WHEDON: ‘AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON’ offering NEW TAKE ON ULTRON. Cry FAN PEOPLE, Cry!
So, wait. Maybe I don’t have to delve into the recent Age of Ultron mega-event-thing that ravaged the Marvel titles on the shelves (unless you folks assure me that it provokes prostate pleasure. Jossy Whedon has gone on record stating that his Avengers sequel of the same exact name won’t be the same exact story.
Oh.
Aiight.
Yesterday Joss Whedon introduced a short video at San Diego Comic Con that announced the full title for the Avengers sequel. Avengers: Age of Ultron will be released in 2015, and the name tells us that the malicious adamantium robot Ultron — a longtime Marvel Universe nemesis with many different incarnations — will play a major role.
A comic book storyline published earlier this year bears the same name, naturally leading many fans to expect that the movie will be an adaptation of that storyline. (A story which features prominent roles for characters Marvel Studios cannot use.) Turns out that the movie is really using the title and presence of Ultron, and possibly little more from that comic book story. Joss Whedon explains bel0w.
Movieweb spoke to Whedon, who explained that the fact that the film is using the title “Age of Ultron” shouldn’t be taken as proof that the movie will adapt the comic storyline of the same name, published earlier this year.
Well, because there was a book called ‘Age of Ultron’ quite recently, a lot of people have assumed that is what we’re doing, but that is not the case. We’re doing our own version of the origin story for Ultron. In the origin story, there was Hank Pym, so a lot of people assumed that he will be in the mix. He’s not. We’re basically taking the things from the comics for the movies that we need and can use. A lot of stuff has to fall by the wayside.
The likely assumption to make — which many people have already guessed — is that Tony Stark will end up creating Ultron, rather than Pym. Whedon didn’t confirm that supposition, but he does suggest it:
We’re crafting our own version of it where his origin comes more directly from The Avengers we already know about. It’s a little bit darker than the other film because Ultron is in the house. There’s a science fiction theme that wasn’t there in the other one. Ultron is definitely something that evolves, so we’re going to get together a couple of different iterations. Nothing can be translated exactly as it was from the comics; particularly Ultron.
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How does everyone feel about this? ‘Cause I’m completely fucking fine with it. I fuck with Whedon. I fuck with everything he is about. So if he wants to dabble, tinker, and tweak Ultron’s origins for the MCU, I’m going to just to nod and prepare to feel my balls tingle in May of 2015.