Jeez it feels like a lifetime since we brought you some Marvel news right..? Marvel has been on an absolute roll lately and earlier this week they announced their Phase Three line-up during a special event in Los Angeles. Since the reveal Kevin Feige has been attempting to answer all the questions revolving the new movies, what we might expect and reasons behind certain characters not getting a look in.
Recently Robert Downey Jr. has been speaking to Marvel.com about Avengers: Age of Ultron – watch the trailer here, get our reaction here – and more specifically he’s been praising writer/director Joss Whedon:
“First of all, [Joss is] a good writer. I always tend to think, generally speaking, is this a movie I want to see? Because all the fine points are going to get worked out. This time, I think that from jump I thought wow, this is what I hadn’t figured out beforehand. This is what ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ should be. I was done with the first draft and I said, ‘Cool. I like it.’ Kevin [Feige] was like, ‘Wait, what did you just say?’ [laughs] And [Joss] is continuing to write, even as we’re setting up shots. He’s bringing back in a line that was in the first draft or whatever.”
RDJ continued by saying how much Whedon helped bring the cast together:
“This time around, I just want to say in summary it’s been fun. We all have become close. It just seems like we’re all genuinely developing relationships with each other. And I think the start and end of it is in trusting Joss. That he really, really knows what he’s doing.”
Avengers: Age of Ultron is set for release in the UK on April 24th 2015 and North America on May 1st 2015. Joss Whedon directs a cast that includes Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Mark Ruffalo (The Incredible Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Paul Bettany (JARVIS / The Vision), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Quicksilver), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), James Spader (Ultron), Thomas Kretschmann (Baron Strucker), and Josh Brolin (Thanos).
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Originally published October 31, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
