

In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark makes use of his AI assistant JARVIS (voiced by Paul Bettany) to help command automated Iron Man suites. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe however, it’s Tony Stark who creates Ultron instead and the Phase 2 movies have been building towards this. Ultron is an artificially intelligent robot and in the comics, he’s created by scientist Hank Pym (the first Ant-Man who will be played by Michael Douglas in next year's Ant-Man movie). The new origin story of Ultron was also confirmed, one that differs slightly but remains largely faithful to Marvel Comics. The cover art revealed the first official image of Ultron alongside the co-leaders of The Avengers - Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.). This antagonist is so worthy that “he” (as it refers to himself) even gets his name in the title of the film: The Avengers: Age of Ultron.Įntertainment Weekly published their Comic-Con preview double-issue this week and Marvel Studios got the cover story with The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

This time however, the cast is quite a bit bigger and they’ve got some first-look exclusive footage to debut.Ī new threat is emerging in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it might be Earth’s most dangerous yet. The cast of the sequel will return to the stage at the infamous 6000-person Hall H in the San Diego Convention Center after they appeared for the first time four years ago in one of the biggest moments in the Con's history.

After announcing the title of the film last year at Comic-Con International, Earth’s Mightiest (read: Disney’s mightiest at the box office) return to the annual pop culture and comic book event in San Diego next week for a hotly anticipated panel presentation where we expect major revelations regarding the next few years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The veil has been lifted on Joss Whedon’s sequel to The Avengers and story details are beginning to roll in.
