The Marvel Characters With The Least Screen Time in INFINITY WAR Will Get The Spotlight In AVENGERS 4

If you didn't see your favorite Avenger in the trailer for Avengers: Infinity War don't worry too much because according to director Joe Russo you will see plenty of them in Avengers 4.  In a recent interview with Fandago, Russo talked about how he and his brother balanced all of the characters in the next two Avengers films, drawing on their previous experiences with ensembles:

"You know, we've had a lot of experience balancing ensembles. Our first film 'Welcome to Collinwood' was an ensemble, 'Arrested Development' was an ensemble, 'Community' was an ensemble, 'Happy Endings' was an ensemble. We had a lot of experience working with and telling stories with a lot of characters and making sure that each of those characters was serviced either in an A story, a B story or C story in some regard - either driving the plot, or they're driving their own personal story. It's a lot of hard work and it's part of the reason that we decided to make Avengers 3 and 4, was just the pure level of ambition involved in the movies. It's an unprecedented amount of characters I think in a commercial film.

Joe did put emphasis on the fact that they were able to manage such a large group of characters with help from their writers, Steve McFeely and Christopher Markus:

We've all worked together on all four Marvel movies and they know the Marvel universe as well as anyone. They've, I think, written six or seven films for Marvel. Our job is once we get the story down on paper, we've got a draft and a script that we're happy with, and that has the structure and the plot that we're all happy with, we then start combing through the script from each character's point of view and try to make sure that we understand the story that we're telling with each character. Again, in a movie with 40 characters people are going to have varying degrees of investment in the story. They're either going to be either really high investment or low investment, and high screen time or lower screen time."

And now to address those missing characters from all the Infinity War promotional materials. The Russos kindly explain why some are missing:

"We knew that because we had two films, 'Avengers 3' and '4', that in one movie we could push people to the forefront but then we could pull back in the second film and push other characters to the forefront who had less screen time in the first movie. We did have the opportunity to divide it up that way. So if you feel like one of your favorite characters didn't get enough screen time in Avengers 3, well then wait 'til 'Avengers 4.'"

So will we get more Hawkeye, Ant-Man, The Wasp, Nebula, and even Captain Marvel? It's not clear yet. While one film focuses on villains, will the other focus on the heroes, who knows? But it sounds like the Russos want to give each character an equal opportunity to hold the torch. 

What do you think?