The Avengers 2 gets a title: "Age of Ultron".
Joss revealed it at the end of Marvel Studios panel at the San Diego Comic Con in Hall H.
There will likely be full articles on it later, but this is one of the live blogs that covered the panel.
July 20 2013
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eddy | July 20, 18:30 CET
Simon | July 20, 18:32 CET
Buffyfantic | July 20, 18:36 CET
eddy | July 20, 18:37 CET
Interesting enough, Marvel had a storyline called Age of Ultron earlier this year. Here's the wikipedia link if anyone who isn't up to date on current Marvel wants to take a peak. I wonder if Bendis or anyone else at Marvel who worked on this series had gotten a peak of Joss' script or if Marvel just liked the idea of using the title for both.
That said, if you look at the history of the character what looks like his 3rd appearance in the 1970's involved Ultron attacking the Avengers in the middle of Quicksilver's wedding to a Inhuman character, Crystal. Since this seems to be around the time that Joss was reading Avengers and Joss is adding Quicksilver, I wonder if that storyline will have influenced him at all.
Matt_Fabb | July 20, 18:46 CET
Video: Tom Hiddleston Appears as Loki At Marvel Comic-Con Panel
This fills me with glee. Next year SDCC!!
Mirage | July 20, 18:49 CET
eddy | July 20, 19:12 CET
Vin Diesel voicing Ultron I could very easily see.They could also use motion capture for him to perform the role too.
[ edited by Buffyfantic on 2013-07-21 04:20 ]
Buffyfantic | July 20, 19:16 CET
Madhatter | July 20, 19:16 CET
Simon | July 20, 19:18 CET
eddy | July 20, 19:29 CET
If they stick to Ultron having a shell of adamantium (or vibranium), along with the molecular re-arranger, then having the Scarlet Witch makes sense. During Shooter's run, she was the biggest threat to Ultron out of the Avengers.
OneTeV | July 20, 19:35 CET
Matt_Fabb | July 20, 19:39 CET
The thing about the Avengers is that they are very powerful but they are not very stable. So, there will definitely be some people that will shake them up in the next installment.
So I guess Thanos is being saved for Avengers 3? I wonder if this might mean leaving the door open for Joss to return on and work on Avengers 3. Which while it would be cool, I really would like to see more of Joss' own projects.
Matt_Fabb | July 20, 19:47 CET
Sunfire | July 20, 19:57 CET
This is Quint's description of the footage shown at Comic Con.
"The lights go down and we hear the Avengers theme.
Iron Man's helmet appears, audience cheers. Sound clips from all the Marvel movies start playing. “I am Iron Man,” “I'm always angry,”etc. I don't remember all of them, but they build to the end of the Avengers where Sam Jackson says they'll be back when they are needed.
All the while the camera sweeps in close to the Iron Man helmet. It's getting crunched, dented, misshapen. Sparks fly, crunching noises are heard. When we get that final Avengers quote the camera pulls back and the Iron Man helmet has been reforged as Ultron's helmet, an angry red light glowing out of his mouth and eye holes. Cue my eardrums being punctured by screaming fangirls (and boys, I'l be fair).
There you go. One of the best Holy **** moments of Comic-Con 2013. "
[ edited by eddy on 2013-07-21 05:24 ]
eddy | July 20, 20:00 CET
Madhatter | July 20, 20:27 CET
MrArg | July 20, 21:02 CET
So this is not just me being happy as a Whedon Fangirl, but this is me being freaking ecstatic for a Comic Fangirl.
Elf | July 20, 21:36 CET
insistondoubt | July 21, 01:22 CET
I'm guessing though that Joss's story will be that of the government wanting to create maybe some sort of robot army as a reaction to the alien invasion in the first movie. Their own army of 'Iron Men' so to speak. And I suppose they'll either have Pym on the payroll for the contract or maybe somebody's going to steal/hack some of Tony's tech?
Bit annoying that they won't be able to mention adamantium, as that's what made Ultron so fearsome in the first place, but yeah as others have mentioned they'll probably swap in Vibranium for it.
But I guess what annoys me most, is that given the time it takes to make one of these, Joss probably isn't going to stick around for number 3, and I soooo wanted to see him write & direct an Avengers-Thanos movie. As being the fan of Jim Starlin's classic work that he is, that would have been really amazing to behold.
Jas | July 21, 01:58 CET
I am also guessing (hoping?) that this is "Age of Ultron" in name only. No way a complicated time-jumping story like that could be compressed into a 2-hour movie, while introducing new brother-sister characters, still give all the mains time to shine, and be comprehensible to a wide audience.
I've noticed that Joss has managed to touch on vital moments in Avengers history, without doing a direct copy. The first Avengers comic had Loki as the villain trying to start a fight between the Hulk and the other heroes. The film had those elements, but used in a very different story. A2 might split the team into two groups, which would let us see Joss's version of "Cap's Kooky Quartet" from the very early comics.
[ edited by OneTeV on 2013-07-21 13:17 ]
OneTeV | July 21, 04:09 CET
And also now that I think about it Drew Goddard wouldn't be a bad choice at all to take over the reins there. Good choice!
Jas | July 21, 04:18 CET
Bluelark | July 21, 05:01 CET
OneTeV | July 21, 07:36 CET
banner | July 21, 10:00 CET
eddy | July 21, 10:19 CET
orangewaxlion | July 21, 14:40 CET
sumogrip | July 21, 15:47 CET
SuperScuba | July 22, 19:15 CET