Joss Whedon Says AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Is an Original Story
Over the weekend at Comic-Con, Marvel and Joss Whedon announced the title of The Avengers sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron. A lot of us assumed it would be based on the 10-issue limited series comic crossover, but it doesn't sound like that will be the case. The director revealed in a interview with Marvel on their liveblog that the movie will be an original story, and that the comic character Hank Pym won't even be involved with the film. Here's what he had to say about that,
"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."
So if Pym doesn't create Ultron, I think it's safe to assume that Tony Stark will be the creator. He goes on to talk about the tone of the sequel saying,
"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."
Then he spoke about the global scale of the film, and the character he enjoyed writing for most, surprisingly saying that it was Hawkeye.
"It's very much a global Avengers film. A lot of the movie has to do with their place not just in America, but the world. Part of the fun for me, definitely this time around, is writing Hawkeye. He did get possessed pretty early by a bad guy and had to walk around all scowly for most of the movie so now it's nice to actually have the character there and see him interact with the other guys."
That's cool. Hawkeye isn't really my favorite character, but it sounds like this sequel will show us a different side of him. Marvel Comics fans shouldn't be surprised that the studio is going to change things up. Their cinematic universe is its own beast, and I'm ok with that. I love what Marvel's been doing, and I can't wait to see Whedon's vision of the sequel come to life!
What do you all think about what he had to say?
Thanks to CBM