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Mr. Stark.
Captain.
KEVIN FEIGE: There is just something awesome about seeing these
different franchise heroes interacting with each other for the first time.
- BANNER: Who are you? - Natasha Romanoff.
The notion of seeing characters who you've grown to love in their own movies
walking into another movie for the first time,
there is just something that is satisfying.
(ROARING)
We haven't really seen that since the first Avengers.
Avengers: Age of Ultron introduced some new characters
within the body of that film.
Captain America: Civil War introduced Black Panther and Spider-Man.
Hey, everyone.
And then, here we are years later...
(WAKANDANS CHANTING IN XHOSA)
...doing Infinity War.
(ALL EXCLAIMS)
ROCKET: Wipers! Wipers!
Get it Off.
(ALL GASPS)
How the hell is this dude still alive?
He is not a dude.
You're a dude.
This... This is a man.
A handsome, muscular man.
I'm muscular.
We're doing something the fans have wanted from day one.
Who the hell are you guys?
Ever since the very beginning of getting the job as Drax in Guardians,
I was really wishing that the worlds would collide.
We like to combine things that don't seem like they belong together.
I feel your pain.
I feel your pain as well.
JOE: The exciting aspect of the film
is that we're gonna take all of these characters
from different franchises in the Marvel Universe
and we're gonna put them together.
Tony Stark.
I'm Doctor Stephen Strange. I need you to come with me.
I'm sorry, you giving out tickets to something?
The "Strange Alchemy" is a phrase that we came up with in the writers' room.
"Which characters can we put together that audiences are excited to see?"
What is your job exactly? Besides making balloon animals.
Protecting your reality.
"How do you combine all these different tones, all these different characters,
"and how do we balance it?"
What exactly is it that they do?
Kick names, take ass.
Yeah, that's right.
JOE: That's gonna create the most spark
because conflict between heroes can be entertaining.
- What are you doing? - Taking your pod.
(PETER CLEARS THROAT)
(IN DEEP VOICE) No, you're not.
You will not be taking our pod today, sir.
Are you making your voice deeper?
We had the opportunity to bring all of the Marvel Universe
practically together.
RHODES: You guys...
really look like crap.
TRAN: I think those small little character moments
are what makes Marvel movies so special.
- (GROWLS) - Where's your guy?
(GRUNTING)
Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the wizard.
T'CHALLA: Today, we don't fight for one life,
we fight for all of them.
JOE: So, the greatest test that these characters will ever face,
they can barely face it together.
DR. STRANGE: We're in the endgame now.
We are embarking on something
that is much bigger than we've ever embarked on before.
Where's the fight?
On its way.
It's a collaborative thing where you've got
that many people pooling their talent together.
That's really something to enjoy.
- I am Spider-Man. - Dr. Strange.
There was sort of a camaraderie between us.
They all make each other better in the scenes.
PETER: Who are you?
We're the Avengers, man.
THANOS: The end is near.
There's never been anything like this.
Ready?
Let's go.
FEIGE: It's fun putting people
who have no business being on the same planet together...
- This is a friend of mine. - (GRUNTING)
...much less, the same room together.
I am Groot.
I am Steve Rogers.
FEIGE: The amount of actors in this film is staggering.
- How much for the gun? - Not for sale.
Okay. How much for the arm?
Just look around. It's like, "Oh, wow.
"There's all this potential."
Thank you for standing with us.
Everybody knows this has all been leading to something. Well, this is it.
(SHOUTS IN XHOSA)
Everybody wants the characters uniting for a big battle.
PROXIMA MIDNIGHT: You'll die alone.
BLACK WIDOW: She's not alone.
That's why we make these movies.
That, to us, is the fun.
You're an Avenger now.
Wakanda forever!
GAMORA: The entire time I knew him, he only ever had one goal.
To bring balance to the universe
by wiping out half of all life.
He kills people planet by planet,
massacre by massacre.
Tell me his name again.
Thanos.
Thanos has been lurking in the shadows of our universe
since Avengers one.
We see a glimpse of him in Guardians of the Galaxy.
I will bathe the star ways in your blood.
FEIGE: We see a tiny glimpse of him at the end of Age of Ultron.
He has had his hand
in every action that has occurred on a grand level in the MCU,
all surrounding his desire to obtain these Infinity Stones.
Someone has been playing an intricate game and has made pawns of us.
GAMORA: If he gets all the Infinity Stones,
he can wipe out half the universe
with the snap of his fingers.
Just like that.
The Stones are spread out throughout the franchises.
