Joss Whedon: Avengers is The Priority, Dr. Horrible 2 May Be Coming Soon

It looks like a sequel to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog could be the next Much Ado About Nothing. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Joss Whedon, who recently turned in the outline for Avengers 2, told the magazine that while that's his first priority, followed by Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D., the turnaround time on those massive productions might provide him with the time needed to finally get his Dr. Horrible sequel underway. "These giant things take three years to make. If you don't have anything else coming out, people who are used to having you once a week feel like they've lost you to a certain extent," Whedon told EW. On the matter of S.H.I.E.L.D., he told the magazine, "I have to maintain a fine balance between not hurting The Avengers, which is my number one priority right now, and not be the guy who shows up once a month and undoes everything that's been done by everyone else. Back when I was doing Buffy, I made a joke once. I said, 'We're going to do leprechauns! It's going to be the best episode ever!' And Marti Noxon, who just started as a staff writer, came back three days later and said, 'I spent three days doing research on leprechauns.' And I was like: What the f— are you talking about?'" "I have a certain bandwidth issue I am trying to overcome," Whedon said of getting more Dr. Horrible done, but "We really want to shoot it next year. We feel strong about the idea and we have a bunch of stuff written."