Kevin Feige On Balancing Cosmic And Tech-Based Bits In THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

THOR TDW was amazing, can't wait for Age Of Ultron!!

@Pasto - Congrats on coming out of the closet! We'll sort off I guess......

im so excited for the future of marvel studios,regardless of what people thought of iron man 3 or thor the dark world,i really enjoyed them,i thought their strengths outweighed their weaknesses for me, they were not my favorite of the 4 released this year,that goes to the wolverine, i prefered iron man 3 over thor the dark world because i thought it had a little more meat to it,for the lack of a better term,i hope cap 2 and guardians(especially) are good or even great,i am gonna go in their with no expectations and judge the films on their own merits

I see Pasto with this type of hair.

Knocturnalzen-he is promoting his movie and he must have done all of these interviews around the same time and they are now getting released, he in a podcast i listened said ,he works with the directors and writers on preproduction but he steps in and out, during production he leaves it up to the director to go them space to do what they have to do but he will check up on them and psotproduction ,he is always there during the editing process etc.

GD it!! I wish they'd hurry up with that baldness cure!!

WTF!!!

One of the infinity stones will provide Ultron with a "mind" of his own. Hint hint. There will be more to him than just rogue A.I.

I think pretty much Ultron is going to get the armor from destroyer, making him pretty tough for Thor to take down.

I think all the heroes will have something to do with Ultron's creation, not just Tony

@Humby: I like that. Hoping that is the direction they go.

LOL I never too Pasto as a Ginger but giddy up!

maybe this one

Jesus, I can see this is gonna be a [frick]er of a thread.

First up, I asked Taylor about the reshoots and while he was very clear to say they were not “reshoots,” but “additional photography,” he gave some insight into the Marvel process:

It’s my experience with the Marvel process they save a portion of the budget for this and what we were basically doing. A lot of it was getting more Loki stuff, because we realized how successful he was in the movie, so we sort of “Loki-ed it up” a little bit.

So what scenes specifically?

Well there’s a scene that we probably shouldn’t identify too much, that’s one of the funniest scenes in the movie where Loki’s a shapeshifter. That was a very, very late addition. And there’s a connective thing at the beginning that bridges from The Avengers story to sort of explain how Loki is in prison or why he is in prison. That was a very, very late addition. That was probably “more Loki is a good thing,” but also we decided it was an expositional link that was needed for the audience. So those are two examples of Loki stuff.

After the prologue, that bridge scene is the first scene in the movie. You see Loki before you see Thor.



Taylor also spoke up about the Whedon thing and how it’s a normal part of the Marvel process:

Also, with the Marvel process, at least with my experience with this one, is the script is in flux not up until you shoot; it’s in flux while you are shooting. I got into trouble for saying Joss Whedon had come in and rewritten some scenes we were shooting and I stand by it, it was great. He came in. He’s a genius. He fixed the scene and left, but the rewriting process continues through post as far as they were concerned. That takes some getting used to. It wasn’t a negative process, it was just a different process. Coming from TV, the writer is god, and you have a script and that’s what you do. In this one the script is like the last thing. I think we worked out the script right before we locked picture.

So, again, which scenes did Whedon write?

The thing he was brought in to help with was not a comedy scene, it was an emotional scene between Thor and Jane. I think he also did a pass with one of my favorite scenes, Thor and Loki talking in the Asgardian skiff at night when the brothers actually have time together to talk. That was one of my favorite scenes and I think he had a pass on that.

Later, I asked Tom Hiddleston about the additions and he both confirmed Taylor’s examples were the only two, and spoke about shooting them:

[The bridge scene and morphing] were the only scenes [added], yeah. What does it do, adding scenes? It’s interesting, because I had actually always wanted there to be that scene with Odin. I remember saying when I first got the draft of the script, “Shouldn’t he have a scene with Odin where you see them lock horns one more time?” So I was very glad to do that and I think it makes more sense of the references to Odin all the way through the film.

And the morphing scene was just so fun. It was just adding more mischief, more playfulness to the character. His charm is so much of the character and is a facet I love to play. I suppose the challenge of adding stuff later is just trying to capture the same psychological and emotional continuity, because there were many months between… Of course when you’re shooting, that’s when you’re focused solely on that particular job and then once you wrap you go off and get distracted by other things, other projects in your life. So it’s having the discipline to shift back into the right gear, but it was worth it.

So, when you see Thor: The Dark World later this week, those are three particular scenes to be on the look out for. The first scene after the title, which is a bridge from The Avengers. That was a late addition. A Loki morphing scene, also a late addition with a Whedon touch. And an emotional scene on a skiff between Loki and Thor, which Whedon wrote.

I GOT THIS FROM SLASHFILM AND ITS ABOUT THE THOR ADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY THEY DID AND WHAT SCENES JOSS WORKED ON!!

Iron-Lego 3 is pure shit.

[frick] that Mandarim twist. I didn't mind at all about that.

The problem of the film was the edition in all fight sequences that didn't allowed us to see the actual fights scenes clearly.

The problem was that in any instant we believe that those threats could really affect the hero and, consequentially, the narrative never offers any degree of tension.

And of course...

The most ANNOYING KID OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE.

I definitely think the Destroyer is going to play a part in Ultron's creation. In Avengers we saw they were making weapons based on it. As for the other ingredients in the Ultron stew, I see some interesting theories above but I think we'll be able to see it all coming. At this point I'm looking forward to the next Captain America and Guardians of the Galaxy.

@joe - I look good ;)

I doubt they'll just be one version of Ultron, there will be probably be different models to specifically deal with The Avengers, A Destroyer model for Thor, A Hulkbuster model for Hulk, a tech savy and arc reactor powered model for Iron Man etc, The Ultron figurehead, which will presumably have Spader's face will be comprised of all of these "upgrades" at the end but start out as weak and "evolve" with each new upgrade that is tested as the film progresses.

It's kinda annoying that Marvel dismisses the magical element of the Thor world,the realms,weapons,creatures,etc.
Saying it's another form of science is weak..how will they explain Dr.Strange & his abilities & such?
Oh,it's not magic its..SHUT UP ASSWIPE!..it's magic!!