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Looks like the Avengers sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron, has its next super villain: James Spader will play the coveted role of Ultron!

“BREAKING NEWS: James Spader set to play #Ultron in #Marvel’s @Avengers: #AgeOfUltron!” the Marvel Twitter wrote about the 53-year-old actor, who is set to star in NBC’s new Drama The Blacklist in the Fall.

Ultron was first created in the 1960s in the comics as a robot who developed self-awareness and began to hate his father, becoming a super villain in the process.

The Joss Whedon sequel is set to hit theaters on May 1, 2015.

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Tom Hiddleston has confirmed the news that his beloved villain Loki will not be returning for the upcoming film The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

“He’s not in it,” the 32-year-old actor told Entertainment Weekly. “Here’s the thing: I don’t think there’s anything else Loki could contribute to The Avengers, narratively. Joss [Whedon] gave me so many wonderful things to do in that first film that we’d only be trying to repeat ourselves, and probably less well in the second one.”

“When I think of all the things I loved as a child, for example, Hans Gruber wasn’t in Die Hard 2. And in Indiana Jones, by the time he moved from the Lost Ark to the Temple of Doom, there was a whole new bad guy. I think keeping it fresh and new is good for The Avengers even though it’s a shame for me. And let’s face it, there’s seven or eight of them as it is, and Joss is thinking about adding two more, so the screen’s gonna be a busy place. But I had the time of my life on that film. It was the most fun ever.”

Tom will still return as Loki in the upcoming flick Thor: The Dark World.

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Big news came for Marvel fans at the studio’s panel held during 2013 Comic-Con on Saturday (July 20) – it was revealed that the new Avengers film will be titled Avengers: Age of Ultron!

Director Joss Whedon made a surprise appearance at the end of the panel to reveal the news and showed off a short teaser from the film, due in theaters on May 1, 2015.

In the comic books, there is a storyline that involves the return of the villain Ultron and his conquest of the earth with his Sentinels.

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