"Aaron Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen are busy promoting Godzilla, as the King Kaiju prepares to come stomping back to the big screen. During the press rounds for that film, IGN was able to briefly speak with Johnson about his upcoming role as Quicksilver in Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. When asked about the approach the director was taking for the character, and which comics he had been guided towards, the actor mentioned the Ultimate comics as a source of inspiration for the film. Adding that there is a "whole backlog of knowledge" about those characters to dig into.
Johnson also said that he's "looking forward to seeing" his rival Quicksilver, Evan Peters, in action. Peters will of course appear in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past as the character, in what Johnson himself says, "looks to be a very different (take)."
Johnson's Godzilla co-star Elizabeth Olsen will also join him in Age of Ultron as Quicksilver's sister Scarlet Witch. When asked how she’s preparing, the actress said she’s diving deep on the history of this character.
"I wanted to get to know as many of the stories as I could regardless of it being relevant," Olsen said. "So I asked Marvel to just give me a big bible binder of almost every single comic that she's been present in."
Adding, "It's pretty fun reading, because she's pretty awesome."
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