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| Avengers: Age of Ultron film trailer released by Marvel after leak | Avengers: Age of Ultron film trailer released by Marvel after leak |
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| “Dammit Hydra!” Marvel’s tweet showed they were taking it on the chin of their glitchy Mark 42 Iron Man helmet when the trailer for Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron film was leaked online on Wednesday – a week before its intended preview during the Agents of SHIELD TV series. | |
| Within a few hours, the studio did the smart thing and tweeted its own official version in HD. | Within a few hours, the studio did the smart thing and tweeted its own official version in HD. |
| Here it is! Watch the @Avengers: #AgeofUltron Teaser Trailer right NOW: http://t.co/pGnQIskF8c #Avengers | Here it is! Watch the @Avengers: #AgeofUltron Teaser Trailer right NOW: http://t.co/pGnQIskF8c #Avengers |
| The trailer – eagerly awaited by much of Midgard since the credits rolled on the first Avengers film in 2012 – gives tantalising glimpses of further characters and references from Marvel’s comics being woven into its big-screen universe. | The trailer – eagerly awaited by much of Midgard since the credits rolled on the first Avengers film in 2012 – gives tantalising glimpses of further characters and references from Marvel’s comics being woven into its big-screen universe. |
| Most obviously, perhaps, Ultron, artificial intelligence and villain of this sequel, appears to don the Hulkbuster armour from the Iron Man comics – Tony Stark’s solution if sustained combat with his unpredictable ally becomes necessary. | Most obviously, perhaps, Ultron, artificial intelligence and villain of this sequel, appears to don the Hulkbuster armour from the Iron Man comics – Tony Stark’s solution if sustained combat with his unpredictable ally becomes necessary. |
| The genius-billionaire-playboy-philanthropist’s renouncement of superhero duties, marked at the end of Iron Man 3, when he invokes the “clean slate protocol”, doesn’t seem to have worked out quite as planned, with Ultron appearing to build himself from discarded Stark armour. Captain America kicking open the door of what looks like a European mountain fortress suggests the Nazi offshoot Hydra might be rearing its many ugly heads once again. | The genius-billionaire-playboy-philanthropist’s renouncement of superhero duties, marked at the end of Iron Man 3, when he invokes the “clean slate protocol”, doesn’t seem to have worked out quite as planned, with Ultron appearing to build himself from discarded Stark armour. Captain America kicking open the door of what looks like a European mountain fortress suggests the Nazi offshoot Hydra might be rearing its many ugly heads once again. |
| Andy Serkis, the Lord of the Rings’ Gollum, makes a brief appearance looking bearded, grubby, sweaty and harried. His part in the action is yet to be explained – Serkis was originally thought simply to have been helping Marvel out with motion capture sequences. In the clip his short back and sides haircut and drab uniform-like shirt hint at a tie-in with Captain America’s second world war super-soldier back story. | Andy Serkis, the Lord of the Rings’ Gollum, makes a brief appearance looking bearded, grubby, sweaty and harried. His part in the action is yet to be explained – Serkis was originally thought simply to have been helping Marvel out with motion capture sequences. In the clip his short back and sides haircut and drab uniform-like shirt hint at a tie-in with Captain America’s second world war super-soldier back story. |
| James Spader voices Ultron in menacing tones, sounding a bit like yet another Hugo Weaving portrayal. Weaving, of course, is currently trapped in a Marvel parallel universe as Red Skull. | James Spader voices Ultron in menacing tones, sounding a bit like yet another Hugo Weaving portrayal. Weaving, of course, is currently trapped in a Marvel parallel universe as Red Skull. |
| While not in the trailer, Paul Bettany, who normally does the voice of Jarvis, Stark’s own artificial intelligence sidekick, is rumoured to be playing the Vision, a deceased superhero’s mind placed in one of Ultron’s earlier bodies. There’s further talk that Tony Stark may even sacrifice himself in this movie and Bettany as Vision will be the new Iron Man. | While not in the trailer, Paul Bettany, who normally does the voice of Jarvis, Stark’s own artificial intelligence sidekick, is rumoured to be playing the Vision, a deceased superhero’s mind placed in one of Ultron’s earlier bodies. There’s further talk that Tony Stark may even sacrifice himself in this movie and Bettany as Vision will be the new Iron Man. |
| So what else does the trailer tell us? We’re still waiting to see whether Captain America will use his ability, as yet unmentioned in the films and unknown to Cap, to wield Thor’s hammer – and with it the demigod’s power. Was Anthony Hopkins’s whispered spell about being “worthy”, as he cast his defiant son out of Asgaard in the first Thor movie, a hint that this might come to pass? Is Thor dropping his hammer to the ground in the Ultron trailer a further clue? | So what else does the trailer tell us? We’re still waiting to see whether Captain America will use his ability, as yet unmentioned in the films and unknown to Cap, to wield Thor’s hammer – and with it the demigod’s power. Was Anthony Hopkins’s whispered spell about being “worthy”, as he cast his defiant son out of Asgaard in the first Thor movie, a hint that this might come to pass? Is Thor dropping his hammer to the ground in the Ultron trailer a further clue? |
| Marvel can hardly complain about the leak, having taken a stand against official secrecy with the storyline of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Let’s wait and see whether the Hydra agent lurking at the heart of the studio has further treats in store of us – or whether the forces of good will get in first. | Marvel can hardly complain about the leak, having taken a stand against official secrecy with the storyline of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Let’s wait and see whether the Hydra agent lurking at the heart of the studio has further treats in store of us – or whether the forces of good will get in first. |