This week, Yahoo Movies was treated to a special behind-closed-doors look at footage from two of Marvel’s upcoming superhero films. You can read all about ‘Ant-Man’ and why we should stop worrying about the Edgar Wright fiasco right here.

The second film to be previewed was ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, the much-anticipated sequel to Joss Whedon’s 2012 team up movie which looks set to be a very different proposition to the first film. Where 2012’s ‘The Avengers’ spent much of its runtime gathering our primary-hued heroes together to take on the witty Loki and his army of faceless aliens in an affable and charming romp, from what little we’ve so far, ‘Age of Ultron’ looks more akin to a horror film.

Taking cues from ‘Terminator’, ’Night of the Living Dead’ and ‘Frankenstein’, the ‘Age of Ultron’ footage introduces the titular villain in such a menacing manner, we think the sentient robot could soon be challenging Tom Hiddleston’s Loki for the title of greatest Marvel movie villain. The studio has taken a bit of flack of late for their “bland” baddies, but this could all change with Ultron.

The footage begins innocuously enough with the Avengers relaxing in the Avengers Tower (Stark Tower from ‘The Avengers’ has been given a makeover) over a beer. Thor challenges his team-mates to see if any of them can lift Mjolnir, his mighty power-granting hammer, from the table.

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They all try and fail – well, apart from Black Widow who refuses to be drawn into the macho swaggering – before their revelry is interrupted by Ultron, who is voiced by James Spader.



It’s a damaged and limping early version of the robot, in fact, he’s more zombie than robot with half of his body missing, sparks flying from his missing arm’s socket. “You’re all killers. You want to protect the world, but you don’t want change,” he says with a grating metallic voice. “There’s only one path to peace: your extinction.”

Above: An early incarnation of Ultron as seen at Comic-Con (Credit: Twitter/Avengers

Robot drones (or could they be Iron Man suits?) then burst through the wall and the footage cuts to black.



Ultron’s voice intones, “I have a vision. The whole world, screaming for mercy. Everyone, tangling, strings.” We then get a look at various bits of footage from the rest of the film.



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