The Avengers
Joss Whedon Director
Marvel 2012
The Avengers — Joss Whedon, Marvel Studios, 2012 The central challenge of The Avengers for production designer James Chinlund was integration — bringing together the disparate worlds and visual vocabularies of multiple individual films into a single coherent whole. Each character arrived with their own established aesthetic, and the task was to create an environment where they could coexist, feel true to themselves, and remain grounded and real. Chinlund's first film at studio scale, it marked a significant expansion of his practice from the New York independent film world into large-scale franchise filmmaking.