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[Campe]

New promo photo released (click for full size):

I have this feeling at least two (maybe three) of these characters will not survive this scene.

 

[DEWLine]

I have been very afraid for Maria Hill and Jim Rhodes for a while now.

 

[Chris3123]

More promo art, including two more good looks at Vision and one of Ultron.

Link

 

[Relayer1]

I have been very afraid for Maria Hill and Jim Rhodes for a while now.

They can't keep killing off all the interesting / well known SHIELD agents like Victoria Hand.

Rhodes should be O.K. - they'll need him to be Iron Man when RDJr. quits. Unless they recast Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Tony (which would work for me).

 

[Mr Light]

Morgan is 48 he's too old. Downey is 49 and he's heading out because he's too old. They need someone to last another decade's worth of movies.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I just watched the Ultron two parter from Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes and methinks this is a blueprint for the movie. Ultron (created by Pym and augmented by Stark) takes over the world's electronics and fires every nuke to kill humanity. He kills Thor in their first encounter and Thor goes to the afterlife, only to return at the last second to lay the final smackdown on Ultron. And what was Ultron's opening move? Taking over all of Iron Man's armor suits to ambush the Avengers in their tower!

*sigh* What a shame that the series was cancelled.

True. It was lively, and captured the heart of the source material in a way the movies have not.

 

[Skywalker]

Morgan is 48 he's too old. Downey is 49 and he's heading out because he's too old. They need someone to last another decade's worth of movies.

Colin Farrell would be a good Tony Stark.

No, seriously.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Morgan is 48 he's too old. Downey is 49 and he's heading out because he's too old. They need someone to last another decade's worth of movies.

Colin Farrell would be a good Tony Stark.

No, seriously.

I'm not a big fan of Colin Farrell but, but he was really good as a drunk in Saving Mr. Banks. However he just doesn't have the personality to take on Stark. Good thinking outside the box but I'm going to say no.

 

[Shazam!]

James Franco is my pick to take over RDJ

 

[JD]

I just think it works better that Ultron is the creation of man, whether it's Hank Pym or Tony Stark. Using alien tech takes away the "human" element of rebelling against your creator. I know that's what's gonna happen but it's better if they create it rather than adapt it.

Spoiler: Ulltron's origin

I do agree it is kind of a big change, but I think it is a bit of a nice connection between the two movies.

 

[Corran Horn]

Figuring that the backstory change was almost inevitable.

They can't make whatever happens 100% Stark/Banner's faults...particularly if tons of people get killed. Hard for characters to come back from that in this type of movie.

 

[kitik]

Commercial during the college football semifinal today said that they'd debut a brand new Avengers trailer during the final on January 12.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

Man. I can't wait for the An-Man & new Avengers: AoU Trailers!

 

[Relayer1]

Morgan is 48 he's too old. Downey is 49 and he's heading out because he's too old. They need someone to last another decade's worth of movies.

I don't think it's so much the age - both could easily pass for ten years younger. It's more a matter of waning interest / rocketing slaries.

Morgan (or whoever) would probably jump at the chance, be cheper, more motivated and stick with the part for a good few years.

I'd love RDjr. to do it for the next ten years, but it's not going to happen. Morgan would still be my ideal recast. Besides, Tony's power is in his brain and his super suit. Who says he couldn't carry on into his 50's and further ?

 

[DWF]

Morgan is 48 he's too old. Downey is 49 and he's heading out because he's too old. They need someone to last another decade's worth of movies.

I don't think it's so much the age - both could easily pass for ten years younger. It's more a matter of waning interest / rocketing slaries.

Morgan (or whoever) would probably jump at the chance, be cheper, more motivated and stick with the part for a good few years.

I'd love RDjr. to do it for the next ten years, but it's not going to happen. Morgan would still be my ideal recast. Besides, Tony's power is in his brain and his super suit. Who says he couldn't carry on into his 50's and further ?

Morgan has been cast as Col. Flagg in the Suicide Squad movie and if it takes off he's going to be pretty busy.

 

[Samurai8472]

BTW, the Ultron bio contains spoilers for his origin. It says that

Spoiler: Ultron

The program Tony adapts for Ultron was discovered in the Chitauri invasion aftermath.

The official description of the movie

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance.

So Hank Pym could have created it in the 60's but stopped working on it

During the battle in the New York with all the Chitauri something was uncovered

So it doesn't have to be Chitauri origin based.

 

[Relayer1]

Morgan is 48 he's too old. Downey is 49 and he's heading out because he's too old. They need someone to last another decade's worth of movies.

I don't think it's so much the age - both could easily pass for ten years younger. It's more a matter of waning interest / rocketing slaries.

Morgan (or whoever) would probably jump at the chance, be cheper, more motivated and stick with the part for a good few years.

I'd love RDjr. to do it for the next ten years, but it's not going to happen. Morgan would still be my ideal recast. Besides, Tony's power is in his brain and his super suit. Who says he couldn't carry on into his 50's and further ?

Morgan has been cast as Col. Flagg in the Suicide Squad movie and if it takes off he's going to be pretty busy.

I'd be surprised if Suicide Squad really takes off (or any of the DC movies for that matter) but that may well rule him out.

I still think he'd be the perfect recast, for what that's worth...

 

[FPAlpha]

New promo photo released (click for full size):

I have this feeling at least two (maybe three) of these characters will not survive this scene.

Who is the woman standing next to Thor? I can't recognize her. On the far left is Maria Hill and on the far right is Black Widow.

As to Ultron's origins.. i could see Stark getting ideas from the Chitauri tech and putting his own spin on it which then slips out of his hands once it gains sentience and proves to be malevolent. I don't have a problem with that because they already changed many things for the MCU so it works in the movies.

They already made a change by giving Hank Pym's role to Stark so one more change is not going to end the world.

 

[SalvorHardin]

New promo photo released (click for full size):

I have this feeling at least two (maybe three) of these characters will not survive this scene.

Who is the woman standing next to Thor? I can't recognize her.

Korean actress Kim Soo-hyun.
I've heard that she may be playing Suzi Endo who worked for Stark's cybernetics department. But that's not confirmed yet, I think.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Something more recent said Dr. Cho.