Marvel’sInfinity Waris already considered one of the most highly-anticipated movies of the year, and as fans await the next trailer dropping tomorrow,directors Anthony and Joe Russoshed new light on this blockbuster-to-be. When the movie was first announced at a Marvel press event in October 2014, which laid out the entire Marvel Phase 3 slate, it was revealed that the third and fourthAvengersmovies will beAvengers: Infinity War - Part 1andAvengers: Infinity War - Part 2, but that was later changed, with the first movie now titledAvengers: Infinity Warand theAvengers 4title yet to be revealed. During an interview on the set ofAvengers: Infinity War, The Russos revealed why the project shifted from a two-part story to being two completely separate movies. Here’s what Joe Russo had to say, revealing thatAvengers 4is more of a sequel toAvengers: Infinity War, as opposed to being the second part of the same story.
“It’s simply the same thing in the way thatThe Winter Soldierrelates toCivil War' and the way thatCivil Warrelates toInfinity War. These two movies will also relate, there’s anarrative threadthat is connecting these films, but at the same time, there’s an independence in terms of what the experience is or where the story goes. It isn’t a true two-parter, and I think the two-parter concept came back when Marvel decided they were going to culminate the MCU, it was going to be a two-movie deal. But as we developed the movie, in execution, it ended up being more of two singular expressions.”
Joe Russo also comparedAvengers: Infinity WarandAvengers 4to the two movies that started the trend ofsplitting the final movie in half,Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The decision to split that massive novel into two movies started a brief trend of splitting the final novel of franchise finales in half that was used by theTwilight,Hunger Gamesand other franchise. Joe Russo added that this is much different than theHarry Potterstories, which was a “distinctive story” told over a set amount of movies, while this type of story has to keep evolving, teasingAvengers: Infinity WarandAvengers 4will have different heroes at the forefront of each story.
“We always try to make each film different so they don’t get repetitive. This kind ofserialized storytelling, outside ofHarry Potterwhich was a distinctive story that was told over that eight movies, you have to keep evolving. You have to keep evolving who’s at the forefront, how you’re laying the story out, because I think rigor mortis will set in very quickly. So for us, we absolutely are very, very particular about who carried the ball on this movie, and who will carry it on this movie because each character represents a different theme, each character has different wants, and that can shape and color and re-tone an entire film depending on who you’re following. Especially in stories this big.”
Many are stillwondering what the official titleforAvengers 4will be, and since it has been confirmed that theAvengers 4title is in fact a huge spoiler forAvengers: Infinity War, it’s possible that theAvengers 4title will be revealed during the end credits ofAvengers: Infinity War. Regardless,Avengers: Infinity Waris expected to get the summer movie season off to a big start, although Marvel made some surprising headlines when it unexpectedly moved the release date from its traditional spot of the first weekend in May (May 4), the unofficial start of the summer movie season, to the last weekend in April (April 27), long considered to be one of the weakest box office weekends, until now. The Russo’s revealed these new details during an on-set interview withComing Soon.
