Lots of New AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Character Details
Digital Spy published a ton of new details regarding the characters of Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. The info comes from some interviews they conducted on the set of the film last year. There’s a good amount of info that is revealed about the relationships of the characters in the film, and it also points out which Avenger that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver hate the most and why.
I will throw out a SPOILER warning just in case you are looking to stay away from any information that might ruin the movie for you. The interviews were conducted with several member of the cast and crew, and while I don't consider what they talk about to be spoilers, some of you might.
We’ll start off with producer Jeremy Latchmen talking about Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, who team up with Ultron early on to create a balance of power for the team. Ultron has a very different dynamic from Loki. He explains:
"Instead of Ultron giving a lot of speeches so everybody knows what he's thinking, it'd be nice if he had some allies. The story that Joss put together with these two kids is really sweet and poignant, and you really understand why they would start on this side of the line. It's a great journey that they go on, from being these rough and tumble kids in Eastern Europe who blame the West, and the Avengers for the plight, the power structure of the world that keeps kids like them down. Over the course of it they realize maybe the Avengers are here for good reason."
Elizabeth Olsen then goes on to explain that there is one particular Avenger that the Maximoff twins absolutely hate.
"Our characters have a lot of anger, especially towards Tony Stark, and we want revenge. We meet Ultron, and he's someone who preaches peace and… believes what we believe, which is that the Avengers create destruction and that Tony Stark's bomb is responsible for killing our parents."
Of course their allegiance with Ultron eventually breaks, and they finally side with the real good guys. Olsen goes on to talk about her character a bit saying:
"My character ends up really having to deal with her ignorance. A lot of problems that happen towards the end of the film are her responsibility."
Turns out there’s a much bigger threat to the Avengers than Ultron and the Maximoffs that will tear the superhero team apart. Chris Hemsworth says:
"The larger threat individually isolates each of us. It's quite a personal kind of threat, and Thor is potentially seeing the bigger picture here - he has a whole other sort of journey for a while, where he kind of goes 'Hang on, this is part of something else, I think'."
Latchmen continues explaining how the disbandment of S.H.I.E.L.D. plays a huge part in the problems that the Avengers have because their is no clear leader:
"S.H.I.E.L.D. has fallen apart, so this movie becomes Tony Stark and Steve Rogers trying to put the Avengers together without a parental unit like Nick Fury hovering over them. What you realize is that these are guys who work best with rules, and probably do need some adult supervision. Tony has been paying for everything, designing stuff, building new toys, he's the benefactor of the whole thing. But Steve Rogers is very much in charge of operations and missions, he's the moral compass, but how long can Tony Stark have someone else be in charge?"
The Hulk is going to play a much bigger role this time around, and it sounds like life has gotten a little better for Bruce Banner since he joined up with the team. Mark Ruffalo discussed the character, his role in the story, and how he is still evolving:
"I think he does feel more comfortable with himself and his relationship to Hulk, but that confidence definitely gets shaken during the movie. He's sort of left behind in waiting as the secret weapon, the nuclear bomb. I feel like we haven't even scratched the surface with Hulk, as far as his character goes. The technology just hasn't completely been available, and I think we've sort of been ignorant about the approach, like, what can we do with the Hulk? Yeah, he's great and it's exciting when he freaks out and smashes, but there's a whole character there from the comics, who can talk and has a personality. Is it always just rage? I think there's a battle of identity going on between him and Banner, about establishing dominance, and what troubles Hulk in a very primal way is Banner, because he's the only thing that has any control over him. That sets up an interesting dynamic that hasn't been explored yet."
The Hulk is one of those characters in The Avengers that I’m most excited to revisit. I wish Marvel would implement him more into the other other films, but he’s one of those characters that seems like will only be used in The Avengers films.
Whedon then spoke in detail about the different kinds of movie genres and styles that we’ll see in the movie, saying:
"With the first one, I set out to make a war movie. This time I said to Marvel, 'I really want to make more of a science-fiction horror', but then in the first week I was like 'This is clearly a western'. Then it became a war movie again, then oh no, it's a romantic comedy, a 1940s romantic comedy… No, it's Ibsen! No, okay, it's definitely an adventure. It's an action comedy! I suppose if it's gonna get put in a category, it has got some science fiction in it, but for me, it's just everything. And hopefully that doesn't come out as ADD, but as what happens when you put these different people together, you get that kind of weird dissonance with their different worlds and styles, and you hopefully make music out of it, instead of a horrible cacophony."
Whedon then comments on Avengers: Infinity War and how he’s not going to direct it, saying:
"I cannot imagine directing a film with – if you'll pardon the expression – more f**king people in it. I'd love to see one, though,"
Damn, that comment really says something about what Marvel is planning for those two movies, and how big they are going to be if Whedon is scared to take it on. There’s a lot more to read over on Digital Spy so make sure you head on over there to read up on some more info for the highly anticipated sequel.
The Avengers will return on May 1st, 2015.