Joe Russo Promises “Psychological Realism” And “Greatest Threat” In AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
The latest from the co-director of Captain America: Civil War, Joe Russo, has the filmmaker discuss he and his brother Anthony Russo's follow-up gig(s), Avengers: Infinity War, and how they plan to unite the Marvel Universe among other things. Check it out after the jump!
However, he first touched on the longtime rumor, or speculation, that Avengers: Infinity War will see Earth’s Mightiest Heroes team-up or cross paths with James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy.
“That is another one that we would have to reserve as a surprise,” said Russo of the team-up. “But we will say this: People will not be disappointed in the amount of characters in the movie. The concept of Avengers: Infinity War is that the Marvel universe unites to battle the greatest threat to the world and universe that you’ve ever seen, and we’re going to honor that concept.”
Joe Russo was then asked if he and his brother, Anthony Russo, have thought about the cosmic nature of Avengers: Infinity War, and how it will differentiate from the Captain America movies. “Yeah, we certainly have,” he replied. “I sat in the theater and watched Empire Strikes Back seven times in a row when I was a kid. Yeah, we're science fiction fans as well, Dungeons and Dragons. We collected all the books when we were kids. We had figurines. Anything that you could think of that has to do with fantasy or sci-fi or superheroes was in our universe. We're just going to approach the cosmic side with the same fervor that we did the earthbound work we've been doing. We also are going to work really hard to bring a psychological realism. We obviously can't bring a naturalism to it because it doesn't really exist outside of science fiction, but we can bring that psychological realism to it, to the characters, and that's going to be our focus.” He continued, “Also, it's going to be our focus to explore the cosmic side, applying the same rules that we like to apply to the last two films that we've done. It ends up being the rules of physics always apply or apply as much as we can get them to apply based on what we're doing.” What do you think?
Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War will be directed by Joe & Anthony Russo, and is set to commence principal photography in October 2016 with Part I opening May 4, 2018, and Part II May 3, 2019.