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Marvel has announced that veteran actor and three-time Emmy award winner James Spader ("Boston Legal", "The Practice") will star in Joss Whedon's "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" as the villain Ultron. Since the character is a humanoid robot, Spader will provide Ultron's voice. The film is still gathering its cast and so far we know that Elizabeth Olsen is in talks to play Scarlet Witch and Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been tapped to star as her brother Quicksilver. Tom Hiddleston has confirmed that Loki will not appear in the Marvel sequel. "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" will open on May 1, 2015. Here is the official press release announcing James Spader's casting:
"James Spader will face off against Earth’s Mightiest Heroes as the villain in Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the sequel to 2012’s record-breaking “Marvel’s The Avengers.” The Emmy Award-winning actor will play Ultron in the Avengers’ much anticipated return to the big screen from writer/director Joss Whedon. The film comes to theaters on May 1, 2015.
Spader earned three Emmy Awards for his role as Alan Shore on “Boston Legal” and “The Practice,” and will return to television this fall in NBC’s highly anticipated series “The Blacklist.” Most recently Spader was seen in the critically-acclaimed film “Lincoln” directed by Steven Spielberg and has previously worked with a long list of accomplished film directors including David Cronenberg, Curtis Hansen, Sidney Lumet, Mike Nichols, Tim Robbins, Robert Rodriguez, Steven Soderbergh, and Oliver Stone. David Mamet also directed Spader in the Broadway play Race.
“Avengers: Age of Ultron” will bring the Marvel Universe’s biggest heroes together again to face one of their biggest villains, with “Marvel’s The Avengers” director Joss Whedon returning to write and direct the sequel. “Marvel’s The Avengers” was released in 2012 and went on to earn $1.5 billion worldwide, making it the third-largest grossing movie of all time.
Spader is represented by ICM Partners and his lawyer Melanie Cook at Ziffren Brittenham."
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