“Avengers: Infinity War” comes out in theaters on Apr. 27, 2018. The film is the 19th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and is the sequel to both “The Avengers” (2012) and “Avengers: Age of Ultron” (2015). Several actors and actresses from previous MCU movies will reprise their roles in this film, which is the culmination of a 10 year plot that started with “Iron Man” in 2008.
An announcement back in 2014 revealed that the project was originally titled “Avengers: Infinity War – Part 1” as it was supposed to expand to another film. However, in July 2016, Marvel chopped off the ending and started referring to it as just “Avengers: Infinity War.”
The decision was made to erase the confusion within the fanbase that the movie will be a single story broken into two parts, which Kevin Feige, the producer, rebukes by saying that “it’s going to be two distinct movies.”
The film is directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, who directed previous MCU films “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and “Captain America: Civil War.” They will return for the untitled sequel to “Infinity War,” which is slated for a tentative release on May 3, 2019.
The screenplay is written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The score is composed by Alan Silvestri, who also did the score for “The Avengers” and will return to do so for the next part of “Infinity War.” He began composing the movie’s score in January 2018.
As of now, the plotline is set four years after “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and the Avengers have since broken up after the events of “Captain America: Civil War.”
Thanos, the main antagonist, arrives to collect items known as Infinity Stones in order to power a gauntlet that will allow him to bend reality. Five of the six Infinity Stones have been introduced in previous Marvel movies, each having tremendous power on their own.
They include the Space Stone, which is held inside the Tesseract from the first Avengers film, the Mind Stone, contained by Vision, the Reality Stone, in possession of The Collector, the Power Stone, from “Guardians of the Galaxy” and the Time Stone, owned and used by Doctor Strange. The Soul Stone is the final stone, which is speculated to be the most powerful of the stones, but hasn’t appeared in any MCU films yet.
The Avengers reunite and are joined by the Guardians of the Galaxy along with several others. Guest starring heroes such as Black Panther, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, and their supporting casts will help form a star studded cast of over 30 actors and actresses in this film.
The film follows Thanos’s quest to gather the stones for his gauntlet and The Avengers attempts to stop him.
Anthony Russo, one of the directors, stated that “Infinity War” is inspired by 1990’s heist films as Thanos goes “on a smash-and-grab, and everybody’s trying to catch up the whole movie.”
Filming began in early 2017 and mostly concluded on July. 14 of the same year. Later in July the other director, Joe Russo, stated there were unfinished scenes at that point that would be completed in the following months.
The marketing helped bolster the energy for the film as, due to two convention presentations, over 90,000 conversations cropped up on social media between July. 17-23, falling just behind “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Justice League.” By Oct. 16, the total amount of social media conversation generated surrounding the film rose all the way to 679,000.
Following the release of the movie’s trailer, it broke 230 million views within its 24 hours online, surpassing the record “It” had set during the time period.
In Dec. 2017, Fandango held a survey that indicated that “Infinity War” was going to be 2018’s most anticipated film. Early box office projections as of March. 2018 show that the film should gross $200-235 million during its opening weekend in the United States and Canada and between $490-590 million for its total domestic gross.
“Avengers: Infinity War” is the first part of the culmination of the Infinity Stones story arc, which began with the first Iron Man film in 2008.
Each subsequent film has had ties to the previous installments and laid groundwork for the next titles in the series. This was a practice that was fairly new, and inspired many other Cinematic Universes, such as the DC Comics Multiverse, and the Universal Monsterverse.
Erika Brandenburg
Staff Writer