We're building every one of them into this epic, colossal event.
STARK: So, this is it?
It's all been leading to this.
Josh Brolin is bringing a new iconic villain to life.
Thanos is a very complex character.
What he's doing, from his point of view, is a very positive thing.
He's basically an eco-terrorist,
and he wants to eliminate 50% of the universe to save the other 50%.
We wanted to tell a story about a character
with a really complex and empathetic interior life.
And there's not a lot of actors that can give you both of those things.
D'ESPOSITO: Josh Brolin brings a reality to the character.
He's wearing that mocap suit, he's wearing motion capture cameras.
The performance is coming through,
not only in his gestures, in his face, but in his eyes.
VICTORIA ALONSO: There's about 2,900 visual effects shots in the movie.
We wanted to make it as photographic as possible.
And I think that that's the most important part.
(SCREAMING)
Oh, my God.
MANTIS: What happened?
GAMORA: Death follows him like a shadow.
That's who Thanos is.
You seem to know a great deal about Thanos.
Gamora is the daughter of Thanos.
Infinity War reveals this whole new world
that Nebula and Gamora have been running away from for years.
GAMORA: Nebula!
THANOS: Some time ago, your sister snuck aboard this ship to kill me.
So I brought her here.
To talk.
His relationship with Gamora, it's quite emotional.
(SCREAMING)
I ignored my destiny once.
I cannot do that again.
Even for you.
D'ESPOSITO: What makes Thanos so great is his conviction.
This is the only solution.
He's seen it firsthand on his planet.
THANOS: Titan was like most planets.
And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution.
Genocide.
What I predicted came to pass.
Congratulations, you're a prophet.
I'm a survivor.
Tony knows just by the way that Bruce Banner describes Thanos,
it's a different game now.
BANNER: He sent Loki.
The attack on New York, that's him.
He has the biggest army in the universe, and he is not gonna stop.
Just his sheer force is something
that none of the Avengers has ever encountered before.
Thanos has been inside my head for six years.
So I say we take the fight to him.
JOE: Heroes are only as good as their villain,
but if the Avengers were built for anything,
it's for stopping Thanos from completing his goal.
THANOS: Fun really isn't something one considers when balancing the universe,
but this does put a smile on my face.
Oh, man.
(GRUNTS)
Thanos is the greatest villain
in the history of Marvel Cinematic Universe.
(SCREAMS)
The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
I think you'll find our will equal to yours.
(SCREAMS)
Imagine if our heroes all lost.
You should have gone for the head.
No!
The Marvel Cinematic Universe will never be the same.
Oh, God.
He did it.
What did it cost?
Everything.
Avengers 3 is by far and away the most intense of all three films.
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
Part of the reason why we were drawn to tell the story of Civil War
and one of the reasons why we thought
it was such a great place to leave the Avengers divided
was because we knew the greatest threat they would ever face
would be coming in Thanos.
For storytellers, you want your heroes to be at their lowest point
when they meet their worst threat.
The hardest choices require the strongest wills.
I think you'll find our will equal to yours.
JOE: This film was taking all the characters
from all the different franchises
and putting them together in one movie for the first time.
It's about as massive a production as you could mount.
We need a plan. If all we come at him with is plucky attitude...
Don't call us plucky.
We don't know what it means.
We were in production all year on Infinity War.
It's the largest global shoot we've ever had.
Joe and Anthony have the stamina to do two films, back-to-back.
It's very difficult.
- Moving on to a clean pass. - Okay, back to the other set.
Something this big isn't daunting to them.
And they're the perfect combination of structure and freedom.
Do what you want to do on this first take,
and then we'll start to tweak it from there.
The Russos elevated the franchise, even past its inception.
Who are you guys?
(ALL LAUGHING)
Sorry.
We spent a lot of time with Joe and Anthony, Markus and McFeely
creating storylines that really allow these characters their moments.
Action!
If he gets his hands on all six stones, Tony...
He could destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of.
Did you seriously just say "hitherto undreamt of"?
You really look at how all the characters interweave
into the main arc.
ANTHONY: The connective tissue that pulls our entire MCU together
is the fact that the Stones are spread out throughout the franchises.
JOE: The exciting aspect of the film is that
we're going to take all of these characters
from different franchises in the Marvel Universe
and we're going to put them together to stop Thanos from completing his goal.
It takes months to plan sequences like Titan.
Titan, we shot that exclusively on a sound stage.
DAN DeLEEUW: Beautiful set built by Charlie Wood,
our production designer.
