Avengers: Infinity War directors and cast on what to expect from epic Marvel throwdown
From the eagerly awaited first meeting between Iron Man and Dr Strange to Thor’s cool new weapon, here’s what the people of Avengers: Infinity War have to reveal about the new film
Avengers: Infinity War has more Marvel superheroes in it than you can throw a mystical hammer at, and audience members should prepare to navigate just as many emotions. That is according to Joe Russo, who directed Infinity War – the 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – with brother Anthony.
“You’re paying for a ticket to go see a film – for some people, it might cost up to US$20. You want to be able to laugh and cry, feel happy and sad, get angry, be inspired. A movie should do all of those things,” he says. “We like the movie to reflect the world they’re living in as much as possible, and we’re in a complicated world right now, so it’s complicated storytelling.”
The third Avengers movie – which the Russo brothers filmed back-to-back with the fourth, out May 3, 2019 – pits invading cosmic villain Thanos (Josh Brolin) against the original Avengers including Iron Man (Robert Downey Jnr), Captain America (Chris Evans) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth), as well as newer do-gooders such as Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), Spider-Man (Tom Holland) and Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman).
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“It is so bananas,” Downey says. “Hunter S. Thompson could not have come up with a more deliciously oddball and strangely meaningful set of circumstances than these characters all wind up in.”
Whether you’ve seen all the Marvel films so far or are still catching up, here’s what you need to know going into Infinity War:
The Avengers are still broken up (for now)