+ At least Star-Lord will be involved in "Infinity War," tying in the cosmic side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the main story.
"The movies are intended to be a culmination of everything that's happened before in the MCU so you don't want to get into spoilers but I'm a big fan of what ['Guardians of the Galaxy' director] James Gunn has done,"said Anthony Russo. "
[Joe Russo and I] are both big fans of what James Gunn has done. Star-Lord is a fantastic character and Chris Pratt is an awesome performer so you'd be very excited."+ And something about Thor:
"I'm excited to work with Thor," said Joe Russo.
"They're doing some really interesting stuff with 'Ragnarok' and where he's gonna be at the beginning of Infinity War is gonna be a very interesting place and I think very profound. I think he's gonna have a real emotional motivation after that."+ Anthony Russo says that both parts of Infinity War will feel like very different movies:
"The movies are very very different from one another. It’s not a part one and part two scenario, necessarily. They’re just two different expressions. I think it creates a misconception that we’re shooting them at the same time. For us there’s a through line from Winter Soldier, through Civil War, right to Infinity War. In our mind, the storytelling arc moves that way."+ Christopher Markus (screenwriter) talked about working on the Infinity War script while on set for Civil War and it sounds like him and Feely were just two kids in a candy store: "
We sent in literally 60 pages of unrelated ideas. Just like ‘Here’s some stuff that could happen in this insane movie.’ Then we came back from Atlanta and everyone had a copy of that [document] and they’d circle this, ‘This is cool, this is insane, this is cool, we’re not allowed to do that,’ and from there we’ve pieced it together very slowly. We’re in the middle of it now."+ Collider recently spoke with screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and this is a little bit of what they said:
STEPHEN MCFEELY: We got back from Atlanta after spending all of our off-time in Atlanta brainstorming, and then got back to Atlanta and spent the last four months of the year in a room, sometimes with the Russo Brothers, and almost always Jeremy Latcham, who was on all of the Avengers movies, and Nate Moore, who was our guy on Winter Soldier and Civil War, and just brainstorm, brainstorm, brainstorm. It looks like a serial killer’s lair with all of the cards and stuff on the walls.
CHRISTOPHER MARKUS: And gradually it begins to take shape, and gradually one thing becomes a story. Now how we can we surprise people? People know the villain. People know the stones and stuff, so it is a little more known than the other movies we’ve done.
MCFEELY: We’re starting a little less from scratch.
MARKUS: But then what do you do with all of that? How much acid are we expecting the audience to take?
MCFEELY: But just how Winter Soldier is not Winter Soldier, and Civil War is not Civil War. They’re not direct interpretations. We take the best ingredients and make a different little meal out it.
MARKUS: This is weird, what we’re writing now. It will be less weird a year from now or two years from now because the audience will have seen a few different things.
MCFEELY: In the vaguest possible way we have no limits. Limits come with budget and schedule and people going “That’s a bridge too far,” but at the moment anything we have the rights to is possible, and that’s the appeal of this project and the MCU is we can pluck as needed from the comics and from the movies. Like William Hurt—we need someone who represents the government and has a grudge against superheroes and we need this character anyway. Oh! It’s one of the greatest actors in history! Let’s get him!
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