If you thought the New York-levelling finale of ‘The Avengers’ was huge, Joss Whedon says you aint seen nothing yet, promising an even more epic climax in the forthcoming sequel.

“[‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’] got larger than the first film,” Whedon explains to Yahoo Movies.

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“I didn’t mean for it to get larger, but the climax that I pitched was completely unhinged and nobody said no, so that’s that.”

We caught up with the director on the film’s lavish Shepperton set in May last year to talk about how he planned to up the ante for the sequel to the most successful superhero film of all time.

Here’s what we found out.

Love is in the air (maybe)

The first official poster for ‘Age of Ultron’, which was unveiled earlier this week, boasts more A-list stars than the presenter roster at the Oscars. It’s a hard enough task for the graphic designer to squeeze all the stars onto one poster, so making sure all the actors are properly serviced in the script sounds like a gargantuan task.

While Whedon didn’t tell us how each role would be pumped for Age of Ultron, he did hint that Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo’s characters — Black Widow and the Hulk, respectively — have “a great deal to do” in the new film.

Even more intriguingly, Ruffalo indicated that a romance might on the cards for his character, saying Banner could be “finding love at some point.” The first trailer indicates that said romance could be between Hulk and Widow, as the pair can be seen enjoying a tender moment during the Johannesburg-set Hulkbuster sequence. Could the pitter-patter of superhero feet be on the horizon?



It will be emotional



“The biggest thing for me [in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’] is to go deeper with the characters,” the writer-director explained.

“There are new characters, there are more characters, but the troupe I have from the first movie is so amazing that I want to get in their heads, and this movie is letting me do that in a way I couldn’t in the first one.

“Now that people accept the reality where Thor, Iron Man and all these guys hang out, I can now bend that reality. I’ve got Quicksilver and I’ve got Scarlet Witch and they have very different ways of looking at the world, looking at The Avengers and different powers. So that visually and emotionally, we can go to a place that we didn’t have access to the first time.”

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