AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Reportedly Removed A 45-Minute Sequence With Thanos Seeking Out The Power Stone

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Reportedly Removed A 45-Minute Sequence With Thanos Seeking Out The Power Stone

Thanos co-creator Jim Starlin has revealed that Marvel Studios cut a lengthy opening sequence from Avengers: Infinity War that saw the Mad Titan acquire the Power Stone from Xandar. Read on for details...

By JoshWilding - Apr 13, 2023 06:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Infinity War
Source: Near Mint Condition

Avengers: Infinity War kicked off with Thanos attacking Thor and Loki's spaceship, allowing the Mad Titan to add the Space Stone to his Infinity Gauntlet alongside the Power Stone. 

We never got to see how he managed to acquire the latter, but know he laid waste to Xandar and the Nova Corps (presumably laying the groundwork for the superhero Nova to debut down the line). Now, the character's co-creator, Jim Starlin, has revealed that a lengthy sequence detailing the battle was actually cut from the 2018 release. 

"About a month before the movie came out, I got an email or something from Joe [Russo] saying, 'The 45 minutes of Thanos that we had at the beginning of Infinity War, we had it cut.' There was a whole sequence of him getting the first gem and they had to cut that out."

"They shot it, but they never wanted to spend the money on the effects and they didn’t want the movie to be as long as the second one was," the writer continued. "They didn’t realize it was going to be quite the hit it was."

Starlin may be exaggerating a tad here, though we know a lot of Thanos content ended up being cut from Avengers: Infinity War. That included his childhood and, based on similar past comments from the Russos, this fight on Xandar. Marvel Studios has never released any of these deleted scenes, though Starlin believes they considered it. 

"I wish they would [release a Director's Cut] too," he said. "They had planned on doing some of that for the DVD and then they didn’t."

Marvel Studios typically keeps scrapped scenes like this tightly locked up within their vaults, and we can't help thinking all this could be pieced together to make a Thanos "Special Presentation" on Disney+ somewhere down the line. 

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GeneralChaos
GeneralChaos - 4/13/2023, 6:20 AM
Finish and release it in theaters. It would put it past Avatar at the box office.
Origame
Origame - 4/13/2023, 6:23 AM
@GeneralChaos - ...what? No. That's not gonna happen with a re-release. The difference between the box office of infinity war and avatar is nearly a billion. No way a re-release is making that much. Especially with the current state of the mcu and the poor reception to the endgame "re-release"
bobevanz
bobevanz - 4/13/2023, 6:36 AM
Hmm I agree they need to use it for Nova, please
ShimmyShimmyYA
ShimmyShimmyYA - 4/13/2023, 6:40 AM
We’ve known this for a while
Fogs
Fogs - 4/13/2023, 6:43 AM
#releasethepowerversion

Jokes aside I'm glad we got the theatrical cut. Felt like all the fat was taken off, was a great edit with all we needed to know.
WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 4/13/2023, 6:46 AM
I actually appreciated that they didn’t show how he got the power stone.
IronDean2099
IronDean2099 - 4/13/2023, 6:47 AM
My theory has always been that the Thanos invasion of Xandar would serve as the opening scene and origin for the new Nova. Like, Romann Dey would be sent off world to recruit someone so the Niva Corps isn't destroyed forever.

Then we cut to some idiot teenager on Long Island.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 4/13/2023, 7:40 AM
Too bad. Would’ve been cool
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 4/13/2023, 7:48 AM
If they did in fact film that scene and the fight on Xandar then they can always just re-release it as a flashback for another cosmic movie to introduce Nova.

Decimated Xandar after Thanos, zoom into a large pile of gravel.
Suddenly a hand punches up through the gravel and out emerges a battered but determined Nova.
As he is searching the galaxy for Thanos suddenly he turns to dust.
Then reappears right away only to learn later that five years had passed.
And in that time a new threat has emerged that he needs to defeat if no other reason to avenge his beloved Xandar.

New threat? Galactus perhaps??

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/nova-is-reportedly-set-to-make-his-long-overdue-marvel-cinematic-universe-debut-in-phase-5--837036280730685864/
Origame
Origame - 4/13/2023, 8:06 AM
I feel it's unnecessary. Especially with the asgardian refugee scene. Just starting off with him beating all the avenger heavy hitters easily is made even more impressive when it's pointed out he beat a pre established army off screen.
philinterrupted
philinterrupted - 4/13/2023, 8:36 AM
If it’s 45 minutes they could release it on Disney+ as a special presentation.
globaltravels
globaltravels - 4/13/2023, 9:07 AM
I reckon everyone is in agreement that they should definitely use what footage they can for the beginning of the NOVA series. Spend some money for the effects and retool it to act as the opening.
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 4/13/2023, 9:15 AM
That could be the opening sequence to a Nova movie.
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/13/2023, 10:04 AM
Just make it a Marvel Special Presentation.
vtopa
vtopa - 4/13/2023, 10:06 AM
Use the footage to start the Rich Rider NOVA movie.
newhire13
newhire13 - 4/13/2023, 10:20 AM
45 minute sequence? Excessive and idiotic 😂Maybe he meant they shot 45 minutes worth of footage for that scene. That makes more sense because then you’d edit what you have down to like the run time of the opening scene. Otherwise, unless it was meant to be a whole separate thing, they wasted time and money shooting something that would have killed the flow of the movie right off the bat.
SummersEssex
SummersEssex - 4/13/2023, 10:44 AM
Would have been cool, but really they had other story issues they needed to change before keeping that in.
HulkisHoly
HulkisHoly - 4/13/2023, 11:10 AM
This might be the first time I’ve seen every comment unanimously agree on a something.

Marvel, make it so (Picard meme)
JonC
JonC - 4/13/2023, 11:31 AM
#ReleaseTheThanosPursuingThePowerStoneCut
Orphix
Orphix - 4/13/2023, 12:08 PM
Shame. Would have been cool to see John C Reilly and Glenn Close make a return.
KaioKen
KaioKen - 4/13/2023, 6:55 PM
I miss thanos.

The golden age is over.
kylo0607
kylo0607 - 4/14/2023, 6:25 PM
@KaioKen - Same.

Ever since Endgame, MCU has had a lot of misses and nothing has been able to get me hyped even remotely.

I shall never forget the IW & EG hype and the fact that those 2 films actually met it.
solskulldeath
solskulldeath - 4/14/2023, 9:24 AM
#ReleaseTheThanosCut
Rrr7930
Rrr7930 - 4/14/2023, 12:22 PM
So a month before movie release it was cut?? I doubt it. We would of seen snippets in the first two trailers. Which came out months before movie release and when they decided to cut it.
JonC
JonC - 4/14/2023, 1:12 PM
@Rrr7930 - it would have been a heavy CGI sequence, which is done last minute on these films so they likely had nothing to show other than actors again green screens and wearing spandex.
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