There's green screen in the background.
All that extension will be from plates that we went to Chile and shot.
VICTORIA ALONSO: This entire movie is one big CG scene.
The environment is CG, the weapons are CG,
every shot is dense in layers.
We were pushing colors in both locations,
more green and yellows in Wakanda,
and more orange hues and red hues in Titan,
so that we could distinguish the two as you're intercutting them.
It was a constant challenge to see, how do we keep this photographic enough?
We wanted to have that apocalyptic look that both Joe and Anthony wanted.
That it was the end of an era.
Heroes are only as good as their villain.
And we spent a lot of time and energy on this one
making sure that Thanos was the most intense and the best villain
that the Marvel Universe has seen.
We had had an initial meeting, me and the Russos,
and it was incredibly helpful.
I felt like they cared deeply.
MATT AITKENI: Thanos is entirely digital,
so we have Josh Brolin performing him on stage.
SWEN GILLBERG: We record all the positions of all their joints,
and we record their motion.
We've dotted up his face, and basically those two cameras give us
a three-dimensional solid of his face in very fine detail.
The performance is coming through,
not only in his gestures and in his face, but in his eyes.
You're much more of a Thanos.
I take it the Maw is dead.
This day extracts a heavy toll.
The battle between Thanos and Dr. Strange,
that was all previz.
And the way we work through that
is probably that sequence was twice as long as it ended up in the movie,
so we shrunk it.
Once we agree on what that sequence is,
the only element that is missing from a sequence like that
is Benedict Cumberbatch.
We'll then go shoot Benedict Cumberbatch,
but everything else is already turned over to the VFX vendors,
so they can get to work on Thanos' side of it
and everything else around Dr. Strange.
You're full of tricks, wizard.
Action sequences are very difficult.
(GRUNTS)
Every action sequence is used to illuminate character,
who the character is, what they're made of.
You never once used your greatest weapon.
(STRAINING)
A fake.
Those battles usually start with either the stunt team or the VFX team.
Yes, sir!
We owe it to Sam Hargrave to create these amazing stunts for Titan.
We got a room full of movie stars.
We've got three franchise-carrying actors here.
This is our first day.
Here we are in Pinewood in Atlanta, and it's actually pretty unbelievable.
You can actually engage in this collaborative, creative conversation
about what should this look like.
We would show them our previz material
just to let them know, like, these are the certain things
that you would be working with to get to this final product.
It's going to look awesome when Chris does it.
(ALL CHUCKLES)
JOE: Every character, every hero involved
has to use the highest level of their power
just to stay on the battlefield with him.
The big two. Thanos versus Iron Man. This is the showdown.
This is what it's all about.
This is what the whole movie's leading up to right here.
We've got Robert Downey, Jr., Josh Brolin,
going hand-to-hand, right here!
THANOS: Stark.
How do you know my name?
I know your soul.
It is much like mine, cursed with knowledge.
My only curse is you.
Iron Man has been battling for six years now
the shadow of Thanos.
He has been waiting for this moment.
(PANTING)
All that for a drop of blood.
(GASPS)
We knew we were going to a place in the story
that audiences wouldn't expect.
And then I drive him back like this,
pin him down like that...
- Yes or no? - Yeah, I like it.
It was our intent in this movie to play against your expectations.
MAN: Action!
(GROANING)
You have my respect, Stark.
When I'm done, half of humanity will still be alive.
(G ROANS)
The movie sort of keeps twisting at the end there
in ways that you can't believe that it's going one step beyond,
and that the fate of our characters
and the fate of the universe are still at play.
Mr. Stark? I don't feel so good.
Peter Parker uses all of the strength that he has as a hero
to fight against disappearing.
You're all right. You're all right.
JOE: It allows him to last longer than some of the others.
The emotional experience that the characters are going through
as they experience that is where the power lies.
Please, I don't want to go. I don't want to go.
DOWNEY JR: The Russos realized how you had to bring it to the next level
and also have it have a great surprise.
(SOFTLY) I'm sorry.
D'ESPOSITO: Never seen our Avengers really lose,
and they lost, and it's quite emotional to see that.
Where is he?
MCFEELY: It's a big, epic movie,
and stakes are high, with characters that, hopefully,
because since 2008 you started to love these people,
you really care about.
And that's the grand experiment.
Did we just lose?
Rarely, especially in Avengers 3,
do commercial movies go to the place that this film goes to.
Quill?
Oh, man.
Why would you do that?
DR. STRANGE: We're in the endgame now.
