Infinity War The Avengers: Infinity War Part I & II The Official News and Speculation Thread

[DyeLorean]

It would be nice to see the Avengers go to Asgard for some reason, with a comfortable Thor and the rest all outsiders, for once.
I remember an episode of the Spider-Man animated series from the Secret Wars, where they all go to another dimension. I liked that sense of discovery, of being in unknown territory which is one of the things, I think, they should do with the team. Take them out of their comfort zone and play around that idea.

 

[MbJ]

We're talking two movies. The cast is far less bloated when you consider the time that has to be filled.

The other thing is that Infinity Gauntlet as a story is pretty decompressed. It fits a mini-series format mostly because it's so stretched out. Most of the action only happens in the latter half, while most of the beginning is just the heroes standing around talking.

That doesn't really work for a movie unless you have one entire film of the Avengers standing around babbling about how they plan to stop Thanos and then Part 2 is just the actual fight. And even then, the fight in the comic is very decompressed by virtue of there being a bunch of monologuing and talking. In the actual film, you're not going to make a two hour fight scene against one guy that magically manages to be entertaining the entire time.

 

[DyeLorean]

"Avengers: Infinity War - Part I and Part II will have a combined production budget of ONE BILLION DOLLARS"

That can't be right.

 

[TeeKay]

"Avengers: Infinity War - Part I and Part II will have a combined production budget of ONE BILLION DOLLARS"

That can't be right.

Woah.

 

[TalismanRing]

"Avengers: Infinity War - Part I and Part II will have a combined production budget of ONE BILLION DOLLARS"

That can't be right.

Considering that they combine shooting schedules to make filming cheaper than doing two separate movies then no it's certainly not right.

 

[Sleiek]

"Avengers: Infinity War - Part I and Part II will have a combined production budget of ONE BILLION DOLLARS"

That can't be right.

Yeah.. no.

 

[Son of Coul]

Seems very unlikely and impractical, given their otherwise practical scheduling & planning.

 

[Sleiek]

How about the Hobbit trilogy, didn't they have a combined budget of 300m to 500m dollars? I remember it was somewhere in between.

Unless RDJ asks for a 100m+ salary, I don't see it happening.

 

[Silvermoon]

"Avengers: Infinity War - Part I and Part II will have a combined production budget of ONE BILLION DOLLARS"

That can't be right.

The original source on that is Bleeding Cool and comes from the same author who 'claimed' that Disney/Marvel perceived Age of Ultron's $1.4 billion box office as a failure. Who, if the talk is to believed, that the reorganization made his 'sources' not as knowledgable on the film side of things. Who claims that Feige was responsible for extensive/expensive reshoots on Age of Ultron that could have been avoided if only he had only listened to the Creative Committee (which doesn't make sense as I doubt Disney would have let Feige disband the Committee if listening to them could have saved money - plus why would Disney give Feige more control if he some responsibility in AOU's supposed 'failure').

Anywho. Will the IW films be expensive? Yeah, quite probably. Will it be *that* expensive ($500 mil per film)? I doubt it. I'd take any figures thrown around (especially by BC and especially by this author) and how those figures supposedly 'break down' worth a grain of salt (if that). I mean in terms of the cast - their contract is their contract and most of them are still on their first contract. With RDJ, yes he's probably going to make a lot of money off of the IW films - but most of that will be from the deal he has that gives him a percentage of the backend/the revenue. It won't come out of the production budget.

That's my take on this

 

[Iceman]

Sure the production budget will be huge but $500m per film is crazy!

 

[Kermit_The_Frog]

"Avengers: Infinity War - Part I and Part II will have a combined production budget of ONE BILLION DOLLARS"

But seriously though, that's a lot of money.

 

[liesse00]

Slashfilm posted this today. Check out Feige's death glare to Latcham at 4:08 when he asks a reporter which of the two MCU gauntlets he thinks is "the real one":

Is there a part 1 video?

 

[Son of Coul]

Yup, both can be seen here: http://www.slashfilm.com/kevin-feige-avengers-event/

 

[liesse00]

Yup, both can be seen here: http://www.slashfilm.com/kevin-feige-avengers-event/

Much obliged

 

[doink]

The original source on that is Bleeding Cool and comes from the same author who 'claimed' that Disney/Marvel perceived Age of Ultron's $1.4 billion box office as a failure. Who, if the talk is to believed, that the reorganization made his 'sources' not as knowledgable on the film side of things. Who claims that Feige was responsible for extensive/expensive reshoots on Age of Ultron that could have been avoided if only he had only listened to the Creative Committee (which doesn't make sense as I doubt Disney would have let Feige disband the Committee if listening to them could have saved money - plus why would Disney give Feige more control if he some responsibility in AOU's supposed 'failure').

Anywho. Will the IW films be expensive? Yeah, quite probably. Will it be *that* expensive ($500 mil per film)? I doubt it. I'd take any figures thrown around (especially by BC and especially by this author) and how those figures supposedly 'break down' worth a grain of salt (if that). I mean in terms of the cast - their contract is their contract and most of them are still on their first contract. With RDJ, yes he's probably going to make a lot of money off of the IW films - but most of that will be from the deal he has that gives him a percentage of the backend/the revenue. It won't come out of the production budget.

That's my take on this

Yeah, I don't believe that rumor at all...it's more likely that the BC guy or his 'sources' heard $500 mil and assumed that was the per-film budget when it's actually the budget of both films combined or something.

Also the source is some random doinks in a bar so

 

[fixxxer]

^

That sounds infinitely more plausible.

EDIT: Pun, um, not intended.

 

[The_Manhunter]

People keep acting like it's gonna be a combined 5 hours of the Avengers fighting one guy. That's not gonna happen.

It may not be the Black Order but they aren't gonna have an entire two-part movie saga where the Avengers fight one person.

Why not? It happened in Deathly Hallows.

 

[Snow Queen]

"Avengers: Infinity War - Part I and Part II will have a combined production budget of ONE BILLION DOLLARS"

That can't be right.

So, $500 million each, requiring $1 billion each film in box office gross just to break even, let alone make a profit. Sure. Sounds realistic.

 

[ernesth100]

We're gonna need a bigger Box Office.

Nah, but seriously thats just ludicrous when you stop and think. But if it is true, the Avengers films make a billion alone. And Marvel films rarely drop up 400 mill in the BO. So, it'd be pretty easy to make back.

 

[eddy]

Every day bleeding cool sound more and more like they're full of ****

 

[Lord]

Aren't the Avatar sequels going to cost a billion together too? Though those are some 3 films, i doubt Infinity War will be this expensive, sounds like a very exagerated number.

 

[Mike Murdock]

I think the number is very high no matter what, but I wonder that includes marketing costs (which still shouldn't make it that high, but would be more reasonable).

 

[ernesth100]

I'm thinkng regardless the Infinity War films will be some of the more expensive MCU films.

 

[MbJ]

Why not? It happened in Deathly Hallows.

Harry Potter is not the Avengers. Harry Potter is about Harry Potter. There might be some, but trust me, very few people were going to the movie just to see how Neville Longbottom fared against Lord Voldermort. When it comes down to it, the finale is about Harry, and everyone else is basically fodder.

The Avengers, by their nature, are an ensemble. And if the speculation is to be believed this is gonna be more heroes than we've ever seen before, many of whom are popular in their own rights. It's a crossover, not a solo movie. They're gonna give the other Avengers something to do.

 

[Mike5575]

Is it true that Marvel starts filming next year? If so, is anyone a little worried that Captain Marvel will only have a very small part if she shows up at all? I mean, Marvel hasn't even started on a script for the character, just some jibberish about how powerful she is.