Marvel Comics has sent out a press release stating that James Spader will be playing the robot villain Ultron in the Avengers Sequel the Age of Ultron. Spader best known for his role in Boston Legal is the first official casting announcement for Joss Whedon's follow up film. Here is the official press release.
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.
Source: Marvel.Com
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