Avengers 2: Age of Ultron Release Date is May 1; Cast and Trailer News; Plot and Other Spoilers!

By Kara Michelle Aug 13, 2014 07:04 AM EDT

Avengers 2: Age of Ultron release date is May 1, 2015, as announced by Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, in 2D and in IMAX 3D.

Avengers: Age of Ultron, the sequel to 2012's "Marvel's The Avengers," will push earth's mightiest superheroes to the brink of their limits. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, director and writer Joss Whedon said, "With the first 'Avengers,' everybody pretty much had the power to punch somebody. And now we have a woman who can get inside your head and move objects, and a boy who can move faster than anything, and a robot who can replicate and is out of his mind. So all of a sudden, it's a darker, weirder, tougher world that they're living in."

The woman who can get inside people's head and move objects with her will is Scarlet Witch (played by Elizabeth Olsen) while the boy who can move faster than anything is her fraternal twin Quicksilver (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson). The crazy robot who can replicate is the Ultron (played by James Spader) in the movie's title and who ironically was created by Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.) himself to help out in restoring peace and order following the destruction of S.H.I.E.L.D. as a result of the mayhem witnessed in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier."

In a talk with Empire, Whedon further describes his own film version of Marvel's comic book Ultron. He said, "I'm having a blast with Ultron. He's not a creature of logic - he's a robot who's genuinely disturbed. We're finding out what makes him menacing and at the same time endearing and funny and strange and unexpected, and everything a robot never is."

Whedon's Ultron, to complete his team of baddies, creates the Vision, a solar-powered synthetic humanoid who can fly, discharge energy beams and alter his body's density. Interestingly, the Vision will be played by Paul Bethany who was the voice actor behind JARVIS, Tony Starks' own AI assistant in "Iron Man 3."

But what is Ultron's agenda? In a sequence of the film, according to Screen Rant, Ultron during his own launching party, told the members of the Avengers, "I know you're good people. I know you mean well...but you just didn't think it through...There is only one path to peace...your extermination."

However, in the Avengers 2: Age of Ultron footage shown at the San Diego Comic-Con, there was a slightly different version to the introduction of Ultron and what he wants done. According to Cinema Blend, the Avengers were having some friendly discussion at the Avengers Tower as to who can lift Thor's hammer. All but the Black Widow tried but they all failed to even budge Mjolnir. Asked why, Thor's answer was, "You're all not worthy." Everyone was smiling at the simple answer until Ultron steps in and interjects, "Worthy? How could you be worthy? You're all killers. You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change. There's only one path to peace. Your extinction."

Aside from Downey, it's already confirmed that Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Cris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson to return and reprise their original roles as Thor, Hulk, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Nick Fury, respectively.

Despite what's already been uploaded and being watched at the social media sites, Cinema Blend found out from Marvel President Kevin Feige that an official trailer or footage for Joss Whedon's The Avengers: Age of Ultron wouldn't be coming to theaters or the Internet until "later, much later."