Marvel Confirms Andy Serkis is Ulysses Klaw in The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron

Marvel put to bed any speculation about Andy Serkis' character in The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron, as the company provided Stitch Kingdom with captions for the 16 official production images released earlier this week. Those captions reveal the identities of the characters and list Serkis as the Black Panther enemy named Ulysses Klaw.

When Serkis appeared in the first trailer for Age of Ultron, many fans speculated that he looked like the Black Panther villain Ulysses Klaw. In the second trailer, he appeared wearing a necklace with a claw pendant, which only fueled the speculation.

Schmoes Know later reported that Serkis' is indeed playing Klaw in Age of Ultron and adds "this version of Klaw will be a sort of amalgamation of both Klaw and his father in the comics, Fritz Klaue," the latter of whom has a history with the Howling Commandos and Baron von Strucker in the comics "and from what we hear in the film as well." The site further reports that Fritz could appear briefly in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but "most of his attributes will be given to Serkis' Klaw."

Paul Bettany will go from the voice of JARVIS to portraying the Vision in Age of Ultron later this year. In a recent interview, the actor teased the epic scope of the film.

"I've never been on a bigger set on my entire life than in The Avengers {Age of Ultron], the actor told RadioTimes. "One [part] seemed to be the corner of a town, with helicopter cameras, and drone cameras flying about. I just haven't seen anything that big, so it was like being a kid on a film set again."

"This is the biggest thing Marvel have ever done," he continued. "It was enormous. I remember, we were at Comic-con, and they showed a portion of the footage, and I was just gobsmacked. And I looked down the row and every one of the Avengers was the same."