As if it needed to be confirmed, Marvel announces that
actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson and actress Elizabeth Olsen have been officially casted
to play Quicksilver and his sister Scarlet Witch in Jos Whedon’s Avengers: Age
of Ultron.
Press Release:
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen have
officially joined the Avengers family as the brother-sister duo of Quicksilver
and Scarlet Witch in Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron," the
highly-anticipated sequel to 2012's smash-hit "Marvel's The Avengers"!
"Avengers: Age of Ultron" arrives in theaters May 1, 2015.
Taylor-Johnson broke out with his roles as Dave
Lizewski in the "Kick-Ass" franchise and with his portrayal of a
young John Lennon in "Nowhere Boy," for which he won an Empire Award
for Best Newcomer. Since then, Taylor Johnson has starred in 2012's
critically-acclaimed "Anna Karenina" and director Oliver Stone's
"Savages."
Since making her big screen debut in 2011 with
"Silent House" and "Martha Marcy May Marlene," for which
the actress garnered a number of awards and nominations, Olsen has gone on to
star alongside the likes of Robert DeNiro and Sigourney Weaver in "Red
Lights," Josh Brolin and Samuel L. Jackson in director Spike Lee's
"Oldboy."
Taylor-Johnson and Olsen will share the screen as
leads in the highly anticipated "Godzilla" remake scheduled for a May
2014 release.
"Avengers: Age of Ultron" will bring the
Marvel Universe's biggest heroes together again to face one of their biggest
villains, with "Marvel's The Avengers" director Joss Whedon returning
to write and direct the sequel. "Marvel's The Avengers" was released
in 2012 and went on to earn $1.5 billion worldwide, making it the third-largest
grossing movie of all time.
In addition to "Avengers: Age of Ultron,"
Marvel Studios will release a slate of films based on the Marvel characters
including "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" on April 4, 2014;
"Guardians of the Galaxy" on August 1, 2014; and "Ant-Man"
on July 31, 2015.
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