James Spader has just been cast as the titular bad guy in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” He will play role of the team’s most reviled villain and the artificial intelligence known as Ultron, as he is the Emmy award-winning actor.
This casting — and the press release’s lack of details outside of Spader’s name — has called into question a few things we already know about the evil robot, as well as created a few new ones.
At a Comic-Con panel in July, Whedon teased the sequel’s storyline. “We’re doing our own version of the origin story of Ultron,” he said.
The powers of Ultron is uncountable,including heightened strength, stamina, durability, speed and reflexes in addition to flight capability and concussive energy blasts — but turning into a human has never been a prominent power of his.
Joss Whedon has already said that he wants to humanize Ultron a little bit, and what better way to do that than by making the villain a living, breathing human?