Monday, December 23, 2013

The Avengers: Age of Ultron: Is There A 2nd Bad Guy?

A new casting breakdown is rumored to be making the rounds for a key supporting role in "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" for writer/director Joss Whedon.


Latino Review reports that the part is that of a physically imposing Caucasian man in his 40s--who would play Baron von Strucker.

In the comics, the seemingly immortal Strucker is one of the leaders of Hydra, and an enemy of both S.H.I.E.L.D and The Avengers.

POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD

A post on HitFix claims that Von Strucker will have Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and her twin brother Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) apparently working for him. They also claim that Marton Csokas and Dougray Scott are being considered for the role. ( American Horror Story favorite Evan Peters plays a different incarnation of Quicksilver in Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past"--now in post-production--that film hits screens May 23rd 2014.)

While the sequel DOES NOT follow the Age of Ultron comics storyline--in which the big bad Ultron was created by Hank Pym who becomes Ant-Man. James Spader will both voice Ultron, and he'll have to do some kind of motion-capture as well--This news puts to rest the most popular theory suggesting that Tony Stark's (Robert Downey Jr,) robot butler J.A.R.V.I.S. (voiced by Paul Bettany) operating system from the Iron Man Films would turn into the villain.

Marvel vets RDJ, Chris Evans Chris Hemsworth Scarlett Johansson Samuel L. Jackson Jeremy Renner Mark Ruffalo, Clark Gregg and Cobie Smulders are all expected back Two time Iron Man co-star Don Cheadle is involved this time out according to USA Today

Production on the 'Avengers' sequel is slated to begin in March to meet a release date of May 1, 2015

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