Sunday, March 23, 2014

Avengers 2: Ruffalo Mo-Cap, Globe Trotting, & Tyler Scores

Mark Ruffalo has already done most of his Hulk related motion-capture work for Joss Whedon's "The Avengers: Age of Ultron".


Ruffalo tells Vulture: "I actually already shot a lot of that stuff, we did it on motion capture, so we did a lot of that on a stage. They're doing all the [background] plates for that now in South Africa, and then I start work in mid-April."

Asked if Banner gets a love interest this time, Ruffalo said "That may or may not be true."

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. Bettany will appear on screen as The Vision an android created by Ultron as a weapon to be used against the Avengers. Vision can fire beams of radiation and turn invisible--the character ultimately turned the tables on Ultron and became an Avengers member himself.

Thomas Kretschmann has landed the role of 2nd bad guy 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 He seemingly beat out rumored candidates Marton Csokas and Dougray Scott who were being considered for the BvS role. The character will have Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and her twin brother Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) apparently working for him in the sequel (American Horror Story favorite Evan Peters plays a different incarnation of the speedy superhero in Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past"--now in post-production--that film hits screens May 23rd 2014.). Korean actress  will play a bad gal role.

Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal has more details regarding the South Korean location filming for "Ultron".

Production will take place in the country between March 30th and April 14th at both Mapo Bridge and along several densely populated streets in the Gangnam area near a subway station.

There will also be "major battle and chase scenes" shot in Seoul that is expected to span 15-20 minutes of the finished movie. A Korean IT institute located on a Han River islet will serve as a key location where Ultron tries to acquire state-of-the-art technology. Soo-hyun scientist character works at that institute.

Production is underway at Bard Fortress in Italy and spy photos are out of an action sequence  being filmed.




Renner's Hawkeye, Olsen and Taylor-Johnson are on hand for the filming which doubles as a snow-bound mercenary base in Eastern Europe.

Stand-ins for RDJ and Ruffalo's Hulk are also a part of the filming this week.

Lastly  Film Music Reporter says Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World composer Brian Tyler is officially scoring the sequel...Good his work for the Marvel Cinematic Universe is really great

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