Joss Whedon Gives More Details on Ultron in 'The Avengers 2'

The Avengers: Age of Ultron hits theaters in May, but we've been getting plenty of information about the film thanks to writer and director Joss Whedon in recent weeks. In a new interview, Whedon unveiled even more information about the titular villain.

"It's our new Frankenstein myth," he told Entertainment Weekly when asked about the fear that artificial intelligences created by humans could eventually destroy us. "We create something in our own image and the thing turns on us. It has that pain of 'Well, why was I made? I want to kill Daddy.'"

In Age of Ultron, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner create the robot to try to help people, but it ultimately rebels against its creators. Whedon referred to a short story by Ray Bradbury called The Small Assassin to illustrate his point. "I don't remember seeing an artificial-intelligence movie where the robot is bonkers-the most emotionally unstable person in the film-and who has the knowledge of 3,000 years of recorded history and who's a pouty teen, all at the same time," he said.

Whedon also recently discussed the portrayal of the Hulk in The Avengers 2. "His monologue about his childhood is very poignant and lacks pronouns," he joked.. "No. You know, the talking thing is something that I sort of -- I pitch it and I take it away. It's moment to moment. Done wrong, it could kill ya. So, I'm pretty leery about that. But Banner has a significant role, and the Hulk, you know, we really held back on him for a long while in the first one. That said, there's something terrible coming that you'll love. And you know, just what makes the Hulk so hard to write is that you're pretending he's a werewolf when he's a superhero. You want it vice versa. You want to see him, Banner doesn't want to see him, but you don't want Banner to be that guy who gets in the way of you seeing him. So the question is, 'How has he progressed? How can we ring changes on what the Hulk does?' And that's not just in the screenplay. That's moment to moment, because you know that even when they are putting in post mix and temp mix, they have a library of two roars. 'Aaarrgh! Uuurrgh!' What if he wasn't roaring? I'm angry, and I'm not roaring. I'm being very polite to reporters, but I'm filled with rage."

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