Russos Clarify 67 Characters In AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Comment And Talk 'Spider-Man'
As expected, people really did take Joe and Anthony Russo's comments about there being 67 characters in Infinity War a little too literally, and as well as clarifying that and further teasing that epic two parter, the filmmakers also weigh in on Captain America: Civil War...
Even though we've yet to see so much as a single official image of the wall-crawler in Captain America: Civil War, him joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe is by far one of the most excting things about the movie. Joe and Anthony Russo actually took part in a Q&A after a special screening of The Winter Soldier last night, and Collider quoted them as saying the following about bringing Spider-Man into this world. It definitely sounds like his role in this first Phase 3 release will be a significant one anyway, especially as they clearly wanted Peter Parker in it from the start.
"It was a very long process. Kind of thing we had to lobby for for months. What happens during a long process like that, you’re continuing to develop the movie and the character. During the time that it takes you to convince the powers that be to make the jump and let you do that, you’ve engrained the character so deeply into the story at that point that you’d have to destroy the story to take him out. So, by the time we found out that he’d be in the movie, it wasn’t so much elation than like ‘Thank God! We don’t have to blow the whole movie up.'"
"I’m a comic book fan and collector, since I was a kid, and he’s my favorite character. And to get a chance to reinvent that character…For me, I really wanted to see somebody cast who was very close to a high schooler’s age…What was so valuable to me about the character, when I was a kid, is that he’s a high schooler with this power and responsibility, and it makes him very distinct as a hero. It makes him distinct from the other characters in the Marvel Universe, who are confident, experienced superheroes. It’s super important to have that color of the movie, and we felt that it was invaluable and we do think it goes a long way. That character helps us balance out the tone of the movie."
As for their widely reported comments about there being as many as 67 characters in Avengers: Infinity War, The Russos clarified that fans took that figure a little too literally, but were quick to point out that the two-part movie is still going to be huge with a lot of characters factoring into this finale. They also offered some insight into just how large a production it's expected to be:
"We were being figurative when we said [67 characters] and people took it as literal but there’s a lot of characters. Infinity War is meant to be the culmination of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe up to that point. It’s very ambitious in its scope, it wants to take everythign that you’ve seen before and coalesce into some kinda of climactic ending. It’s complicated , ambitious storytelling…We’re not talking about lead characters, just people that make an appearance."
"We start shooting both of them later this year in November and we’re primarily going to be based in Atlanta again. That’s where we’ll do out stage work and some exteriors. There will be locations from around the world involved as well. We actually relocate to Atlanta in late July to finish up pre-production there. We don’t come back to L.A. until the following June."
"We’re shooting them concurrently, meaning that some days we’ll be shooting the first movie and some days we’ll be shooting the second movie. Just jumping back and forth. We won’t look like this next year."
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