'Captain Marvel' Movie News, Rumors: Director Joss Whedon Talks Future of Marvel Cinematic Universe

It has been recently reported that director Joss Whedon won't be directing the third installment of the Marvel mashup, 'Avengers: Infinity Wars', but it has been speculated if he would have his hands in any other pressing projects.

In an interview with Buzzfeed, the director was approached on the opportunity of producing 'Captain Marvel', the first Marvel female driven movie. He responded:

"Um, I would never rule anything out, because I like working here. By the same token, the biggest thing for me is that I need to do something that I create myself. It's been way too long since I created a universe... Captain Marvel I don't know as well. There have been a few [versions] of her. I have the first issue of Ms. Marvel, back when she was that, and had the Farrah hair. My only issue with her is that she always felt sort of on top. She was very driven. A winner. I always like to dig into the soil of things to find my heroes, if I can."

It's apparent Whedon truly cares about his work. He doesn't want to take on such a huge undertaking before absolutely knowing he can do so. There has even been talks of Marvel hiring a female director to helm the project.

Whedon was also questioned on what original projects he was interested in pursuing post-Avengers.

"I will say that when I was thinking about, Well, if I wasn't going to do Avengers 2, what would I want to do? - of course the first thing I thought of was 'turn-of-the-century female Batman'. Not Batman actually. But, you know, something cool. One person. Can't stress that enough. Movie about one person - not a team, not 10, just one. But [I would] do a nice sort of hard action movie that combined all my favorite things. Something that would be the love child of Sam Fuller and Edward Gorey. You know, I've had many thoughts since then. Oh, I could do this! Oh, I could do that! But it is my instinct to want to tell those stories."

This was just a project pitch the director had and nothing official. There is no confirmation on what Whedon will be working on after 'The Avengers' sequel.