No longer just a disembodied voice, Paul Bettany will go from JARVIS to The Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
If the movie is called Avengers: Age of Ultron, then it seems quite reasonable that the Vision would make his big screen debut as well. After all, it was Ultron who was responsible for the creation of Vision, in an attempt to infiltrate and destroy the Avengers. There had been reports that Paul Bettany, the voice of Jarvis, was undergoing makeup and costume tests related to Avengers: Age of Ultron, and now he's confirmed, thanks to an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, that he is, in fact, taking physical form as the Vision.
Watch the segment here, which leaves no doubt that Mr. Bettany is going to join the ranks of the Avengers in some capacity:
Now, for that extra layer of comic book detail, we'd like to remind everyone that Vision was created from the body of the original Human Torch (not Johnny Storm, but the flaming android of the Golden Age), and that character had a quick cameo in Captain America: The First Avenger:
Whether this ends up meaning anything in Avengers: Age of Ultron remains to be seen. But it is nice to see Marvel connecting the dots like this.
Paul Bettany can next be seen in Transcendence which opens on April 18th.
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