From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   http://www.iamrogue.com/news/movie-news/item/12990-joss-whedon-t   
   lks-avengers-age-of-ultron.html   
      
   JOSS WHEDON TALKS ULTRON, SCARLET WITCH, AND AMBITION IN 'AVENGERS: AGE OF   
   ULTRON'   
      
   If The Avengers was all about assembling Earth's Mightiest Heroes, then this   
   summer's Avengers: Age of Ultron is all about tearing them apart.   
      
   Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer know that Joss Whedon can put his   
   characters through the wringer, dramatically speaking.  The writer-director   
   behind the biggest comic book movie of all time has shed some light on the   
   misfortune heading the Avengers' way in Age of Ultron.  Specifically, he's   
   talking about the villain doing the wringing, the robotic bad guy Ultron, as   
   well as new MCU players Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.   
      
   Back in the midst of production, the loquacious filmmaker talked to Empire   
   about Round 2, revealing that he intended to use Ultron as a villain even   
   before he signed up for The Avengers.  Played by James Spader, the robotic   
   nightmare is actually the creation of Tony Stark, who intends for Ultron to   
   oversee the Iron Legion, a worldwide drone force designed to help the   
   Avengers keep the worldwide peace.  Unfortunately, Ultron has other ideas,   
   like killing the Avengers and wiping out humanity.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   Whedon also acknowledged that the cinematic Ultron's powers aren't quite as   
   expansive as his comic book counterpart's, saying, "The powers in comic   
   books – they’re always like, ‘And then I can reverse  the polarity of   
   your   
   ions!’ – well, we have to ground things a lot more. With Ultron, we have to   
   make him slightly less omnipotent because he’d win. Bottom line. Also,   
   having weaknesses and needs and foibles and alliances and actually caring   
   what people think of him, all these things, are what make him a character   
   and not just a tidal wave. A movie about a tidal wave can be great, but it’s   
   different than a conflict between one side and the other."   
      
   [snip]   
      
   Ultron's not the only new threat in Avengers: Age of Ultron.  Our heroes   
   also have to contend with superpowered siblings Scarlet Witch and   
   Quicksilver, played by Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.  Both   
   appeared for the first time in a mid-credits sequence of Captain America:   
   The Winter Soldier, and they're rumored to be Inhumans, paving the way for   
   2019's Inhumans movie.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark   
   Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, and Cobie Smulders are all back   
   from the first film.   
      
   "There’s a large amount of trust with the troupe, and they were great the   
   first time but they were taking it on faith," Whedon said. "They were like,   
   ‘Okay, he seems to know where he’s going, so we’re going there.’ And   
   Thor   
   hadn’t come out, Cap hadn’t come out, and there was a certain amount of   
   tension in the group within themselves, but this time I feel like there’s an   
   ease and I’m trying very hard not to let that ease translate into ‘Don’t   
   worry, we got this, we’re definitely gonna win.’   
      
   [more of the interview at the link, and a couple of pics]   
      
      
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