Jr. are both expected to return.