Avengers: Age of Ultron

Avengers: Age of Ultron is the official title for an upcoming film directed by Joss Whedon which is intended to be a sequel to The Avengers. It is scheduled to be released on May 1, 2015. It was confirmed by Joss Whedon that a story arc will focus on Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. It stars Chris Evans as Captain America, Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man, Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Don Cheadle as Iron Patriot, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver, Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch, and James Spader as Ultron.

Synopsis
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Cast

 * Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
 * Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk
 * Lou Ferrigno as the voice of the Hulk
 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
 * Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
 * Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
 * Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/Iron Patriot
 * Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
 * James Spader as Ultron
 * Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver
 * Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch
 * Paul Bettany as Vision
 * Thomas Kretschmann as Wolfgang von Strucker
 * Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
 * Claudia Kim as a to-be-confirmed character
 * Hannah Flynn as Dancer

Locations

 * New York City, New York
 * Avengers Tower
 * South Africa
 * South Korea

Events
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Items

 * Captain America's Shield
 * Mjølnir
 * Hawkeye's Quiver and Bow
 * Black Widow's Bite
 * Iron Man suit(s)

Sentient species

 * Asgardians
 * Humans

Creatures
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Vehicles
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Organizations

 * Avengers
 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * HYDRA

Production

 * Despite the subtitle, the film is not based on the 2013 comic book miniseries Age of Ultron. Feige explained, "We came up with a few titles, but every month a new comic book appeared, and that's a great title. Age Of Ultron is a great title. We had a few other 'Of Ultrons', but that was the best one. So we're borrowing that title, but taking storylines from decades of Avengers storylines."Also Wheddon added:"We're doing our own version of the origin story of Ultron....We were crafting our own version of it where [Ultron's] own origin comes more directly from the Avengers we already know about. The other thing is in the origin story there was Hank Pym, so a lot of people assumed he was going to be in the mix, but 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."


 * On January 24, 2014, the Forte di Bard Association announced that filming would take place at Fort Bard in the Aosta Valley region of Italy in March 2014, as well as other locations in Aosta Valley including Aosta, Donnas, Bard, Pont-Saint-Martin and Verrès. The next month, the Gauteng Film Commission announced that action sequences would be filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa and other locations in Gauteng, beginning in mid-February. A few weeks later Marvel announced that portions of the film would be shot in South Korea. Filming was scheduled to take place in the Gyeonggi Province and its capital, Seoul with South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and #Tourism reimbursing up to 30% of the studio's expenditures, as part of a state-funded incentive program.


 * Filming finally began on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa, having been postponed for a day. Second unit crews shot the action sequences, without the main cast, in the Central Business District of Johannesburg for a period of two weeks.

Trivia

 * This is the first film in the franchise that does not co-star Loki and Erik Selvig alongside Thor.
 * Mark Ruffalo revealed on Twitter that he worked with Andy Serkis on motion capture for the Hulk.