Avengers: Age of Ultron, the sequel to 2012's "Marvel's The Avengers," will push earth's mightiest superheroes to the brink of their limits. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, director and writer Joss Whedon said, "With the first 'Avengers,' everybody pretty much had the power to punch somebody. And now we have a woman who can get inside your head and move objects, and a boy who can move faster than anything, and a robot who can replicate and is out of his mind. So all of a sudden, it's a darker, weirder, tougher world that they're living in."
The woman who can get inside people's head and move objects with her will is Scarlet Witch (played by Elizabeth Olsen) while the boy who can move faster than anything is her fraternal twin Quicksilver (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson). The crazy robot who can replicate is the Ultron (played by James Spader) in the movie's title and who ironically was created by Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.) himself to help out in restoring peace and order following the destruction of S.H.I.E.L.D. as a result of the mayhem witnessed in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier."
To complete his team of baddies, Ultron created the Vision, a solar-powered synthetic humanoid who can fly, discharge energy beams and alter his body's density. Interestingly, the Vision will be played by Paul Bethany who was the voice actor behind JARVIS, Tony Starks' own AI assistant in "Iron Man 3." So what is Ultron's agenda? In a sequence of the film, according to Screen Rant, Ultron during his own launching party, told the members of the Avengers, "I know you're good people. I know you mean well...but you just didn't think it through...There is only one path to peace...your extermination."
Aside from Downey, we can expect Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Cris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson to return and reprise their original roles. "Avengers: Age of Ultron" will be available in theaters by May 1, 2015.
