Avengers 2

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Joss Whedon Talks Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch and Iron Man's Roles in Avengers 2

Joss Whedon is certainly keeping busy with Marvel. Having written and directed the mega-blockbuster, The Avengers, he is now launching Marvel’s first live-action TV show, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., while also preparing Marvel's The Avengers 2.


I spoke to Whedon this week at ABC’s Upfront, where S.H.I.E.L.D. was being announced and asked him a couple of questions about Avengers 2 and some of the characters in it.

Whedon had previously alluded to a brother/sister duo being in the film, which EW later said was indeed Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. When I brought up Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch to Whedon, he confirmed they were the characters in question, explaining, “You know, they had a rough beginning. They’re interesting to me because they sort of represent the part of the world that wouldn’t necessarily agree with The Avengers. So they’re not there to make things easier. I’m not putting any characters in the movie that will make things easier.”

We also know Tony Stark/Iron Man plays another large role in the sequel, but the end of Iron Man 3 saw Tony destroying all the Iron Man suits we knew about, while seemingly stepping back from his time in the armor.

When I asked Whedon if that made it a challenge putting Iron Man in Avengers 2, he remarked, “Well, I feel like in Iron Man 3, even though he said, ‘I’ve changed' -- he blew up his remote suits, but I don’t think anybody thinks he doesn’t have one anymore. The question is, if The Avengers are called, does he show up? And the answer is, ‘Yes!’”

[Gravedigger]

Originally Posted by Silock

Shouldn't Ant Man come before Avengers 2, if they're going with Ultron?

They pretty much said that Hank will not create Ultron with the way they're going about it. They're going to take liberties with the story.

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Originally Posted by Gravedigger

They pretty much said that Hank will not create Ultron with the way they're going about it. They're going to take liberties with the story.

Just hope they don't "Mandarin" him.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by unlurking

Just hope they don't "Mandarin" him.

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH

[Silock]

Originally Posted by Gravedigger

They pretty much said that Hank will not create Ultron with the way they're going about it. They're going to take liberties with the story.

Fuuuuuuuuuu

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Originally Posted by Aries Walker

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH

Rather than JARVIS, we could always see Dummy as the origin story for Ultron. He's probably pissed at Tony for being treated so badly.

[Gravedigger]

Originally Posted by unlurking

Just hope they don't "Mandarin" him.

It's like Marvel took such a huge step back with that one. They were on such a high, and then they turn it into the Punisher: War Zone.

[Psyko Tek]

Originally Posted by unlurking

Just hope they don't "Mandarin" him.

that ruined Iron man 3 for me
I was just **** it this sucks

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James Spader to play Ultron in Avengers 2

James Spader has signed on to play the villain in writer-director Joss Whedon’s upcoming superhero sequel, Marvel announced today.
The film is set to open May 1, 2015.
Marvel’s announcement didn’t specify whether the three-time Emmy winner Spader (Boston Legal, The Practice) will perform motion-capture to play the mechanical being (as Mark Ruffalo does for his scenes as The Hulk), or simply provide the character’s voice.

Smart money says Spader’s commitment won’t be too intense. He’s starring in the NBC series The Blacklist this Fall, as an ex-government fugitive now helping the FBI track down the world’s most wanted criminals. That probably won’t give him a lot of time to go galavanting in a robot suit.
Whedon recently told EW’s James Hibberd about his plans for the character, an artificial intelligence with a heavy-duty god-complex, overwhelmed with rage toward his creators and longing to overtake the planet with his own spawn.

Think of him as a droid with one hell of a set of daddy issues. “As a character I love [Ultron],” Whedon says, “because he’s so pissed off.”
“I knew right away what I wanted to do with him,” Whedon added. “He’s always trying to destroy the Avengers, goddamn it, he’s got a bee in his bonnet. He’s not a happy guy, which means he’s an interesting guy. He’s got pain. And the way that manifests is not going to be standard robot stuff. So we’ll take away some of those powers because at some point everybody becomes magic, and I already have someone [a new character, Scarlet Witch] who’s a witch.”

