The Marvel Studios panel at SDCC brought on some interesting information and a continuation of the smartest thing that I think they’ve done when it comes to marketing their movies in that other than the Iron Man films, they’re giving them actual names rather than just more and more numbers, which becomes far too easy to mock. With new logos provided for Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, we also got the new logo for the Avengers sequel, which was presented early on by Joss Whedon as he stepped in to run a few quotes and then pull out to an image of Ultron’s helmet. The 2015 feature will be called Avengers: Age Of Ultron when it hits.
It’s unlikely that it will use a lot of material from the recent comic storyline, but there are elements from it that can be used and you can see how it would launch a Phase 3 film with Ant-Man:
During the Age of Ultron storyline, Ultron has returned and conquers the world while slowly remolding it into his image. His Ultron Sentinels are guarding the streets looking for any fugitives. Hawkeye runs into the Ultron Sentinels as he was rescuing the Superior Spider-Man yet manages to destroy the Ultron Sentinels present. It is later revealed that Ultron is actually in the future and has been using Vision as a conduit to punish humanity. While one strike team travels into the future to fight Ultron, Wolverine and Invisible Woman go back in time to kill Pym before he can create Ultron in the first place. This results in a world where Tony Stark controls an army of robotic drones and that Morgan le Fay has conquered half of the world. Travelling back in time once more, Wolverine succeeds in stopping himself from killing Pym, and he, Pym and Susan Storm come up with a different plan. This plan results in a different outcome of the prior confrontation between the Avengers and the Intelligencia; a ‘back door’ installed into Ultron at his original creation allows Hank Pym and Iron Man to destroy the robot, instead, averting the events that led to the ‘Age of Ultron’.
At least this removes Thanos as the threat in this film and allows that character to be dealt with elsewhere, if at all, since Kevin Feige has said before he really wants to build out the space side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and keeping him out there with whatever expansion occurs there is probably for the best.
