Author: Germain Lussier / Source: io9
In the three months since its release, Avengers: Infinity War has become a staple of pop culture dialogue. Thanos, his snap, and the jokes are already integrated into our everyday lives. So you’re probably wondering, is there really more we can learn about this massively successful movie?
It turns out the answer is a very big yes.Avengers: Infinity War is out on digital download today with the physical disc just two weeks behind on August 14. It comes with about 30 minutes of featurettes, 10 minutes of deleted scenes, a gag reel, and a commentary track featuring directors Joe and Anthony Russo along with writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. And while we obviously recommend you explore all of it for yourself, we took a deep dive and came back with a ton of new facts and behind-the-scenes nuggets about the making of this epic film.
• About 6,000 people worked on Infinity War and the film has about 3,000 shots in it. Of those, about 2,900 have visual effects.
• Thor director Kenneth Branagh does the voice of the distress call at the beginning of the film.
• Markus and McFeely began writing the script for Infinity War in January 2016, which was before a script for Thor: Ragnarok existed. So the idea to start this film where that film ended came much later in the process. There were a lot of different ideas of how to begin Infinity War before that.
• The fact the Tesseract, the first Infinity Stone revealed in the MCU and so important to Phase One, is so easily destroyed in the first scene of this movie was very purposefully done to set the stakes.
Same with the deaths of Loki and Heimdall.• The directors confirmed that several people, including Valkyrie, escaped the Asgardian ship before the film begins. They wouldn’t confirm if Ragnarok’s revolutionary Korg was among them, though.
• Wong’s line “I wouldn’t say no to a tuna melt” was in every single draft of the script.
• The scene of Tony and Pepper talking in the park was originally longer, and Happy Hogan, played by Jon Favreau, was in it. He drove in on a golf cart to yell at them because he’s trying to keep paparazzi away. The full scene is on the home release.
• Some early drafts of the script included a scene of Thanos collecting the Power Stone from Xandar, planet of the Nova Corps. seen in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Originally, Nebula was going to encounter Thanos there, until the filmmakers decided audiences didn’t need to see Thanos getting every single stone, since it would be repetitive and besides, his victory was inevitable. So Gamora met her father figure on Knowhere instead.
• There are a lot of Raiders of the Lost Ark winks in the movie, the first being the moment Maw’s hand is burned when he tries to grab the Time Stone off Doctor Strange.
• Neither of the directors or the writers is sure exactly how much time passes from the events at the beginning of the movie to the end, but they guess about two days.
• The scenes with Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy were shot early on and had about 15 minutes of additional jokes.
• Vision and Scarlet Witch’s scenes were shot on location in Edinburgh, Scotland because they felt it was a place that could go from romantic to scary very quickly.
• Some drafts of the film had backstories for members of the Black Order, but they all got cut. The only remnant is that Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive, believed to be married, are together throughout the movie.
• Everyone wanted Steve Rogers’ entrance to be as late in the film as possible. At one…
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