You murdered half the planet.
A small price to pay for salvation.
JOE RUSSO: The level of ambition with Avengers 3 is unprecedented.
But that was the reason that we wanted to do it.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR: Infinity War is nuts.
The difficulty in executing it was so well thought out.
A lot of things have to kind of fit into place,
and that's just a tricky target to hit.
This is D-Day, man.
People don't understand what they're walking into with this movie.
This is not going to end well for a lot of people.
KAREN GILLAN: The stakes are very high,
and we are going to say goodbye to people.
The whole thing is just gigantic.
Through the experience of working with Markus and McFeely on Civil War,
we knew that there was a culmination coming.
But how do you combine all these different tones,
all these different characters?
And I think the way we end up balancing it
is we always try to ground it in an emotional truth for the character.
If we take out the stone...
there's still a whole lot of Vision left.
Perhaps the best parts.
Can we do that?
Not me, not here.
I know somewhere.
It felt like there's a lot of substance behind them coming to Wakanda.
We've seen Wakanda as a powerful nation,
but we've also seen it have to battle with itself.
And so being a part of this major moment for the Avengers,
it felt like very significant storylines merging.
ROGERS: Seems like I'm always thanking you for something.
I think the men really respect each other and have similar moral compasses,
and are eager to be there when the other person's in need.
He just happens to have a whole army.
Where's the fight?
On its way.
For our 19th movie, ten years in the making,
the Russo brothers really wanted to create this big, epic battle
that was worth the biggest, baddest villain and his army.
Probably the most physically challenging thing that we've ever clone
was execute that Wakanda sequence.
The scope is gigantic on this movie,
and it's the largest battle that we've ever done.
Thank you for standing with us.
(SPEAKS XHOSA)
(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)
We shot Wakanda in a practical location. It was a big ranch in Georgia
that we transformed into the fields of Wakanda.
DAN DeLEEUW: Working with the Russo brothers,
the main theme is, they want to keep everything grounded.
So art department's gone in and basically built a river
and has dressed in a lot of trees that are more indigenous to Africa.
Charlie Wood and his art department actually carved an artificial river
through the center of this field,
and we had a gigantic pump that could do like 30,000 gallons a minute.
It was very elaborate.
We want the scope to be huge.
So what we're doing is, we're using a set as the center of the war scene,
and then anything you see off in the distance we're actually replacing
with plates and textures from Africa itself.
We actually had to work in tandem with Ryan Coogler.
He and his team had maps of Wakanda. That was very helpful to us,
so that we could look at where we wanted to place the battle,
understand strategy.
So it's literally like doing a Jenga puzzle.
(CHANTING IN XHOSA)
The way the Russos work, they're willing to try different things.
There was a lot of input, and we could share how we would express ourselves,
what war cries we use as Wakandans.
We have another one that's more aggressive
Okay, what's that one?
It's mie effa, which means "win them."
Sie effa means "separate them." And theyjust go... (GRUNTING)
You get the actors involved,
and of course they know their characters better than anybody.
They have great input.
When you say it, it's the greatest "Wakanda forever" you've ever said,
because this could be it.
You know, it became sort of the cadence of the whole set.
People walking around saying, "Wakanda forever!"
Wakanda forever!
(ALL SHOUTING)
We're gonna clash the Wakandan army with the Outriders.
Where good meets evil, and they battle.
It was really amazing to see the vastness of the battlefield.
It made sense that this is the sort of battle that could end the universe.
You definitely kind of catch yourself looking around
and you have goosebumps.
We've got the Wakandan army,
so we have 70 extras here on set, and then stunt people.
We'll do digital versions of those, so we can create the art for those 70
to take them out to about 500.
Then we've got the Outriders, which are Thanos' beasts.
There's 10,000 of those.
(SNARLING)
VICTORIA ALONSO: There was a lot of thinking into the texture,
what they felt like, what they looked like, what the teeth looked like.
They had to pose a real threat.
(GRUNTS)
(ALIENS YELPING)
Why was she up there all this time?
A lot of our action is based around character decisions and moments.
Less punch/jab/cross/uppercut,
but it's more of the things
of, "What are you going to remember about the character?"
Combination attacks working together.
That's our goal, it's to give you moments and less choreography.
One of my favorite moments is when Proxima tells Scarlet Witch...
He'll die alone. As will you.
She's not alone.
In a real, real moment of threat,
there's two other women there, standing by each other.
- (YELLING) - (ALL GRUNTING)
It's really great to see that the audiences are embracing
really strong female superheroines.
