There’s a lot of confidence in the casting report from Latino Review tonight announcing Aaron Johnson has landed the role as Quicksilver in Joss Whedon‘s The Avengers: Age of Ultron alongside Elizabeth Olsen as Quicksilver’s twin sister, Scarlet Witch.
Now, I don’t read comics so I don’t know how this works, but apparently there is a crossover between the Avengers and X-Men universes where Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch become members of Magneto’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. To this point, the character will appear in Bryan Singer‘s X-Men: Days of Future Past, played by Evan Peters. So it would seem the two characters won’t be crossing studio lines for an even larger comic collaboration.
Johnson recently spoke with Total Film about the character saying:
There’s years — over 50 years — of backstory on him all there to use, and I like doing that. Him and his sister [Scarlet Witch] have been abandoned by their parents and their father, and they grew up in Eastern Europe defending and looking out for themselves and each other. His sister really is his guidance — emotionally she’s the one who looks after him, and vice versa. He’s very overprotective physically — he doesn’t want anyone touching her. He has real anger frustration — I like that. I always thought it’d be quite funny if you saw him eating loads and people asked him why and he’d explain it’s because he’s burning so much energy all the time. Or ideas that you’d see him come back round — but he’s already nipped out and got his lunch somewhere else. He just got bored — his attention span is so fucking quick.
While we should probably take this report as rumor until officially confirmed by the studio, the confidence from Latino Review and that interview quote certainly would seem to suggest he’s got the role.
The Avengers: Age of Ultron hits theaters on May 1, 2015.
