This will all be par for the course to the hardcore geek crowd, but Joss Whedon can apparently do no wrong. At least ABC seems to think so, as the television network has apparently liked the Whedon scripted/directed pilot episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – a spinoff TV series from the box office Hulk smashing The Avengers – enough that they’ve given …

American TV network ABC is apparently in the geek business. They’re currently in production with the Joss Whedon directd/scripted pilot episode of Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D.– a spin-off from the Avengers franchise – but apparently having a grip on just comic geeks is not good enough. Word has now come out that they’re also considering the long in development (seriously, Yoda was still in diapers …

That’s right, I called it! (OK, so too did about 90% of the movie news publications on the planet, but just give me my moment here, OK?) It’s now official: the TV show that our Supreme Geek Overlord is working on for ABC will be S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC has ordered up a pilot for a proposed series based on the Marvel …

Yeah, yeah. Not exactly ground breaking news, is it? Ever since The Avengers handed Marvel/Disney a licence to start printing money, many people just assumed that Whedon would be returning, despite his non-committal mutterings. So the news that he’l be shepherding the next big movie comes as no surprise. What is surprising though, is that before then, Whedon will be …