Avengers director Joss Whedon has said it once and he will say it again, he's done with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Whedon's most recent excursion into the MCU was with Avengers: Age of Ultron, a film that he says "broke him."
Directing the Avengers films was "very, very, very hard" for Whedon, and Age of Ultron left him at a creative loss. Considering this, it isn't surprising that Whedon is looking to distance himself from the MCU.
"I sort of had my finger in all of the films in the second phase, but then I just had to concentrate only on Ultron, and sort of knew when it was done I was just going to stop," he said, via Uproxx. "So I made a completely clean break, not because we had a falling out, just because I was like, 'I can't.'
"If I was still there going, 'Well, here are my thoughts on this film,' I'd be there every day. I wouldn't do anything else because there are a lot of films, and it is a lot of fun. It's very seductive. When you can put your little fairy dust on things and just improve them slightly, and they actually listen to you."
Whedon found himself fighting with Marvel executives quite a bit over specific scenes that he wanted to include in Ultron (like the dreams, and farmhouse scenes), that Marvel didn't want in the film. With Whedon breaking away from the series it will give him a chance to create films on his terms (more or less).
