With only five months until Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron opens, writer/director Joss Whedon is putting the finishing touches on his latest superhero epic. He spoke about the film in a new interview this week, but of course didn’t reveal any major spoilers.
Whedon spoke with Fandango, and told them that everything is bigger this time, compared to the already big first Avengers movie.
“The scope is bigger. We have more to work with,” Whedon said. “We have a bigger world to work with and a bigger world for [the Avengers] just to be in. Once they exist as a team, we have to deal with what everybody thinks about that, and what that means to the world. So it's not as simple as it was.”
Whedon has to deal with several new characters, including the villain, Ultron, voiced by James Spader. Paul Bettany is playing The Vision, while Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen are Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, respectively.
As was made clear by October’s teaser, the members of the team are dealing with their new status in the world, following their solo adventures and the events in The Avengers. Whedon said that everyone has been damaged by their power.
"’Strong but damaged by power' describes every person in this movie," Whedon told Fandango. "It may, in fact, describe what the movie is about. You know, the more power that we have, the less human we are."
He also called Age of Ultron a Frankenstein-esque story, since it is about a creation overpowering its creator. “In the Marvel universe, there's a lot of Frankensteins. Steve Rogers himself, one of the better-looking Frankensteins of our era,” he said. “There’s a lot of people, whether they're trying to do good or bad, who think they have the next big idea. And the next big idea is usually a very bad one.”
Age of Ultron hits theaters on May 1, 2015.
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