Joss Whedon has issued a pre-emptive warning-cum-apology, stating to EW that there will be no 'post-credits sting' on The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Which is to say, if you sit watching the film's eight minute scroll of names running up the screen you won't be rewarded for your efforts. But you will have at least shown some respect to the people who worked hard to make the movie you just enjoyed. There will, Kevin Feige clarified, be a scene in the middle of the credits, which he compared to an 'epilogue.' In the original Avengers, you will recall, this mid-credits scene was used for the big tease, and the post-credits scene was used for the big joke. And so it was, until now. Perhaps it's a healthy move. Maybe Marvel will get out of the post-credits scene game altogether. The cleaning staff at cinemas will probably be happy about that, having to kill less time before they can come in and do their stuff. The same article, incidentally, addresses recent rumours that Julie Delpy and Linda Cardellini are in the film. One of them, it is implied, is playing a ballet teacher of the young Natasha Romanoff. Which one seems to be cleared up by a list of characters that have leaked from a Hungarian language dubbing session. According to that, which you can read at Comic Book Movie, Delpy is playing Madame B, which sounds like a ballet mistress to me, and Cardellini is none other than Laura Barton, who in the comics is Hawkaye's girlfriend, later wife. And if you really want to know if Thanos is in the film, the same list reveals the not entirely surprising answer. Age of Ultron dawns on April 23rd in the UK and May 1st in the US. Good times ahead for all.
Brendon Connelly has been a film writer since the early 90s, with time on the staff of Orbit Magazine, Slashfilm, Bleeding Cool, Den of Geek and many more. He's a long time teacher of film studies and practical filmmaking classes, and has directed music videos, commercials, short films and more. His favourite film is Terry Gilliam's Brazil, his favourite food is pancakes or crepes, and he tries to live his life by the teachings of Kermit the Frog.
