Joss Whedon Wanted Zooey Deschanel To Play The Wasp In The First Avengers Movie

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Back in 2012, we all remember when The Avengers, the first huge crossover movie in Marvel Cinematic Universe was about to come out. Back then, crossover on that scale was something never seen before on the big screen so it’s obvious that movie was followed by a huge hype that resulted in over $1.5 billion at the global box office.

After introducing all the main heroes through solo movies like Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Thor (which also briefly introduced Hawkeye, and Loki, the villain of The Avengers), and we’ll mention Iron Man 2 as well because it introduced Black Widow, it was time to put all of them together into one big movie. Zak Penn wrote the first draft of the script before Joss Whedon was hired to rewrite it and direct the movie.

Now, nine years since the movie’s release, thanks to producer Jeremy Latcham, we found out that Whedon wanted to introduce The Wasp in the MCU a lot earlier than Evangeline Lilly made her debut as the character Hope Van Dyne in the 2015 movie Ant-Man, and later suited up as the Wasp in the sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp three years later.

“It was all about The Wasp. He wanted to cast Zooey Deschanel. [Wasp] was the funniest character in the whole movie, and well-written.”

Jeremy Latcham, “The Story of Marvel Studios”
Source: SlashFilm

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.