VISION: New Report Leads To Further Speculation About James Spader Playing A "Human" Ultron

VISION: New Report Leads To Further Speculation About James Spader Playing A "Human" Ultron

There's already been some speculation about Avengers: Age of Ultron star James Spader playing a "human" version of Ultron in Marvel Television's Vision series and a new report adds fuel to the fire...

By JoshWilding - Sep 08, 2024 04:09 PM EST
Filed Under: WandaVision
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Last month, we learned that Avengers: Age of Ultron star James Spader will reprise his role as Ultron in Marvel Studios and Disney+'s upcoming Vision series.

At the time, Deadline mentioned that "[Spader's] role in Vision may not be voiceover, we hear." As a result of that statement, speculation soon started running rampant about Spader perhaps playing Ultron in his "human" form, similar to what happened on the page when he merged with Hank Pym.

In The Avengers sequel, Spader suited up to play Ultron with motion capture so we wondered if the report may be referencing that. Now, though, The Hollywood Reporter has added further fuel to the fire. 

"Spader is reprising his role as Ultron, a sentient being created by Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, to act as a defense program but that instead turned against humanity, as seen in the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron," the site's report about Todd Stashwick joining the cast notes. "Ultron then had a hand in the creation of Vision, his 'son,' so to speak. It’s unclear whether Ultron will be returning as a robot or in human form."

This sort of uncertainty from the Hollywood trades suggests they've been hearing conflicting information, especially as you'd think it would be a given that Spader would simply be playing the villainous android the same way he did in 2015. 

We never really saw Ultron die at his son's hands and Spider-Man: Homecoming strongly hinted that he may still be active when Peter Parker came across the glowing head of one of his drones. 

The Vision series is expected to adapt elements from the Tom King comic book run which saw the Avenger create a robotic family for himself, only for his new perfect life to go horribly wrong. Perhaps the emotionless White Vision will resurrect his dear old dad without understanding the consequences of unleashing Ultron on the world again? 

What If...? showed us what the villain is capable of - one of his Variants was a Multiverse-level threat - so we'll be interested to see where things go from here. 

When Vision was first announced, Jac Schaeffer was expected to be heavily involved. Since then, the WandaVision and Agatha All Along showrunner has moved on and Star Trek: Picard season 3's Terry Matalas is calling the shots.

Paul Bettany will lead the cast, while Stashwick is said to be playing an "assassin who is on the trail of android and the technology he possesses." We've also heard that Elizabeth Olsen could return to the MCU as Vision's "wife," Virginia. 

Work is ramping up on Vision, though the series doesn't currently have a confirmed premiere date.

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McMurdo
McMurdo - 9/8/2024, 4:47 PM
I have faith in this solely because of Terry Matalas.
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 9/8/2024, 4:59 PM
I like spader and welcome seeing him. Just don't give me a shitty plot device please. Because off hand, I can't think of a reason to have his actual form appear on screen
dragon316
dragon316 - 9/9/2024, 3:38 AM
@ProfessorWhy - all comic plots are same with different characters villian want rule world kill/ everyone lives in univers / planet .,
If this no part what if series ultron is back in different form ultron will be back where he left off where got killed at doing same thing end of age of ultron
EZBeast
EZBeast - 9/8/2024, 5:06 PM
The cheaper route!
Izaizaiza
Izaizaiza - 9/8/2024, 5:16 PM
Spader's involvement in the project has doubled my interest in it 🤞🏼
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/8/2024, 5:18 PM
Huh , interesting…

One of my theories has been that he will either be somehow ingrained in Vision and now that the character had been rebooted that it allowed him to active aswell thus it will be a mental fight for control of the body…

The other one is that he as able to backup himself to a secluded location just before Vision seemingly destroyed his final body and now that he doesn’t have a physical form has anonymously hired Todd Stashwick’s recently revealed assassin/mercenary character to retrieve Vision so he can transfer his consciousness in him.

If we do get a human Ultron , I wonder if he’ll just look like James Spader somehow or someone else (part of me feels like this could have been the ideal way to bring RDJ back rather then Doom but oh well).

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Drace24
Drace24 - 9/8/2024, 5:33 PM
Maybe a Synthozoid Ultron rather than a human one.
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 9/8/2024, 5:39 PM
While this could potentially be lame, I do feel that we should go back to the normalization of TV not having cinematic production values and don't need an all-CGI main antagonist, as long as the writing is strong enough.
dragon316
dragon316 - 9/9/2024, 3:42 AM
@FinnishDude - good writing doesn’t mean it be good it depends on other factors in movies that we don’t know about we don’t work in Hollywood we don’t know what makes it good all we know is what diffenrt interests each person likes with entertainment they make for people watch some like she hulk others don’t
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 9/8/2024, 6:04 PM
just recast him as Bishop
Comicmoviejunki
Comicmoviejunki - 9/8/2024, 6:10 PM
GTFOH!!!!
MotherGooseUPus
MotherGooseUPus - 9/8/2024, 6:28 PM
What If is by No Means gooood butttt... Infinity Ultron was f*cking awesome and I absolutely 100% want to see that or something similar in live action. Give me that Lord Fiege. Please and Thank you
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 9/8/2024, 6:38 PM
Am I the only one that is completely puzzled by them having Wanda make her own family and now having vision… make his own family. I get that it happed in the comics but was it really right after the other? I liked Wanda vision until the ending (never liked Agatha as the villain or whatever she was). Who knows maybe it’ll land well
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/8/2024, 8:38 PM
@NonPlayerC - the Vision family thing is just a rumor for now and likely not true
Cleander
Cleander - 9/8/2024, 6:59 PM
Ultron can be a hologram.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 9/8/2024, 8:25 PM
James Spader will appear as himself and the budget will still be $300 million.
Mrtoke
Mrtoke - 9/8/2024, 8:44 PM
anddddd, it's gone
LSHF
LSHF - 9/8/2024, 9:16 PM
Either way is fine with me.

I'll be happy to see James in the MCU again.
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 9/8/2024, 9:53 PM
Human form? I know you lying...
SATW42
SATW42 - 9/8/2024, 10:21 PM
I think a more accurate wording would be to say “humanoid” form as opposed to human form. I know it’s a nitpick, but even if he’s just James spader, he’s still ultron, a non human. No one said vision was in “human form” in WandaVision or infinity war.
RitoRevolto
RitoRevolto - 9/8/2024, 11:08 PM
Human Ultron sounds so uninteresting...
S8R8M
S8R8M - 9/9/2024, 5:52 AM
I always felt that Vision let that last Ultron go at the end of Avengers 2
tRuckRogers46A
tRuckRogers46A - 9/9/2024, 9:05 AM
What if in the Vision show, we get Vision creating robotic/synthezoid versions of his kids, his wife AND his 'Dad'?
MrDandy
MrDandy - 9/9/2024, 10:26 AM
I’m all for this idea
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 9/9/2024, 10:59 AM
I’ll be disappointed if he’s only a cameo.
I think he did well as Ultron.
PC04
PC04 - 9/9/2024, 12:22 PM
STILL hoping for a proper Ultron return. I loved Spader in the role.

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