Avengers: Infinity War - Everything We Know So Far
1. It's Not A 'Part 1' And Will Not Be Shot Concurrently With Its Sequel
When originally announced, Avengers 3 and 4 were titled "Infinity War - Part I" and "Infinity War - Part II", with a year in-between each release.
And while the release dates haven't changed, each film is no longer one individual half of a larger story - the first film is called Avengers: Infinity War, and the second has yet to receive a title (probably because it's an Infinity War spoiler!).
Additionally, both films were originally going to be shot concurrently - i.e. on day one, the crew could be filming a scene from Avengers 4, but on day two they could be shooting a scene from Avengers 3.
This is no longer the case; each film will be shot individually, back-to-back with each other. Infinity War started filming in January and will wrap this summer, before Avengers 4 heads into production in August. That's according to Kevin Feige, who explained this altered filming schedule to Collider:
“We’re doing them one right after another… It became too complicated to cross-board them like that, and we found ourselves—again, something would always pay the price. We wanted to be able to focus and shoot one movie and then focus and shoot another movie.”
Directors Joe and Anthony Russo also explained the reasoning behind changing the titles - namely, the removal of "Part I" and "Part 2" - while speaking to Uproxx:
“The movies are two very different movies. It is misleading [to call them Part I and Part II]. 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.”
So, Avengers: Infinity War should tell its own self-contained story, with a beginning, middle and end, without finishing on a cliffhanger or "tune in next time!" bait-ending.
Will there be links between the two movies? Of course. But they won't be linked to such a degree that one doesn't make sense without the other, and that's a good thing.
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