Avengers 3: Everything We Know

Get ready for the most expensive film ever made!

The Marvel Cinematic Universe began in 2008 with Iron Man. Now, almost ten years later, it’s now in PHASE 3. Starting with 2016’s Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange, Phase 3 of the MCU will continue with this year’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Thor: Ragnarok. Then in 2018, come Black Panther, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and 2019, Captain Marvel.

But also coming in 2018 is Avengers: Infinity War, the first of two massive Avengers films that will tie the events of the MCU together with a blockbusting budget of half a billion US dollars! It will be the most expensive film ever made. (Currently that title is held by 2011’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides which had a budget of 300 million dollars.)

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Anyway, here’s everything we know about the world’s most expensive movie coming in 2018.

When does Infinity War start shooting?

Infinity War entered production on January 23, 2017, which means filming is now officially underway.

When is the release date for Infinity War?

Infinity War is set for release on April 27, 2018 in the UK and May 4, 2018 in the USA, and probably in the rest of the world.

Is there a trailer available?

Not yet. But there’s a teaser trailer shown at Marvel’s Phase Three announcement in 2014. It’s composed almost entirely of footage from other Marvel movies. Check it out below.


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What’s the story about? (What does “Infinity War” refer to?)

Directors the Russo Brothers have said that they saw 2016’s Captain America: Civil War as “setting the stage for Infinity War” – and with its crossover cast from multiple Marvel films, it’s something of an Avengers 2.5 between 2015’s Age of Ultron and 2018’s Infinity War.

In Infinity War, a schism developed between the Avengers, leaving them in two groups led by Tony Stark (Iron Man) and Steve Rogers (Captain America) – and vulnerable to a new threat.

Infinity War is presumed to refer to the Infinity Gauntlet, a six-issue comic series published in 1991. The villain of the comics is Thanos, a Titanian mutant-Eternal superhuman and supervillain, who mounts six Infinity Stones on a glove, granting him mastery over Time, Space, Mind, Soul, Reality and Power. Combined, this gives the user Omnipresence, Omniscience and Omnipotence – and in the comics, it’s up to his equally villainous stepdaughter, Nebula, to stop him.

In the film, Thanos will be played by Josh Brolin, and Nebula, a character who appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy, will be played once more by Karen Gillan.

Where have we seen the Infinity Stones before?

There are six Infinity Stones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and so far we’ve seen:

1.The Space Stone (inside the Tesseract from Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor and Avengers Assemble)
2.The Reality Stone (the aether from Thor: The Dark World)
3.The Power Stone (contained in the orb in Guardians Of The Galaxy)
4.The Mind Stone (originally held in Loki’s sceptre, later implanted into Vision’s forehead for safe-keeping in Avengers: Age Of Ultron)
5.The Time Stone (inside the Eye of Agamotto in Doctor Strange)
6.The Soul Stone is expected to be revealed in the third Thor film, Ragnarok, due in October 2017.
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Who will be in Infinity War?

There are reportedly 67 characters in the film!!

That’s a lot. According to IMDb, confirmed cast members so far are:

Benedict Cumberbatch (Dr Strange), Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Vin Diesel (Groot), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Dave Bautista (Drax), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Captain America), Bradley Cooper (Rocket Raccoon), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Paul Rudd (Antman), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Josh Brolin (Thanos), Paul Bettany (Vision), Benedict Wong (Wong), and Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther).

We can’t wait to see this in a year and a half too!

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