The Role of Thanos' Black Order in AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Explained By Joe Russo
Not too long ago it was announced that four of Thanos' evil children would appear in Avengers: Infinity War. These characters will make up the MCU version of the Black Order. Those characters included Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Corvus Glave, and Proxima Midnight.
In a recent interview with Joe Russo, the director explained why he and his brother Anthony wanted to throw these characters into the mix. As you might expect, they will serve as the henchmen who battle The Avengers.
"We get inspired by a lot of different material when we’re working on the movie. We pulled from both Infinity runs for this, and look, there are a scary bunch of characters who I happen to think, when I read the Infinity run, were super cool. And when I got the opportunity to make this movie, I said I have to do the Black Order. You know, we have so many characters and Thanos needs to be teased out. You can’t have the characters challenging him every step of the way. There has to be characters that they have to go through to get to him. The Black Order is the perfect cast of characters to do that with."
There was a member of the Black Order that was left out of the film. That character is Supergiant. When asked why not all of the Black Order members were used in the movie, Russo explained that all the characters have different powers to fit the storyline they came up with and he says it makes things cooler.
"We are dealing with so many characters that we made some choices along the way. Consolidation seemed like a smart thing to my brother and I because they were starting to overlap each other. And frankly, when you see the movie you’ll understand, it services the storytelling. The power meld in and frankly, we’re altering their powers to things that I felt were in better service of our storytelling. But also things that I think are cooler and things that I want to see, and again, as a comic book fan, as I read a book, I have my own ideas about what I would do with those characters, the same way that a writer would, the way any writer would when he takes on Spider-Man or Captain America. Everyone brings their own spin to it. So we brought our own spin to the Black Order."
If these characters better service the story, then you won't hear any complaints from me. The movie is already said to have 62 characters so not adding a couple more isn't going to be a big deal.
Regardless, Avengers: Infinity War is easily going to be the most epic Marvel movie to date. If you happen to be at Comic-Con to see the footage Marvel shared, you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't seen it, you'll just have to trust the reaction of 7000 fans.
Source: SHH