2012’s The Avengers kicked of the Marvel franchise with a robust 143 minute running time. Well, it looks like it’s only getting more robust from here. Age of Ultron (which opens Friday, as if you didn’t know) hasn’t even come out yet, but we now already know that there’s gonna be an extended cut with an alternate ending (not a Shawarma-like bonus scene, but a full-on alternate ending) that’s going to be included on the DVD/Blu-Ray.
Apparently, Joss Whedon’s original cut of the movie was three and a half hours long (so, an hour and 7 minutes longer than his first Avengers film), and they trimmed an hour off for the theatrical release, so this alternate ending likely has to do with that. So, even before we’ve seen Age of Ultron, we know there’s more coming.
And because the Avengers saga is getting to be too big to be contained, Infinity War, the next installment of Avengers film, is actually going to be two films. We already know that Infinity War is so huge it’s going to be released in two parts, in May 2018 and 2019 respectively, but lest you think that having Infinity War be a two-parter will mess with the quality of the films, we now know that both parts will be shot all at once, as if it were one film.
Comics Alliance reports on a recent statement made by Chris Evans about filming:
You know, you plan around the Marvel responsibilities. You have to. We start [Captain America: Civil War] in a couple weeks, and then that shoots until August or something like that. August or September. Then I’ve got some downtime and I can do with it as I please. I don’t know if I want to take time off or go pursue another directing job or find a movie to act in or, you know, do whatever I’m creatively inclined to pursue or wait, relax, enjoy my life. And then we start the Infinity War, I think, some time in the third quarter. Fall or winter of 2016. That’s going to be like nine months to shoot both movies back to back.
Well, I’m glad Evans and Co. will be getting some time off! Looks like the Avengers franchise is already full-to-bursting, and we haven’t even responded to Age of Ultron yet. Here’s hoping the films themselves live up to their own hype.
(via io9)
—Please make note of The Mary Sue’s general comment policy.—
Do you follow The Mary Sue on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, & Google +?
