Saying
that Marvel, and Joss Whedon are under a huge amount of pressure for Avenger:
Age of Ultron to deliver not only critically but also commercially would be an understatement.
In 2012 The Avengers was for the most part loved by fans and critics alike, and
managed to make $1.5 billion at the box-office, so whatever Age of Ultron has
up its sleeve it better be as good and bigger, which according to Whedon it is.
"Avengers: Age of Ultron
got larger than the first film," Whedon explains in an
interview to Yahoo! Movies. "I didn’t mean
for it to get larger, but the climax that I pitched was completely unhinged and
nobody said no, so that’s that. The biggest thing for me [in ‘Avengers: Age of
Ultron’] is to go deeper with the characters."
"To me, adventure film is
the best way to put it. Then science fiction, action, western, war, woman’s
picture, horror movie … I’m not kidding; every single one of those things is in
there", said Whedon when asked to describe the sequel.
At last year's San Diego
Comic-Con, Marvel unveiled a giant sized poster featuring all recurring heroes,
plus Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Vision fighting a horde of Ultrons. When
asked how faithful to the film the poster was, Whedon replied "You know
they’re going to fight Ultron. You know Ultron has a tendency to build hundreds
of Ultrons. So that’s going to lead you in a certain direction, but the hard
work of the thing is making sure everyone feels serviced and integrated. So, in
the beginning it’s fun. You’re thinking, ‘What would be fun, what would be
cool?’ The whole movie [‘Age of Ultron’] is a process of changing everything
and keeping everything the same. You want to hit all the things that made
people love the first movie, but you also want to make something new or why are
you here."
Despite sounding like the
ending of The Avengers, Whedon points out that this time the big final battle
will leave ramifications that our heroes will need to deal with in future
movies.
"The whole movie [‘Age of Ultron’] is a process of changing everything and keeping everything the same. You want to hit all the things that made people love the first movie, but you also want to make something new or why are you here," Whedon teases. "I don’t want to make The Avengers again - I did that one time. With the ending it was important for me that we felt a progression. We didn’t just feel, ‘well, no problem, we cleaned that up!’ because that’s an episode of television. That’s not a film. This film, there’s more at stake and we take that seriously."
Source - Yahoo! Movies
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