Since its announcement, Marvelโs upcoming film Avengers: Infinity War was scheduled to be two separate movies. But now Marvel has said that there will beย a change ofย the movieโs title. This change now suggests that Infinity War will be one, single film and the second one will be titled something completely different. Though Marvelย is still planning to release the two Avengers films in 2018 and 2019, they areย no longer going to be twoย parts of the same story.
The first film will still be calledย Avengers: Infinity War,ย butย the second movie has been leftย untitled for now andย willย no longer to be known asย Infinity War Part II.ย We can expect Infinity War to hit theaters on May 4, 2018, and the ‘Untitled Avengers’ filmย to follow a year later on May 3, 2019. Both of the films will be directed by the Russo brothers, Joe and Anthony, who also directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War.
For now, it is unclear what this big change will mean for the filmsโ story lines. Although they will be obviously disconnected from each other now, like all movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we can expect that thereย will be a common thread that connects them, and it will be interesting to see what that thread will be, especially considering this will be the seventh film in Phase Three.
It is no secret that two-part movies have been overused in Hollywood, and we have all been beat over the head with them one too many times. From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowsย (which was actually a necessary two-part film), to The Hunger Games andย Divergent, two-parters are becoming too-tiresome and more often than not the second part falls flat and is unjustified in its creation in the first place. Changing Infinity War to a single filmย could be a good move on Marvel’s part.
