Louis Leterrier was interviewed by Geoff Boucher over at the LA Times.

Leterrier directed The Incredible Hulk (the one starring Edward Norton; Ang Lee directed Hulk starring Eric Bana). He’s on contract to direct a second picture for Marvel. He’d prefer to tackle The Avengers over a Hulk sequel, but the way he wants to do it is awesome.

From the article:

GB: There are so many Marvel films I’d like to see and they’d be a bit deeper into the mythology. I’d like to see a Silver Surfer and Mephisto film, or Guardians of the Galaxy or perhaps Iron Fist, if done right..

LL: There are so many. A different Fantastic Four would be great, too. You know, you asked about my dream, I’ll tell you my real dream: To work with Joe Johnston and [“Thor” director] Kenneth Branagh and Jon Favreau and make like a triptych. We do four movies. We release them one a month for the summer. Or even every two weeks or three weeks. And the whole summer would be Avengers summer. So we do it the way they make television shows. One story arc but told in installments by different directors. So all of the directors that touch part of the Avengers world would do a part; we could make the movies shorter, maybe less than an hour and a half, and we use the same sets and save Marvel money. I would love to sit around a table with all of them a kick around the story. That’s my dream.

GB: That’d  be very interesting if you told a massive story, like the Kree-Skrull War … it also would tap into the comics tradition of cliffhangers and episodic storytelling. But it would also be a pretty massive budget for Marvel, a studio that is still fairly new and locked into a release schedule that will help it keep its shareholders happy.

LL: I think the main thing is coming up with different ways of doing things. People will get bored seeing the same superhero movie every summer. If we change the concept and package it differently, then we do something really original then people get excited. I also like the cooperation, I love working with someone. When we were doing “The Incredible Hulk” and “Iron Man” was going on, there was something really cool about that. It was like being part of a team.

Man. Man.

Q: How much do we all wish this came true?

A: Thiiiiiis much.

So…there’s that.

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