Paul Bettany is the Vision for Avengers 2

Paul Bettany has been cast to play the superhero character named Vision for the upcoming highly anticipated Marvel blockbuster sequel "The Avengers: Age of Ultron". Bettany has already been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since its inception with 2008’s Iron Man. The actor is the voice of J.A.R.V.I.S., Tony Stark’s personalized computer system. This pretty much makes sense because the character of Vision is that he is an android, artificial intelligence. In the comics, he was created by Ultron, and was initially a villain, until he was convinced by the Avengers to turn against Ultron, and then he later eventually became a member of the Avengers. But of course, the movie would not necessarily adapt each and every detail of the comics' origin story.

Many had previously speculated that Clark Gregg’s Agent Coulson would fill this role following his death in the first Avengers, but that obviously didn’t come to pass as he’s alive and well on ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [hit the jump to continue]


In and around the geek analyzers' corners of the internet, it was initially wondered if the movie-version Ultron would actually turn out to be a scorned J.A.R.V.I.S. in the Avengers sequel, but that rumor was negated when James Spader was officially chosen to play the character.

From the looks of it, Vision would probably be the result of an evolution of J.A.R.V.I.S. whether that would be out of Tony Stark's intention or (as it could follow the tone of the comics) be initially out of Ultron's doing, it's pretty exciting speculating about how the storyline would turn out! The Avengers: Age of Ultron opens in theaters on May 1, 2015.