
Since their early films, Marvel Studios had been preparing for an adaptation of Jim Starlin's 1991 Infinity Gauntlet comic by introducing the Infinity Stones as MacGuffins: the Space Stone as the Tesseract in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) the Mind Stone inside Loki's Scepter in The Avengers (2012) the Reality Stone as the Aether in Thor: The Dark World (2013) the Power Stone within the Orb in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and the Time Stone within the Eye of Agamotto in Doctor Strange (2016). Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, Method Studios, Weta Digital, DNEG, Cinesite, Digital Domain, Rise, Lola VFX, Perception, Cantina Creative, Capital T, Technicolor VFX, and Territory Studio were the visual effects companies to work on the films.Īvengers: Infinity War was released on April 27, 2018, and Avengers: Endgame was released on April 26, 2019, both part of Phase Three of the MCU.

They are the first Hollywood films to be shot entirely in digital IMAX, using a new camera developed alongside Arri. Filming of Avengers: Endgame began on Augand concluded on January 11, 2018, with additional filming in the Downtown and Metro Atlanta areas, New York state, Scotland, and England. Production of Infinity War began on January 23, and concluded on July 14, 2017, with additional filming in Scotland, the Downtown Atlanta area, and New York City. They were designed as a conclusion to the storyline told in all the MCU films up to that point.īoth films were shot back-to-back at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia. The films were renamed because they were intended to tell two different stories. In July 2016, Marvel revealed that the films were being renamed: the first part became known simply as Avengers: Infinity War, while the second part's title was revealed as Avengers: Endgame in December 2018. The Russo brothers and Markus and McFeely joined the project in early 2015.

signing on to reprise his role as Tony Stark / Iron Man, with the films officially announced a year later as Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1 and Part 2. Casting began in mid-2013 with Robert Downey Jr. Both films are directed by Anthony and Joe Russo from screenplays by the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and feature an ensemble cast composed of many previous MCU actors.ĭevelopment of the films began in Marvel Studios' early films by introducing the Infinity Stones and the Infinity Gauntlet as plot devices.

They are the sequels to Marvel's The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and serve as the 19th and 22nd films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), respectively. April 27, 2018 ( ) ( Avengers: Infinity War)Īvengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame are American superhero films based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
