"A lot of people, because we called it Age of Ultron and there was a book called Age of Age of Ultron recently, assumed that was the storyline we were doing which is not the case. We're doing our own version of the origin story of Ultron. The other thing is in the origin story, there was Hank Pym, so a lot of people assumed he was going to be in the mix, but he's not because we're basically taking the things from the comics for the movies that we need and can use. A lot of stuff has to fall by the way side. Ultron was their chief villain when I read the book. He has been THE Avengers villain for so long, I was amazed anybody was surprised it was going to be him in a movie. But we're sort of crafting our own version of it, where his origin comes more from The Avengers that we already know about it. Since before I even took the job of making the first one, I thought 'Well I don't know if I want to make this movie, but the second one should have Ultron in it!' Ultron is definitely somebody who evolves so we're going to get a couple of iterations, it's going to be cool."
What about the differences between the sequel and the first movie?
Whedon says the film has a bit more sci-fi in it, and one character finally gets to be himself.:
"It's a little bit darker than the other film, because Ultron is in the house there's a science fiction element that I think is a little bit stronger than the other film. Getting the team together was so rousing, but seriously, keeping the team together is a completely different problem. Part of the fun for me, definitely, this time around is writing Hawkeye, because he did get possessed pretty early by a bad guy and sort of had to walk around scowley for most of the movie last time. So now it's nice to actually have the character there and really see him interact with the other guys."
Whedon confirms that production on the sequel begins late February/early March next year in the UK.
Whedon tells the AP that in his current draft of the script for "The Avengers 2," actor Clark Gregg's beloved agent Phil Coulson character does NOT appear--despite his resurrection in the upcoming "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." TV series.
"He could. Right now it's not something I'm pursuing because I have so much going on in 'Avengers 2.' Finding out that Coulson is alive would be an entire B story. I already have too much movie. That's better than the other thing."
Whedon says that he doesn't want to rely too much on crossover with the upcoming TV series due to concerns about audience erosion:
"We also have the movies and we have TV and we need to make sure there's some crossover, but not so much that people go, 'Well, I don't need to see that movie. I saw it on TV.' If we do that (Marvel Studio suit) Kevin Feige is going to come after me with a pitchfork"
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