10 years and 19 films in, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has made a very compact universe with many creative outlets in director styles and tones. The multitude of heroes that have been introduced are now finally coming into a perfectly synced storyline for one big brawl with Thanos. Well, maybe not perfect. Even the most planned out and studio-pressed choices can never align the full 100% with creative differences from the independent movies and the identities they wish to keep. Even the pen-holders of the upcoming blockbuster film admit that there are inconsistencies in the MCU that they can’t fully fix.
Having tied in the big player movies with the likes of The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War and now Avengers: Infinity War, writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely can’t control the other children running out of their playground and mentioned confusion with the writing process of Infinity War. Speaking to ScreenRant, they briefly got onto the topic of how difficult it is to balance both studio approval and the limitation of getting just about everything affiliated to the long history of the previous films:
SR: You called Thanos an amoral philosopher, and I’m curious because I don’t think he’s literally talking to the Devil and you don’t need to confirm or deny that, but he’s not just going to be spouting his philosophy out. Can you say anything about who’s Thanos’ supporting cast? How did you crack that?
STEPHEN MCFEELY: Yes, you needed to make sure that he wasn’t just all by himself. It also means that he didn’t have the same scene over and over again as he went collecting stones and knocked people around. That’s how you get this sort of tapestry film where he has emissaries who are doing some of his work while he is doing a lot of his own heavy lifting.
SR: He at the end of Ant-Man or whatever said “Fine, I’ll do it myself.”
STEPHEN MCFEELY: It’s the end of Ultron.
SR: Ultron, sorry.
STEPHEN MCFEELY: Not our movie. *laughter*
CHRISTOPHER MARKUS: And we’ve all sat there and went, “What the hell is he talking about? Where was he when he did that?”
SR: There was also the other gauntlet in Guardians.
STEPHEN MCFEELY: Another delightful, delightful problem.
CHRISTOPHER MARKUS: Odin’s a bit of a showman. Thanos turns out to have quite a few people to talk to both on his side and not on his side. Weirdly I think he’s the most understandable guy in the movie sometimes.
This isn’t the only sort of plothole that’s hit our beloved cinematic universe. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hit a bit of a snag with its storytelling with earth getting attacked, and surely it won’t be a first for a series going on for this long. The next challenge for McFeely and Markus is going to just up the ante with Avengers 4, and we can only imagine how much more there is to fill out in between the releases of the other films in the line-up beforehand.
Avengers: Infinity War releases April 27th.
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