The new James Bond movie hits theaters in November, but fans will evidently get a nice taste of 007 when Avengers: Age of Ultron hits the big screen on May 1.
Joss Whedon, the Marvel mastermind and Ultron's writer-director, told Empire Magazine that the sequel to his massive 2012 box office hit would open with “a pre-credit Bondian blow-out.
”"The opening location is really stunning," he said. "There was a moment where there were soldiers and different kinds of people fighting them, and these guys in winter camo come up on a castle in one of those mountain resort elevators that goes side-to-side and looks like a gumball machine, and I was looking at the Italian Alps and the mist and the castle, and this weird thing rises up, full of soldiers in winter camo, and everybody was like… [sings the Bond theme].”
Hell, it sounds a lot like the upcoming Bond film Spectre, at least according to the first photo we saw from the next super-spy adventure.
Whedon also compared Ultron with several other pretty respectable films, including Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and The Godfather Part II, the latter of which he called a “huge touchstone” for him while making his sequel.
"You get everything you got from the first Godfather movie in a very different movie, in a movie that structurally couldn’t be more different, and thematically and in intent and in mood, and yet nobody ever goes, ‘It wasn’t Godfathery enough,’” he explained.