Warning: The events of Captain America: Winter Soldier and other Marvel movies are discussed...

We're less than a month away from the release of Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron -- which leads into Civil War, Spider-Man in the MCU, Black Panther, and more.

Thor vs... Vision!?

IGN had the opportunity to visit the set of the Joss Whedon-helmed sequel, along with a small group of reporters. While there, we talked to Marvel producer Jeremy Latcham about the upcoming movie, including Paul Bettany's transition into playing Vision, Age of Ultron's finale topping the Battle of New York, and the Hulk's limited exposure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe...

Mark Ruffalo Teases The Hulk's Future

What's going on? Well, a little bit of a fight. How much have you guys seen? Thor and Vision fighting with each other? So that's essentially what we're watching, the arrival of Vision into the madness of the movie. I think it's going to be a really cool moment. And there's a lot of fun to be had in this scene because a lot of things are crystallized when he shows up -- and a lot of big truths about the Marvel Universe are uncovered in the process, which I think will be fun to see happen. So, yeah, we're in the middle of a big fight today that you guys are getting to see a small part of.

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Starting Off with a Bang

“ It's a lot of adventure right up front. The idea was that we just come into it, and the team is back together.

Where in the Timeline

They are around. We actually shot their part yesterday. So there's a bit of aftermath that we shot yesterday with the rest of the team, which was kinda fun.Well, I can walk you through a little bit of the beats. Essentially, a lot of what people have been reading online is true, which is very frustrating. But we open with Strucker, and he has this thing. And the Avengers are trying to clean up the messes they've kind of been responsible for. Part of the fun of this movie is that we start with the team together. Very early on we said that we didn't want to structure the film in a way that we had to go gather the team again, because we felt like we'd already done that kind of movie. So Joss's inception right away was to have the first frame of the movie -- you do not want to go get popcorn and walk in two minutes late to this movie because you miss probably one of the biggest shots in the whole film: a gigantic, out-of-the-gate, big, huge shot of the whole team in action. It's exciting.And it's a lot of adventure right up front. The idea was that we just come into it, and the team is back together, and they're in action -- and this is the team. It's implied that they had adventures off screen that we haven't seen and that they've been working towards a common goal. That goal is to clean up all the messes that they've collectively been involved in that involves the fall of SHIELD -- which Cap and Natasha are responsible for that -- [and] the scepter getting left on Earth -- which Thor probably should've taken it home, and it was probably an oversight on his part to trust these idiots on Earth with this thing.So the movie starts out with the team together on a mission, and they think this is probably the end of it. If they can get this thing back, if they could put everything to rest, they could probably say the world's a safe place and go, "Mission accomplished." But of course, for the Avengers, nothing's ever that easy, and it gets ugly quickly, and there's a lot to do as a result.

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Newbie Avengers: Friends or Foes?

We don't put a date on it, but it's implied that the events [of Winter Soldier] have happened, and we're a little bit a ways from it. I don't know, maybe a couple months.Yes, exactly.Well, one of the challenges we had on the first movie, from a structural standpoint, was the Avengers were only ever fighting Loki, and Loki was always by himself. There was never really anyone for him to talk to, and so it became complicated when the Avengers had to capture him so that you could find out what he was up to. Joss very much wanted to set it up so that it was not just Ultron by himself. We wanted to kind of have a bit more of a dynamic on the bad guy's side.There are so many heroes, [and] we just didn't want to have the villain just floating by himself. So structurally, as we were putting the movie together early on, it made sense to have a little bit more on that side of the fence. Then we always knew we wanted these guys to ultimately have a transition throughout the story. I think that the transition [Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch] have, the one in the future, is really natural. I think there's a lot of people in the world who just rage against the machine, that blame the powers that be for the situation they find [themselves] in and that the Avengers are kinda getting swept up in this thing of, they're to blame -- even though they haven't necessarily done anything to earn that.

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“ Tony Stark has a dark past, and we often forget that... So there's a fun part of paying for past sins that I think plays into this in a cool way.

But because of the superstructure that they were a part of SHIELD, the West, this whole thing, these kids living in eastern Europe kind of have this hatred for the whole structure that the Avengers are a part of. So there's definitely this disenfranchised youth kind of vibe and these kids whose lives they blame on the Avengers for the state of their lives. I think that's a fun thing to play with, because over the course of the movie we find out that maybe it's not the Avengers that were actually responsible for any of it.We've definitely given them an origin story that's connected to the stone and the scepter. The gem and the scepter are a big part of the story that we're telling. For us, everything in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that we're telling is very unified. The themes that connect our universe have been kind of seeded and running for a while. So the Mutant thing was never an issue. Even if we had that, it wouldn't really tie into the stories we're telling, so it was never a consideration. It was like, "Oh, yeah, well, this is how this happens in our world." It made complete sense to us to tell the story without them being a part of it.They're called Miracles, they're called Enhanced. There's a bunch of different words that describe them. People are struggling to figure out in the story where [the anomaly] came from and how it's arrived. It's kind of a mystery that we get to unravel in the film.

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From JARVIS to Vision

It's super exciting. I mean, we've been wanting to do something. When we cast Paul Bettany to play JARVIS back in Iron Man 1, it was always with the intention that there was something to be done. We weren't sure what, but there was a reason we didn't just cast a voiceover actor. There was a reason we cast a great actor like Paul Bettany to play the role back in 2007. We weren't sure what it was or what it was going to become. When Joss pitched that he became the Vision, it was like, "Yeah, that's been there the whole time."I mean, look at him. He's got this perfectly symmetrical face. He looks like the Vision. It's super exciting. We had actually written a part for him in Iron Man 2, back in the day, that we took out -- a flashback. So there's always been this notion that we wanted to play with Paul Bettany, the actor, being more than just the voice of JARVIS. So it's been a long time coming, how we came to this conclusion, and I couldn't be happier with it.

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Yeah, yeah, it was definitely a big light-bulb moment of awesome, you know? That's exciting. We really got psyched when it all came to fruition.It was a similar kind of -- not similar, but there was a flashback notion that related back to Tony's past, kind of where the idea of JARVIS came from, out of Tony's past and his father -- that kind of thing.Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.I probably shouldn't, but there's definitely a connection. There's also definitely a connection between Vision and Ultron, which is from the comics. We're definitely trying to do that version of it in a cool way.