Avengers: Infinity War Concept Art Reveals Scrapped War Machine Fight Scene
Marvel Studios officially wrapped up the Infinity Saga with Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame and . The former two films were some of the best filmmaking we've gotten in the Avengers movies with Joe and Anthony Russo at the helm. Infinity War dropped the biggest cliffhanger as half of the characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe were turned into dust by the hands of Thanos. Some of the most exciting action pieces in the film were during the battle on Titan and in Wakanda. With all huge blockbusters, some ideas never make it into the shooting stage, and it turned out that there was an idea for War Machine (Don Cheadle) to fight Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive, remotely, during the battle in Endinburg. Marvel artist Phil Saunders revealed the concept art of the scrapped scene on his social media channels.
Saunders shared the Avengers: Infinity War concept art on Instagram with the caption: "Okay, yeah, it's been forever! Too many projects in the hopper that have blackouts on them, so I'm digging in the dustbin for unused concepts. This is one from #avengersinfinitywar, where #jamesrhodes is fighting the battle of Edinburgh remotely, with his #tonystark designed leg braces locked into a holographic control system for #warmachine mk4. #brucebanner would have been piloting #hulkbuster (design by @joshnizzi.art) in the battle against Proxima Midnight (courtesy of @jsmarantz and @adamwross) and Corvus Glaive (designed by @jsmarantz and @ianjoynerart) sadly the sequence was cut early on. Still it was fun to problem solve how to depict the overlap of the real and holographic action going on!" You can check out the concept art below!
During San Diego Comic-Con, the studio revealed that they will officially wrap up the new saga with two new Avengers movies, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars, and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige seems to think that the multiverse is fine in Jonathan Majors' hands. During the same interview, Feige revealed that the Kang the Conqueror actor is well suited for this role.
"It comes down to the cast and with Jonathan Majors, who I think took over the Hall H stage, you know, in the three minutes he was up there," Feige told us. "It's amazing, and I said to him there's nobody's shoulders I'd rather be putting the multiverse saga on than his. It's really impressive what Jonathan Majors is able to do and all the different incarnations, variants, if you will, of Kang that we will see him do. It's really pretty cool."
"What I love is that he's totally different from Thanos. That he is completely different. That it's not just how about there's a bigger purple guy with a helmet? That's not what Kang is. Kang is a very different type of villain and the fact that he is many, many different characters is what's most exciting and most differentiates him." The Marvel Studios President added.
The most recent Marvel Studios film to hit theaters was Thor: Love and Thunder. The film is being directed by Taika Waititi and will star Chris Hemsworth as the titular character, Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster/Mighty Thor, Russell Crowe as Zeus, Jaimie Alexander as Lady Sif, Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star Lord, Sean Gunn as Kraglin, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, Karen Gillan as Nebula and Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher. In addition to directing, Waititi will also be reprising his role as Korg. Thor: Love and Thunder is exclusively in theaters now!
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