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First official photos from Avengers: Age of Ultron revealed!

July 16th, 2014 by Irwin Fletcher Comments

Entertainment Weekly has revealed the cover for their latest issue and with it comes our first official look at Avengers: Age of Ultron! The magazine also offers some new details on the film, including the reason for Ultron’s creation.

EW reports that Tony Stark will build Ultron as a tool to help save the world and to provide the rest of The Avengers some time off. Stark’s plan is for Ultron to be be an all-seeing, all-knowing captain of a planetary police force known as the Iron Legion, a team of robots who resemble blue-and-white versions of Iron Man. Of course Ultron decides to wipe us out for the good of the planet.

The best laid plans right?

Joss Whedon reveals:

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’; he’s not just going ‘Muhaha, soon I’ll rule!’ He’s on a mission. He wants to save us.”

The cover above reveals that Ultron will indeed have drones as rumored. The photos below offer some interesting tidbits too. One group photo looks like an Avengers celebration that was rumored and Mjolnir sitting on the table, might mean they take turns trying to lift it as the rumor said. In the same pic we also see Don Cheadle’s James Rhodes aka War Machine/Iron Patriot. We can also catch a glimpse of the Hulk’s purple pants on the clothes rack.

UPDATE:

EW goes into detail about the party scene and the Ultron attack that ruins it.

“In one of the opening scenes, the gang is celebrating with a swank party in the peak of Stark’s New York City skyscraper—formerly Stark Tower, it’s now the headquarters for the Avengers.

Stark sees the soiree as a chance for the Avengers to schmooze with the city’s powerbrokers in a post-S.H.I.E.L.D. environment, showing that they are not merely superpowered vigilantes. Half-filled glasses of wine, bottles of beer, and partially eaten plates of sushi and cookies litter the tables in this three-story marble and steel structure, constructed entirely within the soundstage—complete with a loading dock for the Quinjet and an upstairs laboratory for Stark and Banner (Mark Ruffalo) to blind themselves with science.

Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has put aside the cape and chest plate for a t-shirt and slacks, while Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow has swapped her leathery catsuit for an empire-waist cocktail dress with a billowing skirt—which helps hide the actress’s real-life pregnancy.

Banner looks a little uptight in his purple button-down and tweedy jacket, while Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye is in wallflower mode, lingering on the periphery by himself, ever the loner. Chris Evans’ Captain America is making small talk with former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders). Most of the partygoers have left; now it’s just the old friends lingering.

AFTERPARTY AFTERMATH

That’s when all hell breaks loose. The Legionnaires have suddenly activated, and are inexplicably trying to kill the heroes. In the chaos, Ultron—in one of his first, metallic forms—announces his new plan to bring peace to the planet—by eradicating the most destructive thing that walks on it: humans.

In the midst of the assault scene, Downey finds himself suspended 50 feet above the set, riding piggyback on an actor in a motion-capture suit who will be digitally replaced with a hovering, hostile Legionnaire.

With no armor at his disposal, Stark grabs the only weapon handy—a fondue fork—and jams it into the robot soldier’s neck as they bang around the ceiling. “The deadliest fondue fork in all the land!” Whedon jokes. “From Odin’s melted cheese, I shall destroy thee!”

Even without their battle gear, the Avengers make short work of the traitorous, mechanical assailants. But Ultron is just getting started. He’s now thinking for himself … and they are not happy thoughts.

“I know you’re ‘good’ people,” he tells them. “I know you mean well… but you just didn’t think it through… There is only one path to peace… your extermination.” In the next shot, focused on the heroes’ reactions, the patronizing snarl of Ultron is delivered off camera by Whedon.

A few days before this scene was shot, however, Spader himself stood before the cast, hissing out the words like a bored prosecutor making the case against humanity.”

Written and directed by Joss Whedon, Avengers: Age of Ultron stars Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Thomas Kretschmann, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and James Spader.

The Age of Ultron begins on May 1st, 2015.

 

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