The Avengers: Infinity War opens next week, and Marvel fans are in for a real treat!
According to Anthony Mackie, when he was sent his version of the Infinity War script, it featured the final fight scene at a whopping 25 pages long!
Screenplays basically feature a page as being a minute of the movie, so that means the final battle would be 25 minutes in length!
Mackie was surprised to say the least when he read it, and fired off some e-mails back to Marvel about it!
“I got 25 pages, which was the final fight sequence. And I sent a long email, like, ‘this movie is going to be awful, how does this work, there’s no story, this is gonna be the longest fight sequence ever,’” Mackie said.
The good news is that the 25 minute fight scene is only a small part of the movie.
“And they’re like ‘no, there are 250 other pages,’” Mackie said. “Oh, oh. Alright. Alright. It doesn’t get much better.”
Check out more from Anthony Mackie on Good Morning America, which includes a cool new clip:
An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Anthony and Joe Russo direct the film, which is produced by Kevin Feige. Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Michael Grillo and Stan Lee are the executive producers. Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely wrote the screenplay. “Avengers: Infinity War” releases in U.S. theaters on April 27, 2018.
