Kevin Feige Talks Infinity War Buildup
With the arrival of Civil War in May came the true birth of Marvel’s Phase 3 in regards to their cinematic universe. All of which will culminate in a massive war against Thanos in third Avengers film: Infinity War. Head of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige talked with IGN about the build towards the massive event, noting that what came with Phase 1 isn’t still true now with the advancement of the universe.
“When Tony Stark and Stark Industries and the world of that first movie was the definition of the Cinematic Universe, the question was how do you bring a soldier from World War 2 into that in a way that makes sense, how do you bring a Norse god from a whole other planet into that in a way that makes sense, how do you introduce flying aircraft carriers into that? That was the challenge. Now — particularly after Avengers, after Guardians, after this movie — the sky’s the limit with where we go,”
He also notes how the originally planned two parts of Infinity War are now more self contained to help keep the story flowing and focused:
“There’s a reason we have publicly called the first one ‘Infinity War’ and the second one ‘Untitled,’ because the movies we were developing were not — certainly there’s a connection, there are with all our movies — but it’s not a first part and a second part. It’s a whole movie and a whole story, and then a whole movie and a whole story. That’s about all I can say,” Feige said. “It’s certainly inspired by everything that has come before and everything that is hinted at before.”
Though despite all off this, he still promises massive battles, and a whole slew of characters filling up the two films.
“We will be intercutting a lot of stories in that movie in a lot of different locales, as it sort of is in the Avengers movies as well; who is facing off against who. In this movie, it’s going to be fun to mix that up. One of the things that’s great about the Infinity Gauntlet is everybody tried to go up against Thanos whether they were god-like powers or not, because that’s what Avengers do,” said Feige. “The fun about those two movies that we’re doing essentially at the same time is everybody’s there.”
Infinity War begins in 2018.