The ship flies off as we cut to an outside shot of Asgard, the ship departing from the Realm, as the planet containing Asgard slowly disintegrates from the Power Thanos showed. Using the Power Stone, Thanos destroys the facsimile, causing purple cracks to begin to appear in the floor around them. When asked by the Maw about the Soul Stone, Thanos is quiet, he merely enters a room in the Asgardian palace, seeing a facsimile of the World Tree Yggdrasil there. He orders the three to retrieve the other two Infinity Stones there, and await his arrival. He tells the other three to head for Earth: with Odin's death and Asgard's destruction, the Veil of the Nine Realms will fall and Earth will be vulnerable. Thanos explains that he has sent Nebula ahead to retrieve the Tesseract, while he orders the Maw to accompany him to their next destination. The Mad Titan chucks the body to the side as the Black Order, Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian approach him. Odin again reiterates that Thanos will never be a God, before he dies in Thanos' hands. Odin charges at Thanos, drawing a sword from his hilt, but Thanos merely catches the Allfather in his hands and lifts him by the throat. Thanos then blasts the Destroyer, melting it down into slag with little effort. While dealing with the wild horse, Odin directs the rebuilt Destroyer Armor to fire at Thanos at near point blank range, engulfing the Mad Titan in smoke and ash.Īt first it seems as if the blast has worked, until the smoke clears and Odin is dismayed to see Thanos standing there behind a shield constructed from the Power Stone, virtually unharmed. Odin tries to get him to say that reason, but Thanos merely smiles.until Odin yells out Now and launches his trusty steed, Slepinir, at Thanos as a brief distraction. But he needs Odin dead for another reason. Thanos nonchalantly says that his daughter will find it for him. Odin barely stands, still mocking Thanos, saying he will never find the Tesseract. Thanos fights him briefly, eventually taking Gunginir and easily snapping it into two pieces. He also condemns Thanos' quest, saying he will never be the equal of that which he claims to love. Odin says he never thought himself a God, merely long-lived. Thanos speaks of Odin's failures to prevent this day, and about the inevitability of Death coming to all, even those who think themselves a god.
The camera pans up and sees Thanos and His Infinity Gauntlet, the Power Stone glowing bright purple. We see Odin, the Allfather, bleeding from the face and slowly crawling his way back to his feet, leaning heavily on the spear Gunginir. The realm is torn asunder, both from the recent incursion of Surtur and the Battle of Ragnarok, but also from the arrival of Thanos and his Black Order. We open on the Marvel Studios logo and an ominous sounding background music, as we fade in on the near ruins of Asgard. It was the longest filming production in Marvel's history to that point.
Directors Anthony & Joe Russo, following their success with both The Winter Soldier and Civil War, were tapped to direct the two Avengers films, after Joss Whedon left following Age of Ultron.įilming began in June of 2017, and would continue off and on throughout the remainder of the year, with early filming wrapping in January of 2018, due to the large number of different schedules that needed to be met. Despite this, the tone for both films was viewed as "radically different".
In 2014 it was announced that Infinity War would in fact be two films shot back to back (with the second part later being retitled Infinity Gauntlet), and that Part 2 of the story would serve as the first film in Phase 4 of the MCU. Marvel Studios president Kevin Fiege intended for Infinity War to be the "epic of all epics" and that it would feature virtually every major character seen in the first three Phases of the MCU.
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Thanos was introduced at the end of The Avengers in a post-credits scene (though he and the Infinity Stones were first set up by the first Thor movie the year prior), played by Josh Brolin in motion capture rather than elaborate makeup. Ever since The Avengers capped off Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, plans were put into motion to adapt the Infinity Gauntlet and Infinity War stories into the MCU.