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Stan Lee cameo: Peter Parker's school bus driver.
This movie is based on the comic book series called "The Infinity Gauntlet" published by Marvel Comics in 1991, but takes its name from the sequel comic book series called "The Infinity War", which has a sequel series called "The Infinity Crusade".
On March 1, 2018, as North America was approaching the May 5 release of the movie, Marvel Studios announced that this movie would release worldwide one week earlier, on April 27, 2018. The move comes from The Walt Disney Company's decision to let this movie have more time in the spotlight, before Disney and Lucasfilm released Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) on May 25, 2018.
This became the fourth movie to gross over $2 billion worldwide, after Avatar (2009), Titanic (1997), and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015).
There are close to 3,000 shots in this movie, with almost 2,900 of those being visual effects shots.
The filmmakers decided very early on to turn this movie into a "smash-and-grab heist movie" told from the viewpoint of the lead villain, Thanos.
As of the release of Thor: Ragnarok (2017), five of the six Infinity Stones have surfaced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Space Stone (also known as the Tesseract) was first revealed in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and now resides with Loki. The Mind Stone, which was housed in Loki's staff until Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), is now in the possession of Vision. The Power Stone, first seen in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), is on Xandar, under protection of the Nova Corps. The Reality Stone (also known as the Aether) was first seen in Thor: The Dark World (2013), and was placed in the care of The Collector. With the destruction of The Collector's Vault in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), its whereabouts are unclear. The fifth and final known stone, the Time Stone (also known as the Eye of Agamotto), was revealed in Doctor Strange (2016), and is under his protection in Kamar-Taj. The whereabouts of the sixth stone, the Soul Stone, is revealed by Gamora to Thanos in this movie to be on the planet Vormir.
The filmmakers had a phrase to describe characters meeting and interacting for the first time that they called "strange alchemy." The conflict of personalities between Tony Stark and Doctor Strange is a perfect example of this.
The new Iron Man suit is based on Bleeding Edge, and later, Model-Prime armors from the comic books, both of which which used nanotechnology to create a suit which is linked to Stark, and can also create weapons for him to use, such as a bigger gun, and stored away when not in use, which, for the movie, is inside Stark's new arc reactor on his chest as seen when he taps it with his hand.
Josh Brolin acted in this movie with a foam headpiece that was the size of Thanos' head, with a camera on his face for visual effects. He also had to wear various foam parts depending on what the scene called for so the other actors and actresses didn't get too close to his real body, and so Thanos' scale was retained.
The name "Thanos" is a short form of the Greek name "Thanatos", which means "death" in Greek. Appropriately, it is also the name of the Greek god of death.
Thanos' henchmen, known as "The Black Order", all have names, most of which are never used on-screen but have something to do with blackness or darkness. Cull Obsidian, the hammer-wielding giant, basically means "black death". Ebony Maw, Thanos' psychokinetic henchman and herald, roughly means "dark mouth". Proxima Midnight, the only female member, means "among the darkness"/"close to darkness". Lastly, Corvus Glaive, the hooded figure wielding a scepter, has the name of the constellation Corvus, depicting a raven. It's also the name for the genus of birds such as crows and ravens: black birds traditionally associated with death. So his name can be seen as black bird of death, and Glaive refers to his weapon, which grants him immortality, as long as it isn't destroyed.
Proxima Midnight, the female member of The Black Order, normally wears a black horned helmet in the comic books. This was changed to organic horns growing from her head, to avoid similarities with Hela's distinctive helmet in Thor: Ragnarok (2017).
Of the twenty-four characters visible on the main poster for this movie, twelve live and twelve die. This furthers the concept Thanos has within the movie of bringing balance by killing half the universe.
Thanos fulfills the promises he makes. *He spares Thor in exchange for Loki giving up the Space Stone. *He spares Nebula in exchange for Gamora revealing the location of the Soul Stone. *He spares Tony Stark in exchange for Doctor Strange giving him the Time Stone. All three promised lives survive "The Snap".
T'Challa calls Bucky Barnes "The White Wolf". In the comic books, The White Wolf is the alter ego of T'Challa's adopted older brother.
Sir Kenneth Branagh (who directed Thor (2011)) can be heard at the beginning of the movie issuing the distress transmission that the Asgardian ship was being attacked.
James Gunn revealed on Twitter on 4/30/2018 that the name of the Guardians' new ship in this movie is the Benatar.
Zoe Saldana is reunited with Star Trek villains Benedict Cumberbatch and Idris Elba in this movie. The role of Bruce Banner (Hulk), in the unrelated Hulk (2003), was played by Star Trek villain Eric Bana. Additionally, Chris Hemsworth appeared in Star Trek (2009) as Kirk's father, though he shared no scenes with Saldana.
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