In Marvel comics lore, Ultron is the creation of scientist Hank Pym, a.k.a. Ant-Man, a hero who has a suit that allows him to shrink to tiny proportions and a transmitter that can manipulate insects to do his bidding. Pym is a genius R&D guy, and Ultron is one of his greatest creations. But since the machine is designed to be self-aware and self-teaching, it quickly develops a narcissistic quirk in its programing that sends it off the rails into murder and mayhem.
Ultron begins rebuilding himself into more and more powerful iterations and seeks to create artificial life on his own in a twisted desire to become a parent — especially important since he feels betrayed by his own builder, Pym, when he doesn’t support his programming’s new murderous bent.
But Ant-Man, a film being co-written and directed by The World’s End filmmaker Edgar Wright, won’t be out until after the Avengers sequel. So there is a question about whether Ultron’s origin story will be changed, or if Pym will show up a little early. (Whedon has told Annalee Newitz of io9.com that he won’t.)

In footage shown at Comic-Con in July to announce the title and reveal Ultron as the new villain, it begins with a close-up of what appears to be Iron Man’s mask. We hear various lines from the assorted Avengers that were spoken in previous Marvel movies. As they bicker, the Iron Man helmet revolves and is pulverized by an unseen force.
At the end, we see the title reveal — and Iron Man’s mask has become Ultron’s grinning, fang-like metallic skull.
That has led to a lot of speculation that Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark, no slouch in the Research & Development field for new technology, may be rewritten as the creator of Ultron, whose mission is to eradicate organic life from Earth and replace it with his own mechanical offspring.
Right now, we can only guess. But one thing is for certain — this pairing of ’80s Brat Packers Downey Jr. and Spader is the most unlikely Less Than Zero reunion anyone could have imagined.

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[Fish]

Summer 2015? Boooooo.

[MrNightly]

Yes Please....

[bowener]

That was pretty tight.

[Hammock Parties]

Star Wars and Avengers 2 in the same Summer.

Battle of epicness.

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Samuel L. Jackson on His ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Cameo as Nick Fury

Coming off a debut that saw 11.9 million viewers — the highest-rated network drama in four years — ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” attempted to excite fans Tuesday night with a cameo by “The Avengers” Nick Fury.

“I’m still playing the same guy, it’s the same process,” Samuel L Jackson, who plays Fury, told the Journal Tuesday morning. “I just show up and they turn the cameras on and we do it.”

“S.H.I.E.L.D.” delivered 8.4 million viewers, impressive for 8 p.m., but down 34 percent from last week’s record-setting arrival.

In the scene, Fury chastised his underling Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) for severely damaging the agency’s aircraft, including but not limited to blowing a life raft sized hole into its hull.

After only six days, that seemed quite an accomplishment. “You know I have the authority to downgrade your a– to a Winnebago,” Fury shouted in the scene.

ABC hinted at the possibility of a Fury cameo, posting a promo on their Facebook page Saturday suggesting viewers tune in through the closing credits of “S.H.I.E.L.D.,” a strategy used by Marvel Entertainment for their feature films, where post-credit scenes are common.

“I don’t think we begin shooting before March of next year,” Jackson said of “The Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the next film to begin shooting in the Marvel universe. ”I know we’re shooting in London, that James Spader is Ultron and going to be the bad guy, and that we added Ms. [Elizabeth] Olsen [who will play the Scarlet Witch], but I don’t know what she’s doing, if she’s on the inside or the outside. I haven’t seen a script.”

“S.H.I.E.L.D.” signals Marvel Entertainment’s first live-action series since it was acquired by Walt Disney Co., and co-creator and executive producer Joss Whedon had previously told the Journal that he’s looking to incorporate the Marvel and “Avengers” big screen universe into the small screen show. The caveat for Whedon, however, is to ensure that any cameos avoid overshadowing the series’ core cast.

“We may see some people and more people from the Marvel Universe that are not cinematic. The most important people are these people [the cast],” Whedon said during the San Diego Comic-Con “S.H.I.E.L.D.” panel in July.

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Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare

In the scene, Fury chastised his underling Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) for severely damaging the agency’s aircraft, including but not limited to blowing a life raft sized hole into its hull.

Yeah, that was just ****'n stupid...