Marvel Units James Spader For Ultron Return In Imaginative and prescient Disney+ Collection

Issues are going from “fairly unhealthy, guys” to fairly unhealthy guys over within the lately rejuvenated MCU proper about now! With Robert Downey Jr. set to get his Victor Von Doom on in Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars, Ralph Ineson prepping to play planet eater Galactus in The Implausible 4: First Steps, and different ne’er-do-wells on their means together with the motley crew of Thunderbolts*, Giancarlo Esposito’s Captain America: Courageous New World supervillain Sidewinder, and the titular witch of Agatha All Alongside all on Marvel Studios’ horizon, Kang the Conqueror is however a distant reminiscence already. And now, per THR‘s reporting, we’re getting information {that a} acquainted robotic foe from the MCU’s previous is readying a villainous return. That is proper people — James Spader’s bionic big-bad Ultron is ready to make a comeback in WandaVision‘s as-yet-untitled Imaginative and prescient spin-off collection.

Final seen seemingly being destroyed in 2015’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Spader’s creepy-voiced baddie — the defence-program-gone-awry progeny of 1 Tony Stark — is the man who created Paul Bettany’s android Imaginative and prescient within the first place. And while we do not fairly know simply but how Ultron is coming again, the truth that Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas’ upcoming Imaginative and prescient collection is ready to discover ‘White Imaginative and prescient”s seek for goal in a post-Thanos, post-Wanda world means there’s loads of room for Bettany and Spader’s testy father-son relationship to be examined anew right here.

In keeping with THR‘s reporting, this new Imaginative and prescient collection has been conceived because the third half in a trilogy additionally comprising WandaVision and the imminently dropping Agatha All Alongside, although plot specifics — and any phrase on a possible return for Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff/Scarlett Witch (reportedly it might be on the playing cards) — are being saved firmly underneath wraps at this stage. What we do know nonetheless is that the present is circling an early 2025 shoot in London, Paul Bettany and James Spader are in it, and the collection has bagged itself probably the greatest style showrunners within the enterprise to information it. And for that alone, effectively, you have gotta admire Marvel Studios’ *ahem* Imaginative and prescient.