Joss Whedon has been talking about his post-Marvel movie career, telling IGN that he’s definitely interested in directing a Star Wars film, but stating that he wouldn’t want to see the franchise crossover with the MCU.

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Disney owns both properties these days, so while Whedon was doing the publicity rounds for Avengers: Age of Ultron , we asked him if he’d be interested in potentially relocating to a galaxy far, far away.“Right now I’d be interested in a long nap! But are you kidding? It’s Star Wars! It’s always going to be Star Wars!”Whedon is less interested in seeing the franchise merge with the Marvel Cinematic Universe however. “I rule out nothing” he explained. “But I think it would not be my choice. You have two enormously strong, very textured universes. To say we have just the one would be to in some way dilute them. I think it makes sense to keep them in their own time, which I believe was long ago and not so close by.”The writer-director added that while it’s great to mine all these properties from the past for material, studios should also be striving to come up with original ideas.“It’s pretty exciting – I have to say. I saw the new trailer for Star Wars as everyone else had. ‘It’s good to be home.’ But at the same time we’re all painfully aware that at some point we’ll be running on fumes. I love working with the characters I grew up reading about but we need to create the characters that other people are going to grow up reading about.”So would you like to see Whedon direct a Star Wars film? And do you think he’s right about that dearth of original ideas? Let us know in the comments, and check out our video review of Avengers: Age of Ultron below…

Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN in the UK and wishes he'd had more time to talk Star Wars with Whedon. He can be found talking nonsense on both Twitter and MyIGN