The AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Movies Getting New Titles, Are Two Separate Stories

In an interview with Uproxx, Captain America: Civil War directors Anthony and Joe Russo revealed that the titles of their next two movies — the massively-anticipated Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and Part 2 — are actually going to be changed.

I asked the brothers how they decided where to divide the movie – and they said this was a misconception because the two movies are entirely different entities.

“The movies are two very different movies,” answered Joe.

I then asked if it’s misleading having them labeled as “Part 1” and “Part 2”

“It is misleading,” said Anthony.

Joe added, “The intention is we will change it, we just haven’t come up with the titles yet. But, yes, we will change it. And, yes, that is a scoop: we will retitle them.”

The title change is to avoid comparisons to YA adaptations like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and Divergent, which split their final stories into two films in an attempt to squeeze more money out of audiences. The two-part Infinity War isn't going to be the final movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (far from it), and I'm glad to hear confirmation that it won't be one long story that's arbitrarily cut in the middle and leaves the audience hanging.

BirthMoviesDeath spoke to their sources and added the following info to the story:

"...Each film [is] very much its own movie, and that Infinity War I [will] have a definitive, complete ending. No cliffhangers, no 'to be continued.' It [will] be a whole film...

Infinity War I, I understand, is very Thanos heavy, setting up not only the character (which previous films have failed to do) but also getting him the Infinity Stones (which previous films have failed to do). Infinity War II is going to be the big action finale, with just about every Marvel Cinematic Universe hero showing up."

This all corroborates an earlier report about how the two films will feel different from each other, so I'm glad the Russos are still taking that approach and changing the titles to reflect that. The writers of Infinity War have been talking about Thanos a lot recently, and the villain is obviously going to have a huge part to play in these two films. What do you think the new titles will be?