UPDATE: Is That Vision in the New 'Age of Ultron' Footage?
UPDATE: We didn’t notice something important yesterday in that new footage from the ABC Marvel special, but the hawk-eyed folks at ComicBook.com did: During a battle scene from Avengers: Age of Ultron, they spied a brief flash of someone over the Scarlet Witch’s shoulder who looks very much like Vision, the mysterious android played by Paul Bettany in the movie.
A screen shot of the figure over the Scarlet Witch’s shoulder
Compare that flash of a gray, smooth-headed figure with red markings with this concept art released during Comic-Con and you’ll see the similarities:
Bettany, who’s long voiced Tony Stark’s digital sidekick JARVIS in the Iron Man movies, will finally make a physical appearance in a Marvel movie for Age of Ultron. Fans have been eager to see what he looks like, but Vision was the one major element missing from the first trailer. Mark Ruffalo told Cinemablend that he was gloating a little bit over Bettany’s intense make-up regimen for the movie. “All I know is that I’m happy that I walk in and I leave the trailer, and I can go back an hour later and Paul Bettany’s still in make-up,” Ruffalo said, although he had high praise for Bettany’s performance. ”You should see him. He’s like a specimen when he walks onto that thing. And he’s like the perfect man. He’s the Vision.”
ORIGINAL STORY: Ant-Man has begun its slow crawl to the big screen.
A first look at the Peyton Reed-directed Marvel film was unveiled on Tuesday night during the broadcast of ABC’s Marvel: 75 Years, From Pulp to Pop!, a smorgasbord of corporate synergy and fan service. Paul Rudd plays Scott Lang, who transforms into the titular diminutive superhero; Michael Douglas plays Lang’s mentor (and original Ant-Man) Dr. Hank Pym.
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By far, the biggest revelation in the new footage is Douglas’s amazing beard, a hairy wonder rivaled only by the sculpted pompadour he wore in the HBO Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra.
Ant-Man is due out on July 17, 2015.
Photo credit: @Disney/Marvel
