Marvel's Avengers: The Ultron Imperative (Earth-113599)

Marvel's Avengers: The Ultron Imperative is a 2015 live-action superhero team up film produced by Touchstone Pictures and Marvel Studios. It is the fifteenth installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the direct sequel to The Avengers. It also serves as the culmination for the events that took place during all the sequel films that debuted during Phase 2. It was released worldwide May 1st 2015.

Production
Development for a sequel to the Avengers occurred almost instantly after the first movie was released and proceeded to brake box office records worldwide. Kevin Feige had confessed he had ideas for Phase 2 to be structured similar to Phase 1, with each individual superhero film leading up to a big budget Avengers team up movie. However, nothing was set in stone until Marvel Studios had proven to Touchstone their model of storytelling was truly profitable. It was announced during Comic Con 2012 that Joss Whedon would not be returning to direct the sequel as his contract only had him for one film and Marvel didn't express interest in renewing it. Desiring for each Avengers installment to have a different director in order to keep creative diversity. In December 2012, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that Justin Lin had to be hired to helm the Avengers sequel.

In early 2013, Justin Lin began pre-production on the Avengers film and announced that the main villain was going to be the notorious Ultron. At Comic Con 2013, the title The Ultron Imperative was confirmed with the story being a loose adaptation of the comic story by the same name. Lin also made it clear that he was worked closely with the Directors and writers of the other Phase 2 films to try and make a cohesive story that continues each Avengers in their own important arcs. It was also revealed in Comic Con that year Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson would be reprising their roles as Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver from Deadpool to explore the character's history part of the Avengers ensemble. Many fans believed that Thanos would be the villain of the Avengers sequel and they would crossover with the Guardians of the Galaxy to fight him. Kevin Feige made it clear in the rumors they have plans for Thanos and the Guardians down the line, but as of right now they want to keep the MCU grounded and Earth based.

By 2014 filming began and James Spader was confirmed to be cast in the main villainous role. Later that year, the rights to Spider-Man were purchased back by Marvel Studios from Columbia Pictures and despite the Ultron Imperative being deep into post production, Lin and Marvel wanted him to make a cameo in the film. They managed to cast Tom Holland as Peter Parker merely a month before its slated release date and managed filmed one scene with him in it and add it in at the last minute.

Avengers: The Ultron Imperative was released worldwide May 1st 2015.

Cast

 * Robert Downey Jr. as Anthony "Tony" Stark/Iron Man


 * Chris Evans as Steven "Steve" Rogers/Captain America


 * Chris Hemsworth as Thor


 * Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Hulk


 * Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow


 * Jeremy Renner as Clinton "Clint" Barton/Hawkeye


 * James Spader as Ultron (Voice)


 * Paul Bettany as J.A.R.V.I.S./Vision


 * Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch


 * Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver


 * Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon


 * Angie Harmon as Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk


 * Don Cheadle as James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War-Machine


 * Cobie Smulders as Director Maria Hill


 * Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia "Pepper" Potts


 * Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury


 * Thomas Kretschmann as Heinrich Zemo


 * Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue


 * Tom Holland as Peter Parker (Cameo)

Plot
The film starts in the Avengers Tower laboratory. Tony Stark with tinkering on a large Satellite with the word Ultron imprinted onto it. He asks J.A.R.V.I.S. to power it up and see if it works, Ultron at first begins to boot up normally as Tony stares in amazement and pride until the Satellite randomly begins to suffer extreme glitching before shutting down and catching fire. J.A.R.V.I.S. quickly puts it out with fire extinguishers around the lab. Insisting that the Artificial Intelligence code he plugged in was too corrupted for the machine is adequately process. He shouts back that he knows, it's only the five hundredth time it's happened. Tony sits down disappointed at his failure and says he needs the Heart of Knowledge to figure this out. J.A.R.V.I.S. suggests that perhaps to lighten his spirits he should consider that task he keeps delaying on his calendar. Stark takes a deep breath and tells him why not, it's not like the universe could be that cruel and kick him in the nuts twice in one day.

Tony walks out of the lab to see Pepper Potts on her laptop and gets on one knee, telling her that it he doesn't do this now he might not ever. He pulls out an expensive diamond 24 gold carat ring and asks Pepper if she'll marry him. Potts respond with a happy yes graciously accepting his ring.

It then shows a sea red molten metal which slowly begins to form the title AVENGERS: THE ULTRON IMPERATIVE.

Months later, in the black forest of Germany, the Avengers are working in unison to raid a high tech Hydra Workshop. Hawkeye is able to shoot a dozen impressive tricks shots before commenting that these guys aren't pushovers, he actually has to use his good arrows on them. Thor responds saying this has to be the where Henrich Zemo is hiding, committing unfathomable experiments on human test subjects. It's sickening. Captain America comments that it's an old refurbished Nazi base he raided back in World War II, he then proceeds to throw the Motorcycle he was riding on in mid drive blowing up an entire platoon of Hydra soldiers, saying he hates nostalgia.