UPDATE: Vision Glimpse in New 'Age of Ultron' Poster; Joss Whedon Teases James Bond-Style Opening

UPDATE, FEB. 24: Marvel is teasing fans again and this time it’s not just an Ant-Man sized trailer. The studio has unveiled a new poster for Avengers: Age of Ultron above. In addition to the movie’s motley crew of crime-fighters in the forefront (and some flying robots descending on them from the heavens), we can also just barely make out the profile of Vision, who is obscured by sunlight sneaking through the clouds. The yellow cape all but assures it’s him, though. Check out a closeup below:

Marvel has so far kept details scarce on Vision, who will be played by former voice of JARVIS Paul Bettany, though a few glimpses of the mysterious android have snuck out. —Kevin Polowy

ORIGINAL STORY, PUBLISHED FEB. 23: The new James Bond movie hits theaters in November, but fans will evidently get a nice taste of 007 when Avengers: Age of Ultron hits the big screen on May 1.

Joss Whedon, the Marvel mastermind and Ultron's writer-director, toldEmpire Magazine that the sequel to his massive 2012 box-office hit would open with “a pre-credit Bondian blow-out.”

Captain American and Thor in Age of Ultron

"The opening location is really stunning," he said. "There was a moment where there were soldiers and different kinds of people fighting them, and these guys in winter camo come up on a castle in one of those mountain resort elevators that goes side-to-side and looks like a gumball machine, and I was looking at the Italian Alps and the mist and the castle, and this weird thing rises up, full of soldiers in winter camo, and everybody was like… [sings the Bond theme].”

Hell, it sounds a lot like the upcoming Bond film SPECTRE, at least according to the first photo we saw from the next super-spy adventure.

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Whedon also compared Ultron with several other pretty respectable films, including Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and The Godfather Part II, the latter of which he called a “huge touchstone” for him while making his sequel.

"You get everything you got from the first Godfather movie in a very different movie, in a movie that structurally couldn’t be more different, and thematically and in intent and in mood, and yet nobody ever goes, ‘It wasn’t Godfathery enough,’” he explained.

And he also admitted that he has taken heat for tweaking the origin story of Ultron. In the Marvel comics, it was Hank Pym, the alter ego of Ant-Man, who created the killer android. In the film, Ultron is the product of the “Science Bros,” Tony Stark and Bruce Banner.

“Of all the heat I’ve ever taken, not having Hank Pym was one of the bigger things. But the fact of the matter was, Edgar [Wright, who was initially developing the Ant-Man film] had him first and by virtue of what Edgar was doing, there was no way for me to use him in this.”

He also noted that since Stark and Banner were established characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe “it didn’t make sense to introduce a third scientist, a third sciencetician” to the mix.

For more from Whedon, click over to Empire Magazine.

Watch the trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron below:

Photo credits: Marvel/Disney