Joss Whedon Discusses the "Unhinged" Climax of AVENGERS 2 and More
Director Joss Whedon has offered some awesome details regarding the final act of Avengers: Age of Ultron. I wouldn't worry about there being any spoilers here. Whedon would never say anything about the film in an interview that would spoil anything for the fans.
Remember that Comic-Con art featuring the Avengers in an epic battle with Ultron and his drones? Well that's one of the things he discusses, and he says the climax of the film is "completely unhinged." Here's what he had to say in an interview with UK Yahoo!:
"Avengers: Age of Ultron got larger than the first film. I didn’t mean for it to get larger, but the climax that I pitched was completely unhinged and nobody said no, so that’s that. The biggest thing for me [in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’] is to go deeper with the characters.
“Now that people accept the reality where Thor, Iron Man and all these guys hang out, I can now bend that reality. I’ve got Quicksilver and I’ve got Scarlet Witch and they have very different ways of looking at the world, looking at The Avengers and different powers. So that visually and emotionally, we can go to a place that we didn’t have access to the first time.”
When asked what he thought about the genre the comic book movie fit in, he said:
"To me, adventure film is the best way to put it. Then science fiction, action, western, war, woman’s picture, horror movie … I’m not kidding; every single one of those things is in there."
He then goes on to talk a little bit about the huge battle at the end of the movie that will involve hundreds of Ultron drones:
“I knew before I made the first film that Ultron needed be in the second one, along with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver as well. The way I approach a story is that I find these moments by thinking, ‘You know what I need to see?’ And generally if they work, you go from there.
“You know they’re going to fight Ultron. You know Ultron has a tendency to build hundreds of Ultrons. So that’s going to lead you in a certain direction, but the hard work of the thing is making sure everyone feels serviced and integrated. So, in the beginning it’s fun. You’re thinking, ‘What would be fun, what would be cool?’”
When it comes to the repercussions of the ending on the rest of the MCU, he explains:
“The whole movie [‘Age of Ultron’] is a process of changing everything and keeping everything the same. You want to hit all the things that made people love the first movie, but you also want to make something new or why are you here.
“I don’t want to make The Avengers again - I did that one time. With the ending it was important for me that we felt a progression. We didn’t just feel, ‘well, no problem, we cleaned that up!’ because that’s an episode of television. That’s not a film. This film, there’s more at stake and we take that seriously.”
We've seen a lot of amazing footage from the film, but I don't think anything will be able to prepare us for what Marvel and Whedon have done for the climax of this movie. I can't wait to see the action explode on the big screen!