It was just last week that Kevin Feige was explaining how Marvel movies were all the same but kinda different, too. There’s no doubt that their formula works, and even this week’s “Thor: Ragnarok” — which refreshingly breaks the mold — still has a few rules its required to play by. But conversation about Marvel’s template filmmaking won’t end soon as some new details emerge about next summer’s “Avengers: Infinity War.”
Without a trailer or still image in sight, there’s still plenty of mystery about Marvel’s highly anticipated blockbuster. However, it looks like it’ll the Russos, who declared the influence of ’70s conspiracy thrillers on “Captain America: Civil War,” are now plucking from another genre for ‘Infinity War.’
“With ‘Infinity War,’ the biggest new element to the movie is Thanos and the fact that he’s entering the storytelling in a very bold, strong way, to the degree that he’s almost one of the leads. We’ve shaped an interesting narrative around him that in some ways leans heavily on a heist film in the fact that he’s going after the infinity stones in a much bolder, successful way than he has in the past,” Anthony Russo told Cnet. “The entire movie has that energy of the bad guy being one step ahead of the heroes. We looked at a lot of movies that had that heist-style energy to them, [and] that brought some inspiration.”
So, it looks like it’s not quite a straight-up heist movie like “Ant-Man,” but runs with that spirit, and adds a villainous twist. So, is the basic storyline that Thanos steals the Infinity Stones, threatens the world, forcing the Avengers to come together and fight him? It’s not an outlandish suggestion.
We’ll see when “Avengers: Infinity War” opens on May 4, 2018. [via io9]