'Avengers: Age of Ultron' DVD release date & updates: deleted scenes will feature Thor; arrives on Blu-Ray this Oct. 2

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Marvel has released a tidbit from the "Avengers: Age of Ultron" film in the form of a deleted scene featuring Chris Hemsworth's Thor and Stellan Skarsgård's Dr. Erik Selvig, Entertainment Weekly reports. The two-minute clip shows the two in the Norn Cave, where they seek answers on how to defeat Ultron.

"The thing I fear contains the thing I need," Thor muses before downing a liquid that will give him courage. The next scene shows an exchange between the two, but with Thor possessed, shedding light on one of the Infinity Stones.

"The stone draws you all to its brilliance and you to your end," Thor said.

Thor also said of the Mind Stone, which was once in Loki's possession, "It was never his. It is of the six. The Infinite Six cannot be joined nor kept apart. The Mind Stone that rules perception, it molds the minds amongst it. It carved out your will, Erik, and still you don't see?"

Watch the deleted scene below.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Joss Whedon admitted that he and the studio executives had debated on whether or not this scene should have made it into the film. The director said that notes from the studio led to this scene being cut out, until the editors convinced them that at least some of these scenes had to be in the final cut.

In April, Vulture reported that Joe and Anthony Russo will be taking over Whedon's role as director for the succeeding Avengers films. Whedon admitted to Vulture, "This was the hardest work I've ever done, and at some point, when it's that hard, you just feel like you've lost."

Vulture reports that Whedon's cut of Age of Ultron was nearly 3.5 hours long, and he and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige trimmed it down to 142 minutes.

Whedon said, "There's one or two things that I'm unhappy about not having in there, but they're small."

He also spoke of Age of Ultron, saying, "[It] is an odd film in some ways. We went to some strange places in this one, and making that work and making it flow and making it all feel like it's part of the same movie was difficult."

Nonetheless, Whedon is thankful for how the Avengers catapulted someone like him, who was previously best known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, to international directorial stardom. He said, "To do something that is as personal as this movie is—on that budget, for a studio that needs a summer tentpole—is an extraordinary privilege."

Avengers: Age of Ultron is currently available on digital HD and will be released in DVD and Blu-ray formats come Oct. 2.