Avengers: Age of Ultron is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to The Avengers (2012). Written and directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, the film features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Sebastian Stan, Paul Bettany, Paul Rudd, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, James Spader, Guy Pearce, Christopher Eccleston, Tim Blake Nelson, Robert Redford, Frank Grillo, Corey Stoll, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jon Favaure, Liv Tyler, Harrison Ford, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings, Stellan Skarsgård, Cobie Smulders, Clark Gregg, Emily VanCamp and Samuel Jackson. In the film, the Avengers fight Ultron —an artificial intelligence created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner who plans to bring about world peace by causing human extinction.
