With just 36 days and counting left untilInfinity Warhits theaters, new details are still surfacing from set visit coverage that starting rolling out last week. One of the many questions fans have about this Phase 3 superhero adventure is how much time is spent on Earth, and how much is spent in the cosmos, a fair query since practically every MCU character is said to be present in this movie.Writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeelywere asked this very question on set, with McFeely hinting that there is a rather even split between Earth and the cosmos.
“We can’t give you a percentage but it’s fairly split. That’s part of the nature of all these groups coming together.”
This naturally adds to theepic scope of the film, with characters like theGuardians of the Galaxymeeting others from other realms such as Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who were last seen in the post-credits scene ofThor: Ragnarokas their ship was approached by another, confirmed later by Kevin Feige to be Thanos' ship known as Sanctuary II. The first trailer forAvengers: Infinity Waralso featured Thor meeting the Guardians for the first time, so it’s possible that they help Thor escape from Thanos' clutches, but that has yet to be confirmed. The writers did reveal that they wanted to set the stage for something so massive that not only theAvengers, but everyone in the MCU simply had to come together to face Thanos. Here’s what Christopher Markus had to say about the stakes in the movie, which spans the entire globe, not just America.
“We wanted to give it, not have it be the feeling that it all comes down to Earth every time. It’s this sort of ‘Earth-ist’ point-of-view that you have to tell. We needed a broad canvas the whole time, so that it didn’t feel like, coincidentally, every stone is on, is in America.”
Earlier this week, we showed youEmpire Magazine coversthat featured a number of MCU characters together, while theAvengers: Infinity Wartrailer teased some unusual pairings, like the introduction of Spider-Man (Tom Holland) and Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch). Christopher Markus revealed that while the tone of the movie is quite serious, with massive stakes, these unusual team-ups will help bring some levity to the story. Here’s what Markus had to say about how they approached the humor in this movie.
“Sometimes you play into it. Youcut to the Guardiansand it’s a breather. If you’re going from T’Challa and Captain America being very intense, you cut to Quill and Drax and it’s like, sigh. It doesn’t mean they’re not carrying as much plot, it just means the tone is different.”
The writers previously wrote all three of theCaptain Americamovies, 2011’sCaptain America: The First Avenger, 2014’sCaptain America: The Winter Soldierand 2016’sCaptain America: Civil War. They also wroteAvengers 4, whichcloses out Marvel Phase 3when it hits theaters on August 01, 2025. The writers made these revelations during an on-set interview withComicBook.com.
