Actor Paul Bettany who provided the voice of Jarvis, Tony Stark’s computer/butler in the Iron Man movies, will now presumably lend his corporeal presence to the role of the Vision in Joss Whedon’s Avengers: The Age of Ultron, which is due in theaters on May 1, 2015.  The first version of the Vision was a Golden Age Simon & Kirby android character who appeared in Marvel Mystery Comics #13 in 1940, but the modern Marvel version who became a member of the Avengers was the creation of writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema, and he made his first appearance in Avengers #57 in 1968.   
 
The inclusion of the Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron and the casting of Bettany are certain to inspire lots of discussion across the Net, since Vision was a synthezoid created by the robot Ultron to strike out at his own creator, Dr. Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man (though Vision rejects his creator and joins the Avengers).  The Hollywood Reporter is already speculating about the "possibility" that Michael Douglas, who plays Hank Pym in the Ant-Man movie that opens just 10 weeks after Age of Ultron, might just make an appearance in Whedon’s Avengers sequel, and wondering if the Jarvis computer operating system might be involved in the creation of the synthezoid Vision.
 
Bettany joins a cast that includes, in addition to all the usual Avengers suspects, Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver, and Thomas Kretschmann as Baron Strucker (see "Geek Movie, TV Round-Up").