With Captain America: Civil War in post-production and ready to hit its May release date, directors Anthony and Joe Russo have been around the country lately talking about the upcoming film and Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and 2 -- which they are also directing .
However, in a recent interview with Comicbook.com at New Orleans WizardWorld the question of how the movie will unite the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
But then in a later panel, the number of characters that will be in the cast of Avengers: Infinity War was brought up and the number 67 was said by the Russo brothers. But now the Russos are clarifying their 67 characters statement in an interview with Collider .
“We were being figurative when we said [67 characters] and people took it as literal but there’s a lot of characters. Infinity War is meant to be the culmination of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe up to that point. It’s very ambitious in its scope, it wants to take everything that you’ve seen before and coalesce into some kinda of climactic ending. It’s complicated , ambitious storytelling…We’re not talking about lead characters, just people that make an appearance.”
The Collider interview also revealed that Avengers: Infinity War will begin shooting in November and that they will be going back and forth between shooting Part 1 and 2.
It seemed that 67 was an overinflated number of characters, especially in a film, whereas past superhero team movies have shown, try to balance the amount of time each character has. If Marvel decides to combine the movies and television shows for Infinity War then that number may be closer to being true but 67, at first, seems too large.
So what do you think, how many characters will be in Avengers: Infinity War? Sound off in the comments section below.
