The one movie from the MCU which gets everybody exited is still 3 years away from release: Avengers: Infinity War Part 1. And that is because everything that we have seen in the MCU until now leads to this final stand-off between heroes and villains.
Furthermore, the second part will be the culmination of 21 flicks - so how can one not be excited about this? But what do we know about the Infinity War, besides Thanos being the main baddie and besides the Infinity Gauntlet being his weapon of choice? Well, here is what Kevin Feige and Jeremy Latcham (one of the executive producers) have to say.
2 Infinity Gauntlets
By now, you must have heard that there are 2 Infinity Gauntlets in the MCU. First, there was just a rumor, started by a very attentive fan - the Gauntlet from Odin's vault can be worn on the left hand, while Thanos has one on his right hand at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Kevin Feige confirmed this rumor a while back. But now new information has appeared, concerning the Infinity War. When asked about the location of the last 2 Infinity Stones, he said that they will pop during the Phase III - so he wasn't too revealing in his statement. Nonetheless, he did say again that Thanos is seen with a different gauntlet than the one from Odin's vault.
To which Jeremy Latcham said, "which one do you think is real?" in a way angering Feige. What does this mean? Check out on the next page!
Was Thanos tricked?
While we did know that there were 2 Infinity Gauntlets in the MCU, we didn't actually know that one of them is a fake one, with possibly no power at all. But now it is confirmed - while there are 2 of them, only one can actually hold all the Infinity Stones and harness their power.
Which makes us wonder - which one is the knockoff and what role will it have in the Infinity War?
If Thanos has indeed find the original Gauntlet, then he will indeed become the most powerful being in the MCU. And this makes us wonder what kind of chances the united heroes will have against him. If he indeed has the original gauntlet, then the Infinity War won't last even 10 seconds - each of the 6 stones separately is capable of destroying planets. We cannot even imagine what their combined power is like.
So the only possibility is to have Thanos placing the stones on a fake gauntlet - it will help him during the Infinity War, but not that much"¦ Who tricks him? We believe the answer is in the question - but let's not get ahead of ourselves"¦
Check out on the next page the sources of inspiration for Infinity War!
Infinity War - homework for the Russo Brothers
Whenever a particular storyline is adapted for the big screens, the end result doesn't necessarily resemble the original piece. It has happened very many times until now - with the most bashed movie being Iron Man 3. What sources are the Russo Brothers checking for the Infinity War movies they will direct?
Executive producer Jeremy Latcham gives us an answer: all of them. Every story about the Infinity War is checked by the Russo Brothers. However, he did mention two versions of the storyline. The first one is The Infinity Gauntlet by Jim Starlin and which came out in 1991, while the second one is Infinity by Jonathan Hickman and which came out in 2013.
But the executive producer did say something else too. According to him, no particular Infinity War storyline will prevail against another. The Russo Brothers are just choosing the best moments from each of them, those moments which will make sense in the MCU and which will look good on film.
What kind of moments might these be? Anything goes - though we are not expecting for Death to actually take any part in the movies. If in the comics Thanos dons the gauntlet in order to impress her, we are almost certain that it won't be the case in the MCU.
But how did it all started? Check out on the next page!
The beginning of time
As far as the MCU is concerned, if the Infinity War is the culmination of 3 Phases, where did it all start? We might expect that the first Iron Man film (2008) was the one responsible. It isn't so.
As far as the MCU is concerned, Iron Man was the winning bet which made it all happen. If that one movie wasn't successful, then we wouldn't even have guessed what the future held for us. But Iron Man was much appreciated by both fans and critics alike.
Only afterwards, with Iron Man 2, Kevin Feige started planning the MCU, with the Tesseract being the central piece of the first phase. Furthermore, Feige also said that they don't usually plan everything to perfection - even at this moment, the MCU is just sketched in broad strokes. Of course we know that everything leads to the Infinity War - but what happens until then it is still somewhat of a mystery (Civil War and Doctor Strange aren't that mysterious).
Why do we say this and what importance does it have for the Infinity War? Check out the next page!
It's just the end of a Phase among many to come
A while ago, Steven Spielberg came and said that the superhero genre will fade away just like many other genres before it - his example was the western. Then Zack Snyder came and said that the Marvel flicks are just a trend which will be forgotten, whereas the DC and Warner Bros productions are much more impressive in the ideas they express.
The broad strokes that Feige mentioned means one thing: there is still time to impress, even if we know what happens until the Infinity War arrives. We know that the Avengers roster will change and we even have an idea who will take the place of the old heroes - but surprises can still appear (as it was shown when Spider-Man was announced).
Then we do know that Infinity War is the culmination of 3 Phases - that doesn't mean that it is the end of it all.
In regard to what Spielberg said, Feige replied that, before fading away, the western genre lasted for about 40 years. The modern superhero genre (in which everything is intertwined) has been around for about 10 years (and not even those). Furthermore, Feige also said that the Marvel flicks aren't superhero ones - they are movies of a different genre, sprinkled just with the perfect amount of superhero dust.
As far as Zack Snyder is concerned, Feige chose to be much more diplomatic: “Those are all very different movies. They all happen to be based on Marvel characters and Marvel comics, but from a genre and a cinematic perspective, they’re all very unique. Civil War may as well be a different genre from Age Of Ultron. The way Winter Soldier was a political thriller, I think there is a more emotional and more geopolitical and real world through line through Civil War than there was in the broader Age Of Ultron with the killer AI Tony Stark invention. I think it’s the same thing as saying, ‘I don’t know how many more movies can be made from novels. I think people are going too bored with novels being turned into movies. I don’t know how long it’s going to last.’” (via Comic Book Movie)
Makes sense, right?
