![]() “You’re spending two-and-a-half hours with this many characters, so then adding in some character that the audience has no relationship to, having to explain the backstory of that character, making you care about that character, making Thanos care about that character, making that character interesting to the other characters … ” He trailed off, shaking his head. “It’s our responsibility to carry forward the story as it’s been set out,” said Anthony Russo. “I bought the original issues of Starlin’s run when I was younger, and anything you loved as a child or a teenager has an emotional resonance with you for the rest of your life, so these stories mean a lot to us.” Still, they couldn’t completely square Thanos’s comic-book story line with the tone set by the previous 18 movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the Russos worried that the time spent introducing Lady Death - a bizarre metaphysical character who often takes the form of a mute, sexy skeleton in Grim Reaper robes - would be better spent on the movie’s primary villain and vast cast of heroes. “Look, we’re enormous comic-book fans,” said Anthony Russo. The big-screen Thanos still aspires to kill off half the universe, but this time around, he merely wants to solve an overpopulation crisis instead of using mass murder as foreplay. “We did spend a good few days talking about it before we let it go,” said Joe Russo, who co-directed Avengers: Infinity War with his brother Anthony. ![]() The makers of Avengers: Infinity War may have tweaked Thanos and his goals for the sake of their story, but in the initial blue-sky brainstorming of the movie’s plot, the Mad Titan’s lovesick genocide was still on the table. ![]() We’ve seen most of these machinations before in the movies, so when Marvel announced that Avengers: Infinity War would install Thanos (Josh Brolin) as the main baddie, fans wondered if his unusual comic-book motivation would survive the leap to the big screen: As conceived by comic-book writer Jim Starlin, Thanos only wants to kill off half the universe to impress a feminine manifestation of death itself. ![]() Perhaps there’s a revenge plot afoot, or an evil empire to defend. ![]() Maybe the bad guy wants to take over the world, or get his hands on a stolen fortune. When it comes down to it, there are only a finite amount of villainous schemes. ![]()
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