Spader On Age Of Ultron

James Spader has been talking to The Indepenendent about his upcoming role as Ultron in Joss Whedon's Avengers sequel.

"I think it'll be a lot of fun and it's incredibly nostalgic for me," he says.

"When I was a kid my best friend had trunks of comics and I didn't have any so I used to love going for sleepovers at his house. Also I have three sons and two of them have a great interest in comics so they're excited I'm playing the role."
 

Ultron has long been a popular villain in the comics, but it is uncertain how his origin will play out on the big screen. Traditionally, the evil robot is the creation of Hank Pym, but Pym is confirmed to not appear in the Cinematic Marvelverse until a few months after Age Of Ultron is released, with Summer 2015's Ant Man. How Ultron will come to be is one of the movie's biggest mysteries at the moment, although it's probably a fair guess to say that it will be Tony Stark who creates the metal meanie instead (after all, wasn't he just seen experimenting on suits that could operate without him in Iron Man 3?)

Meanwhile, Marvel fans are still waiting to hear who will be playing brother-sister duo (and, for legal reasons, definitely not Magneto's mutant offspring in this canon) Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. It's long been believed that Aaron Taylor-Johnson of Kick-Ass, and Martha Marcy May Marlene's Elizabeth Olsen have done all but sign on the dotted line, but official confirmation is still yet to come.

Avengers: Age Of Ultron releases May 2015, and also stars Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Cobie Smulders and Jeremy Renner.

See the brief teaser shown at the San Diego ComicCon below.