Avengers: Age of Ultron

Avengers: Age of Ultron is an upcoming film directed by Joss Whedon and is a sequel to The Avengers, the eleventh main installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the fifth in Phase Two. Avengers: Age of Ultron is scheduled for release on May 1, 2015 in North America, in 3D and . 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
Marvel Studios presents Avengers: Age of Ultron, the epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, along with support from Nick Fury and Maria Hill are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to the Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.

Plot
In 1978, Pym Technologies develops a complex computer program for the United States Department of Defense. The program is designed to seek out any potential world-threatening crisis so that a possible threat could be extinguished before it begins. However, due to the program's very large RAM size, it gradually absorbed large quantities of data from the hardware from which it encompassed, triggering a viral outbreak across the world. To prevent any further corruption, a group of hackers confine the program into a simple home computer. The computer is eventually renovated to a storage complex in New York City, where the program goes dormant for many years.

Years later,

Cast

 * Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor
 * Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk
 * Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
 * Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
 * Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine
 * Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon
 * Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver
 * Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
 * Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
 * James Spader as Ultron
 * Paul Bettany as Vision and J.A.R.V.I.S.
 * Thomas Kretschmann as Wolfgang von Strucker
 * Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
 * Josh Brolin as Thanos
 * Stellan Skarsgård as Erik Selvig
 * Tom Hiddleston as Loki
 * Idris Elba as Heimdall
 * Kim Soo Hyun as Doctor Cho
 * Andy Serkis as a to-be-confirmed character
 * Stan Lee as a to-be-confirmed character

Locations

 * New York City, New York
 * Avengers Tower
 * London
 * Rivoli Ballroom
 * Sokovia
 * Wakanda
 * Clint Barton's Farm

Events
To be added

Items

 * Infinity Stones
 * Captain America's Shield
 * Vibranium
 * Captain America's Uniform
 * Mjølnir
 * Hawkeye's Quiver and Bow
 * Black Widow's Bite
 * Iron Man Armor: Mark XLIII
 * Iron Man Armor: Mark XLIV
 * War Machine Armor: Mark III
 * Arc Reactor
 * Ultron Sentinels
 * Chitauri Scepter

Sentient Species

 * Asgardians
 * Frost Giants
 * Humans

Creatures

 * Leviathan

Vehicles

 * Captain America's Motorcycle
 * Quinjet

Organizations

 * Avengers
 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * HYDRA
 * Strategic Scientific Reserve

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."
 * In December 2012, Whedon stated that he had completed an outline for the film.
 * In February, at the 2013  Whedon said that death would play a theme in the sequel.
 * In March 2013, Whedon said that he looked to ' and ' as inspirations.
 * 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.
 * In March 2014, Brian Tyler signed on to compose the film's score, marking his third film collaboration with Marvel following Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World in 2013. His score includes callbacks to previous Marvel films and pays homage to John Williams' scores for Star Wars, Superman and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
 * Samuel L. Jackson stated that Nick Fury will have a smaller role than he had in the first film.
 * Mark Ruffalo stated that Hulk would have more screen time in this film.