There Will Be An Insane Amount Of Marvel Characters In The ‘Infinity War’ Films
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As if we didn’t know already, things are about to start getting really crazy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For starters, in just a few short months, we’ll have two of the biggest film franchises in Marvel’s wheelhouse set for a massive collision in the Captain America: Civil War movie. In it, Captain America and Tony Stark assemble opposing teams of superheroes to face off in defense of or opposition to a new superhero registration act. The tone of the film is said to be much darker and violent than any PG Marvel film before it, and it will set off a chain of events that will lead into the Infinity War.
We know that intergalactic bad-guy extraordinaire, Thanos has been traveling the Galaxy collecting the Infinity Stones we’ve seen featured in several Marvel films so far. The use of these Stones, as revealed in Guardians Of The Galaxy, is to assemble them together and form a weapon of unimaginable strength. Whether or not Thanos will be the main villain in the movies or not remains to be seen, but both Infinity War films will be absolutely MASSIVE.
The Russo brothers joked at a recent comic con that they had a storyboard with “like 67 Marvel characters on it.” That sounds insane by itself, but the brothers took to the stage at Wizard World Cleveland to clarify that statement, and confirm there’ll actually be more than that. Joe Russo stated “We have to tell a story and that story has to be built around the characters’ emotional arcs, and we can only have so many of those.”Rather than fleshing out each individual, the film will focus on a handful of characters, and many superheroes will play ancillary roles,” he said.
With that kind of statement, it’s hard to imagine which superheroes WON’T be included in the movie. Also, with such a big, ambitious project, one has to wonder if the Russo brothers worry about Marvel overkill?
What do you think? Is 68 characters too much for a two-part film? Or do you think they’ll find a clever way to make it work? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
