‘Kick-Ass’ star will play Quicksilver in next Avengers movie, Scarlet Witch also cast

Marvel has cast two actors to play Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in the next Avengers movie.

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen officially joined the team as the brother-sister duo for Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” to be released May 1, 2015, according to the Marvel website.

This is not the first time Taylor-Johnson has played a Super Hero, he portrayed Kick-Ass/Dave Lizewski in the “Kick-Ass” franchise.

Olsen has starred with Robert DeNiro and Sigourney Weaver in “Red Lights,” and Josh Brolin and Samuel L. Jackson in Spike Lee’s “Oldboy.”

According to Marvel lore,

Quicksilver and Scarlet Wtich, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, were raised by a gypsy couple. The twins soon found they had special talents. When their father went to steel food to feed his family, enraged villagers attacked, Pietro fled with Wanda. The two wandered Europe. By accident Wanda, using her Hex powers caused a fire. Magneto eventually saved them and they joined him and his group. Later the two moved to America to join the Avengers. Now, whether or not this origin story is used for “Avengers: Age of Ultron” is yet to be seen.