AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Directors Describe The Sequel As A Heist Movie; Promise Lots Of Surprise Characters

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Directors Describe The Sequel As A Heist Movie; Promise Lots Of Surprise Characters

During a new interview, Joe and Anthony Russo discuss their plans for Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War, and the directors reveal that they plan on delivering an MCU entry in the vein of a heist movie...

By MarkCassidy - Nov 01, 2017 06:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Infinity War
Though Marvel Studios movies are often accused of being a little formulaic, from time to time they do attempt to subvert the genre, and that's exactly what Joe and Anthony Russo intend to do with Avengers: Infinity War.

While speaking to Cnet.com about their plans for the third Avengers flick, The Russos revealed that the plot would owe a lot to that of a heist movie, with Thanos doing his utmost to secure all of the Infinity Stones. They also reiterate a previous tidbit that The Mad Titan will be portrayed as one of the lead characters.


"With "Infinity War," the biggest new element to the movie is Thanos and the fact that he's entering the storytelling in a very bold, strong way, to the degree that he's almost one of the leads. We've shaped an interesting narrative around him that in some ways leans heavily on a heist film in the fact that he's going after the infinity stones in a much bolder, successful way than he has in the past.

The entire movie has that energy of the bad guy being one step ahead of the heroes. We looked at a lot of movies that had that heist-style energy to them, [and] that brought some inspiration."

We already know that Infinity War will feature pretty much every main character in The MCU, but it sounds like we're also going to see a few heroes and villains that we won't have been expecting.

"There's going to be a lot of unexpected characters. There are more surprises packed into this film than any of the others. Part of that is character interactions, new interesting characters, characters that have made small appearances that are really getting fleshed out in this film. A lot of people enjoy the experience, so I don't want to give anything away, but certainly you can expect lots of surprises."

This could mean we'll see established characters that haven't been confirmed to return yet, or the introduction of some brand new players, or both - we'll have to wait until Avengers: Infinity War hits theatres next year to find out.
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Scarilian
Scarilian - 11/1/2017, 6:19 PM
"he's going after the infinity stones in a much bolder, successful way than he has in the past"

How can you be more successful at getting the Infinity Stones... When he got all of them in the past (comics). Unless they are on about him previously trying to get all the Infinity Stones in the MCU - which could be a hint towards why/how the Infinity Gauntlet exists and also a nod towards us potentially seeing it's creator to explain Thor's hammer in the concept art.

"The entire movie has that energy of the bad guy being one step ahead of the heroes."

This is good to hear, I like the idea of the heroes being outmatched and it's definitely needed in the Avenger series. Other than Loki's army (very briefly) we haven't really got the sense of them being outmatched by a villain. We need another moment where the heroes are getting beaten down before they team-up to take down Thanos in an intelligent and interesting way.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/1/2017, 6:21 PM
JohnCena
JohnCena - 11/1/2017, 6:26 PM
@BlackBeltJones - More like

"I'll bring her home by 10, then I'll take your wife and show her why Peggy wouldn't [frick] me... My dick is huge! That's why. Oh and my bisexual bf Bucky has a metal arm. Do with that what you will."

GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/1/2017, 6:33 PM
@JohnCena -

Is that you Steve


Get over here


LOL
NotoriousWolf23
NotoriousWolf23 - 11/1/2017, 7:14 PM
@BlackBeltJones - lmfao
Kumkani
Kumkani - 11/2/2017, 2:42 AM
@BlackBeltJones - Now THAT'S character development lol
Kman
Kman - 11/1/2017, 6:22 PM
So my take from this is the movie will center around Thanos collecting the stones, most likely ending with him having the gauntlet and [frick]ing shit up
lemric
lemric - 11/1/2017, 6:27 PM
@Kman - it sounds kind of like a combination of thanos quest and hickman's Infinity
SageMode
SageMode - 11/1/2017, 7:11 PM
@Kman - Feige said in a previous interview that Thanos will in fact be the main character of INFINITY WAR
NOVAtheSUPA
NOVAtheSUPA - 11/1/2017, 9:51 PM
@SageMode - i love that idea so cool that we follow the villain instead of the heroes
BigDriggs
BigDriggs - 11/1/2017, 10:10 PM
@NOVAtheSUPA - same here. I was hoping they'd do a film where thanks was the main character just snatching up the stones, with the heroes playing secondary roles. Glad to see it seems like they're taking up this concept
pepe
pepe - 11/1/2017, 11:16 PM
@BigDriggs - .... You are welcome
NOVAtheSUPA
NOVAtheSUPA - 11/2/2017, 5:13 AM
@BigDriggs - is it bad that i like thanos more then most of the heroes :( thanos is just written so well usually i would have loved to see him and deadpool look for death on the big screen
SageMode
SageMode - 11/2/2017, 7:25 AM
@NOVAtheSUPA -

“Thanos in Infinity War is — in a movie that has a lot of characters, you could almost go so far as to say he is the main character, and that’s a bit of a departure from what we’ve done before, but that was appropriate for a movie called Infinity War,”

- Kevin Feige in an interview with Collider
bigdannymac
bigdannymac - 11/1/2017, 6:22 PM
Neat!
JohnCena
JohnCena - 11/1/2017, 6:23 PM
We now know who is going to be the main character and the team leader and the hottest Avenger in Infinity War.


ANewPope
ANewPope - 11/1/2017, 6:23 PM
The Russos for every MCU movie going forward plz (after Black Panther & Captain Marvel)
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 11/1/2017, 8:09 PM
@ANewPope - Disney scientists have abandoned their research on reviving cryogenically frozen heads from the 60's and begun researching ways to clone (in the words of Bob Iger) "a buttload of new Russos".
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 11/1/2017, 6:25 PM
Well this first film will be all about Thanos getting the gems

Second film, our heroes defeat Thanos by some convoluted bullshit.
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