Infinity War: Thanos 'Snap' Scene Was Originally in Avengers 4

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Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely , screenwriters ofAvengers : Infinity War , have disclose that the film’scliffhanger endingwas almost very different . In fact , the iconic view in which Thanos snaps his fingers , erasing half the biography in the universe , was ab initio save forAvengers 4 .

eternity Warreinvented the Mad Titan , remove Thanos ’s obsession with death and substitute it with an insane desire to " rebalance the creation . " The Thanos of the MCU believe that the population has finite resources , and that uncontrolled population growth will ultimately bring an closing to all liveliness . His proposed answer is to expend the Infinity Gauntlet to erase half the lifetime in the universe - and , in a shocking plait , the cliffhanger ending ofInfinity Waractually sees him attain his end .

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Speaking toThe New York Times , screenwriter Markus and McFeely revealed that in one of the early drafts of the script , the " snap fastener " was actually reserve for the opening scenes ofAvengers 4 . It sounds as though the first film would have in the beginning ended with Thanos win the last Infinity Stone , with watcher left to speculate what happened next . As Markus explained , " What we realise is , it would feel more like a cliffhanger than we intend . " That would have meantAvengers 4became " a continuation of on the dot what you were watching before , " but the film writer want the moving-picture show to feel like separate entity in their own right . Thus the snap became the tragic end ofInfinity War , withAvengers 4presumably research the cosmic repercussion of Thanos ’s action .

It ’s interesting to see just how much the screenwriter need these films to feel disjoined from one another . While there ’s distinctly go to be a pronounced story link betweenAvengers : Infinity WarandAvengers 4 , Marvel no longer envision the film as " Part I " and " Part II . " While that was the original programme back when Marvel announced their Phase 3 slating , that has unquestionably modify .

The screenwriter are clearly delighted with the finished product . As McFeely explain , because the first film terminate with the snap , " it ’s really , I think , difficult to forebode where we go next . " He ’s certainly right ; while set photo have suggestedAvengers 4is some sort oftime - travelfilm , the reality is that the grounds for the time - change of location is still unexplained . It ’s even possiblethe distance - time continuum is collapsing in upon itselfin the backwash of Thanos ’s genocidal action . Whatever the truth may be , we can be surefooted the " snap " will either be undone or avert ; many of the characters killed off are confirmed to appear in their own sequels .

That means the stagecoach is sic for a rematch . Infinity Warpromised that Thanos will give , and he ’ll presumptively traverse route with Earth ’s surviving heroes . It ’s time for the unrestrained Titan to take why they ’re called the Avengers . As Tony Stark warn Loki inThe Avengers , " If we ca n’t protect the Earth , you’re able to be bloody well certain we ’ll avenge it . "