Avengers: Age of Ultron Film Review

Avengers: Age of Ultron

This time, we take a look at the techno God complex blockbuster, Avengers: Age of Ultron and along the way we ask, was this the last true standalone film in the MCU, how could ten seconds on the Internet make you want to destroy the world and how does Tony Stark make artificial intelligence look so easy? Let’s dive in….

CAST & CREW

* Written and directed by Joss Whedon: Following the success of The Avengers in 2012, Disney and MCU architect Kevin Feige, immediately hired Whedon to write and direct the sequel for the series. Whedon drew inspiration from The Empire Strikes Back and The Godfather Part II when constructing the screenplay and character arcs

* The majority of the cast from the first film return to reprise their roles from the previous film including:

* Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark/Iron Man

* Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America

* Chris Hemsworth as Thor

* Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow

* Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk

* Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye

* Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill

* Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury

* Paul Bettany as JARVIS/Vision

* Several familiar faces return to the MCU to reprise their roles from previous films as well as many newcomers:

* 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

* James Spader as Ultron

* Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue

Creating Age of Ultron and the Unused Ideas

As Whedon was essentially given carte blanche to do with the plot as he saw fit, several ideas were concocted for the film but would wind up being unused. These ideas included:

* Introducing Captain Marvel but this was shot down by Kevin Feige after concluding that it would be too early to introduce the character. She was later given her introduction in 2019’s Captain Marvel

* Introducing the Maximoff twins caused speculation as to whether or not mutants would be introduced in the MCU but at the time of production, the X-Men and the rights to the characters in that series belonged to 20th Century Fox which had not yet been acquired by Disney. Given the studio’s acquisition of the now named 20th Century Films, it’s likely we will be seeing the mutants and their respective characters arrive in the MCU in the next several years.

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