That is one of the biggest cheer moments in the film.
(YELLS)
Coming into Infinity War, admittedly I was a little hesitant
because I just was so protective of what myself and Taika sort of built.
And I said, "Well, you know, it's not the old Thor anymore,"
and Joe said, "No, no, we know."
And Anthony said, "Yeah, we get it,
"but we've got something different in mind as well."
And they were right. They had a whole new version of it,
and one that was equally as enjoyable as that last Thor film.
New haircut?
Notice you've copied my beard.
Pretty good.
Evans was a bit off, but I think mine sounds good.
(LAUGHTER)
In Atlanta, you get days like this, which are amazing,
that just resonate what we're trying to get with Africa.
And other days you'll get the rain.
- (THUNDER RUMBLING) - MAN: Oh, God.
ALONSO: We had a lot of different weather issues.
We had rain, sun, fog, cold, heat. We had it all.
TRAN: The weather was one of the biggest challenges,
because it would just be pouring and there would be mud just sliding down
as we're trying to get our talent up to the field.
And it was incredible.
DeLEEUW: We do the best we can.
We try to cover actors for close-ups and shoot the close-ups,
and then hopefully the next day we get a shot, you know, a day without rain.
TRAN: So when Thanos shows up,
we really wanted to make this the most powerful moment ever.
Eyes up, stay sharp.
The movie sort of keeps twisting at the end there
in ways that you can't believe that it's going one step beyond,
and that the fate of our characters
and the fate of the universe are still at play.
(SCREAMS)
In terms of our choices
about who Thanos would end up eradicating with his snap,
it was very story focused.
How do we pay off each individual character's storyline most profoundly?
BUCKY: Steve?
The first person to go is Bucky Barnes,
and it's shot from Captain America's perspective.
You know, we're watching Cap go through the experience of watching him go away.
We're watching Okoye, whose number one mission it is
in life is to protect the king.
She watches the king go in front of her.
And to see those characters react in those situations
is very powerful and resonant.
Groot! No.
Oh, God.
The blip-out sequence, we had gathered the whole entire talent there
circled around our directors,
and basically revealed to them that morning of,
when they came on set, that that scene was happening,
that some of them were going to be, you know, disappearing.
The audience is so good at predicting stories
that even just the smallest clue can tell them where the film is going to go.
So we worked really hard to make sure
that none of the secrets of the film leaked.
TRAN: This, by far, has been the most top-secret movie
out of all of the previous 18 movies.
Did you do it?
Yes.
It's about as massive a production as you can mount.
6,000 crew members working on the movie, spread all over the world.
This was so brutally massive as a movie.
There's almost 3,000 shots in the film,
and there's about 2,900 visual effects shots.
So it's a puzzle. It's a difficult one.
No one has ever assembled a cast of this size and this caliber.
So it was a completely unique filmmaking experience for everybody involved.
FEIGE: Of all the films we've made,
Infinity War will have the greatest repercussions.
And, really, the only way this film could be made
is in the hands of Anthony and Joe Russo.
This production, it has been a daunting task.
But we always knew that they're the people for the job.
I can't imagine trying to tackle such a huge task.
But I had a lot of faith, not in just Kevin Feige and the people of Marvel,
but the Russos. They're batting a thousand in my opinion.
We thought on Civil War that we had 12 big cast members.
How are we going to deal with all these characters?
Compared to this movie, with over 30 cast.
But the Russos prove themselves,
and they're able to integrate all these characters together
in a seamless manner.
- The energy's perfect. - Yeah, right?
Besides being incredibly smart,
the Russos are very trusting and they are very kind to the crew.
ANTHONY: Okay, everybody give it up for Geoff Haley!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Joe and Anthony want to create a relationship as quickly as possible,
and that's what people respond to.
Last weekend were the Taurus World Stunt Awards,
and the team from Civil War did very well.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
The Russo brothers have brought some
extraordinary precision and complexity to the Marvel Universe.
They are extraordinary technicians.
They are making the biggest movie of all time,
with the biggest movie of all time right after it.
We've had a very strong collaboration
with Markus and McFeely over all four movies.
ANTHONY: It's a very organic process.
We sit there and we grab a character and we start to tell a story.
We love this work so much that we want real fidelity
to what it is that we think and believe about these characters,
and we really want that to translate.
I think, when you get to the end of these films,
you'll understand our point of view on life
and our point of view as filmmakers.
So making these movies,
it's been a very personal journey for us.
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