Joss Whedon Drops Details on The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron Climax

The Avengers: Age of Ultron hits theaters on May 1, but director Joss Whedon has revealed some details about the climax of the superhero sequel in a recent interview.

Whedon spoke to Yahoo! Movies and talked about how the sequel grew in scope compared to the first movie.

"Avengers: Age of Ultron got larger than the first film," he said. "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. The biggest thing for me [in Age of Ultron] is to go deeper with the characters."

When asked how he would describe the sequel, Whedon said: "To me, adventure film is the best way to put it. Then science fiction, action, western, war, woman’s picture, horror movie...I’m not kidding. Every single one of those things is in there."

The writer and director also discussed the climax of the movie. "You know they’re going to fight Ultron," he said. "You know Ultron has a tendency to build hundreds of Ultrons. So that’s going to lead you in a certain direction, but the hard work of the thing is making sure everyone feels serviced and integrated. So, in the beginning it’s fun. You’re thinking, ‘What would be fun, what would be cool?’ The whole movie is a process of changing everything and keeping everything the same. You want to hit all the things that made people love the first movie, but you also want to make something new or why are you here."

"I don’t want to make The Avengers again. I did that one time," Whedon added. "With the ending it was important for me that we felt a progression. We didn’t just feel, ‘well, no problem, we cleaned that up!’ because that’s an episode of television. That’s not a film. This film, there’s more at stake and we take that seriously."

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