Joss Whedon is talking about the evil artificial intelligence Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will fight in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
“I’m having a blast with Ultron. He’s not a creature of logic — he’s a robot who’s genuinely disturbed. We’re finding out what makes him menacing and at the same time endearing and funny and strange and unexpected, and everything a robot never is,” the director says in an upcoming 300th issue of Empire Magazine.
Ultron (played by James Spader) is just one of the villains the Avengers will take on in the sequel.
Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker (Thomas Kretschmann) of Hydra and initially Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch (Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen) Whedon says all the antagonists are essential to the story.
“I fiercely dislike the idea of just throwing in more people for the sake of doing that. But last time I had all of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes versus one British character actor, and I needed more conflict.”
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In the post credit scene Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are revealed to empowered by exposure to the alien weapon used by Loki in The Avengers. The “twins” are Von Strucker’s prisoners in a secret Hydra lab.
Paul Bettany, the voice of Jarvis (Tony Stark’s A.I. butler) is also playing the Vision. In the comics Vision is an android created by Ultron to infiltrate and destroy the Avengers but turns on his creator and becomes a member of the team. No official word on how the Vision will be portrayed or changed for the film.
Thanks to Dark Horizons.
Avengers: Age of Ultron opens May 2015.
By Editor