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A powerful being who longs to collect all the Infinity Stones.[2][3][4] On choosing to portray Thanos, Brolin said, "Thanos came along because of my good friend [Marvel Studios co-president] Louis D’Esposito... He called me up and started talking about this thing. It was nice because I could intimately talk to him about it. What I liked. What I didn't like about the whole idea of it… It was really exciting because of the possibilities that it could be come. Not as an idea or as a blockbuster, but just as something different. It’s a character mentality."[5]
Thor's adoptive brother and nemesis based on the deity of the same name.[6]
Production
In June 2013, Robert Downey, Jr. signed on to a third Avengers film, as well as Avengers: Age of Ultron.[7] In July 2014, Feige stated that there are "some notions" to where Marvel would want to take a third Avengers film and that the actors from the previous films are "locked up [with contracts] for Avengers 3". He also said, while no release date has been discussed, the studio was aiming for three years between Avengers: Age of Ultron and a sequel.[8] In October 2014, Marvel announced a two-part sequel to Age of Ultron, titled Avengers: Infinity War. Part 1 is scheduled to be released on May 4, 2018, with Part 2 scheduled for May 3, 2019.[9][4] After the announcement, Feige also talked about the scale of the films and the possibility of the characters from Marvel Television's NetflixDefenders series appearing, saying, "Infinity War is going to be big. There are a lot of people from the movies in Infinity War. A lot of it is about space, and a lot of it is about just what happens between now and then. But all of those things inhabit, however far on the outskirts, the same continuity. So certainly that opportunity exists."[1]
Marvel has been planting the seeds for Infinity War since their early films, introducing various Infinity Stones as mcguffins: the Tesseract / Space Stone in Captain America: The First Avenger; Loki's Scepter / Mind Gem in The Avengers; the Aether / Reality Stone in Thor: The Dark World; and The Orb / Power Stone in Guardians of the Galaxy. The final two stones, the time stone and soul gem will be revealed in the Phase 3 films prior and/or during Infinity War. Additionally, the Infinity Gauntlet is briefly seen in Asgard's vault in Thor.[10]Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and Avengers: Infinity War Part 2 are scheduled to begin filming back to back in late 2015.[11]
Release
Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 is scheduled for release on May 4, 2018.[9][4]
