“12 Things We Learned from Joss Whedon’s SXSW Talk”

Joss Whedon was just in Austin for the SXSW Festival. Here is a list of 12 things he discussed in an interview after the debut screening of The Cabin in the Woods:

1. He co-wrote his new film, Cabin in the Woods, (with director Drew Goddard) in three days.

2. He’s sorry, but he’s going to write things — like this film — that are easily “spoiled,” so keep it in your pants.

3. The Evil Dead influence on Cabin in the Woods is not accidental.

4. He’s well aware that The Avengers is the “ultimate superhero movie,” and that’s why he’s excited about it.

5. There are drawbacks to having buckets of money at your disposal.

6. He’s not going to tell you who the Avengers villains are.

7. Some people take vacations. Joss made another movie.

8. Why he keeps revisiting his old characters via comic books.

9. He prefers TV to film.

10. Don’t hold your breath for more Firefly.

11. He pitched a Batman movie on one of the worst days of his life.

And let’s get the whole bit for this last one:

12. How he writes: “I dislike revision, and I’ll tell you why: that’s more work. I didn’t write a lot of first drafts, even in school. And that was — for you young people nowadays — before we had the computer. So when you’re writing what is your final draft, and you’re typing it on your crappy little manual typewriter, you have to try to get it right. So I think out of my further laziness, I developed a system where I don’t write anything down until I’m sure about it. And in terms of writing fiction, that’s even more fun, because what I get to do is walk around the room and act it all out.” Of that process, he admits, “Sometimes I say things. Maybe sometimes I cry. Maybe once or twice Kai [his wife] has heard a huge thump from upstairs and gone, ‘Ah, he’s working on a fight scene.’ There is a tiny theater of me in my study, and it’s excellent, and it gets great reviews.”

By the way, the official position at Go Into The Story is that Joss Whedon rocks!

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