Thanos Will Be Introduced in AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR in a Huge Way
Thanos has been teased in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since The Avengers. We know the Mad Titan is coming, and he will unleash hell when Avengers: Infinity War finally rolls around. Marvel has been leading up to his story arc and when he finally comes into play as a main villain in a movie, the studio is going to make he makes an impression. Screen Crush recently had the opportunity to talk to Civil War screenwriter Christopher Markus, and this is what he had to say about what we can expect from the character in Infinity War:
“We don’t get an element of surprise. Everyone knows he’s coming, and yet he hasn’t had terribly many scenes that have illuminated very much about him.”
As you might expect, a large part of Infinity War Part 1 will be devoted to introducing Thanos in a huge way. He goes on to say:
“You can count on a lot of scenes where we illuminate a lot about him very early.”
As far as the MCU goes, there’s still not much known about Thanos. He’s just lurking in the shadows pulling some strings, so it's going to be awesome to see how Marvel actually plans on handling this character when he’s in full-on action mode. Screenwriter Stephen McFeely said:
“We still have to take it on a character-by-character basis. The challenge is hanging on to character as motivation when you blow the canvas up to the entire universe. And not to make it seem like all your people look like tiny little video game characters running around.”
Markus added:
“It’s just trying to balance character moments in the middle of big, crazy Jim Starlin [creator of the “Infinity Gauntlet” comic series] action.”
Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 will be released on May 4th, 2018, and I can’t even being to imagine what Marvel and the creative team for this film are actually going to deliver. It's hard to think how they will be able to top what they accomplished in Civil War.