Joss Whedon Offers Numerous Details on 'The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron'

Joss Whedon's guiding hand is back for The Avengers: Age of Ultron as the writer/director to the sequel of one of the most successful movies ever made. The movie does not release for anther several months, but Whedon offered numerous details on the film in an interview on set.

Fandango reports several journalists were on set this year when Whedon directed a fight scene between Thor and Vision, and the director went into great detail about several topics. First, how does The Avengers 2 compare to the first movie?

"The cast is bigger," Whedon said. "The scope is bigger. We have more to work with. We have a bigger world to work with and a bigger world for [the Avengers] just to be in. Once they exist as a team, we have to deal with what everybody thinks about that, and what that means to the world. So it's not as simple as it was."

Whedon also said he knew he wanted Ultron as the villain of the sequel from the get-go. "Before I took the first job," he said, "I said, 'Well, I don't know if I'm right for this or if I want it or you want me, but in the second one, the villain has to be Ultron and he has to create the Vision, and [he] has to be Paul Bettany.' It took me three years before I could tell Paul that I'd had that conversation."

Whedon discussed Ultron's origin in the movie and said the robot is Tony Stark and Bruce Banner's "next great idea."

"In the Marvel universe, there's a lot of Frankensteins," he explained. "Steve Rogers himself, one of the better-looking Frankensteins of our era. There's a lot of people, whether they're trying to do good or bad, who think they have the next big idea. And the next big idea is usually a very bad one."

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