Avengers: Age of Ultron is getting ever closer, and we're finally getting the first juicy details.
***UPDATE: Eight new pictures have been released and are present at the bottom.
Comic-Con must be inching ever closer, because next year’s biggest superhero epic, Avengers: Age of Ultron, is already dominating the pop culture conversation almost a year out from release.
We already ran our own thoughts about the new footage glimpsed at a London event, and now we are seeing the picture is getting the splashy treatment by Entertainment Weekly, which in addition into a picture (that finally lets at least one other superhero stand on equal footing with Tony Stark) also includes our first detailed description of the movie’s plot.
“I think it’s also about recognizing limitations,” Robert Downey Jr. told EW. “The downside of self-sacrifice is that if you make it back, you’ve been out there on the split and you’ve been turned a couple times, and you feel a little burned and traumatized.”
Downey is describing how the Avengers are tired and need a break. With the dissolution of SHIELD (as we know it, at least) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it is up to the Avengers to protect the world from monsters and horrors—and the superheroes are burnt out. In a plot development that Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire would approve of, they want to step away from their costumed alter-egos for a while, so Downey’s Iron Man invents a new A.I. super-being to fill the void for a bit: Ultron. And that’s when everything gets all Hal 9000 on the heroes.
“Ultron sees the big picture and he goes, ‘Okay, we need radical change, which will be violent and appalling, in order to make everything better,’” said director Joss Whedon. “He’s not just going ‘Muhaha, soon I’ll rule!’” Whedon even added that he is out to save us…even if it is from ourselves since humans are responsible for the vast majority of crimes and problems in the world.
Expect a sentient computer that will be able to transcend us in the Cloud and who will be able to remake himself many times over into “fearsome” physical forms.
Looks like the Avengers are going to have to cut that vacation short.
Avengers: Age of Ultron opens on May 1, 2015. And be sure to go here to see all our Avengers coverage.
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